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9th said: It is in no invidious spirit that the Mississippi Volunteers are selected for a public demonstration, as they are neighbors and friends, and, as it were, a part of us. The Mississippians bring here their Colonel and Lieutenant-Colonel, maimed and pierced with honorable wounds; but Davis and McClung yet live to cheer their hearts and received with them the reward of daring and brilliant actions. Colonel McKee and Lieutenant-Colonel Clay (Second Kentucky) came not at all. In the Picayune of June 11th I find this notice of the ceremonies: Yesterday was a day devoted by our citizens to the reward of patriotism and heroic deeds. It was a day appointed to receive men who had voluntarily left their homes to meet the public enemy, and had gallantly discharged the high duty they had assumed. To attempt to describe the enthusiasm evinced on this occasion was in vain. A committee of reception had arranged a royal welcome for them. The volunteers debarked amid an immense crowd,

The American Eagle quails before the British Lion, and Ichabod is written on the folds of the Star Spangled Banner. Six months of the year I have spent on the tented field, and while it has been of very great benefit to me physically, I fear that I have suffered loss, mentally, morally, and spiritually. But the sacrifice is made upon the altar of my country. Confederate privateersmen. Letter from President Jefferson Davis. Beauvior, Harrison Co., Miss., June 21 1882. The Picayune of yesterday, in its column of Personal and General Notes, has the following: General William Raymond Lee, of Boston, carries in his pocketbook a little slip of paper bearing the single word Death. It is the ballot he drew, when a prisoner of war in a jail at Richmond, when he and two others were chosen by lot to be hanged, in retaliation for the sentencing to death of certain Confederate officers charged with piracy. The sentence of the pirates was happily commuted, and General Le

Confederate privateersmen. Letter from President Jefferson Davis. Beauvior, Harrison Co., Miss., June 21 1882. The Picayune of yesterday, in its column of Personal and General Notes, has the following: General William Raymond Lee, of Boston, carries in his pocketbook a little slip of paper bearing the single word Death. It is the ballot he drew, when a prisoner of war in a jail at Richmond, when he and two others were chosen by lot to be hanged, in retaliation for the sentencing to death of certain Confederate officers charged with piracy. The sentence of the pirates was happily commuted, and General Lee and his comrades were subsequently exchanged. During the war a persistent effort was made to misrepresent our cause, and its defenders, by the use of inappropriate terms. Our privateers were called pirates, our cruisers were called privateers, and Admiral Semmes, though regularly commissioned, was sometimes called a pirate, by Northern officials and writers

The battle of Frazier's Farm, [from the New Orleans, La., Picayune, February 19, 1893.] June 29th, 1892. the part taken Therein by Louisiana troops. A paper read before the Louisiana Association of the army of Northern Virginia, February 18, 1893, by Captain John W. T. Leech, Company C, Fourteenth regiment, Louisiana infantry, Confederate States army. Comrades of the Army of Northern Virginia. In writing of the thrilling events which took place around the city of Richmond in 1862, you will bear in mind that thirty-one years have rolled by and that a man's memory, however good, must necessarily have forgotten many things which would prove very interesting if they could be recalled. But the truth of the matter is, I am growing old, and those scenes are rapidly fading away. I wore the gray then, and as the battle of life progresses I am wearing more gray, and this will continue on until that arch enemy of mankind will flank me out of every position and compel a f

Battle echoes from Shiloh. [from the New Orleans, La., Picayune, October 1, 1893.] Misty traditions that Fade before the lights of history. Veterans who fight their battles over again at Jolly Reunions—The narrative Northern and the narrative Southern—Battery a, of the Chicago Light Artillery, and the Fifth Company of the Washington Artillery, of Louisiana. The Picayune of Sunday, September 17, 1893, under the heading of The Northern Narrative, published an extract from the ChicagPicayune of Sunday, September 17, 1893, under the heading of The Northern Narrative, published an extract from the Chicago Evening Post, giving an account of the annual reunion of the Chicago Light Artillery, Battery A, First Illinois Artillery. As at all reunions of old soldiers, a high old time was had, and battles were fought over and discussed with infinite enjoyment. On this occasion, it appears, the Washington Artillery, of New Orleans, came in for a good share of remembrance, for the account says: The boys have plenty to talk about as they get to recalling old times. They discussed their famou