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The twenty first of July. --On the 21st of July, 1403, the great battle of Shrewsbury took place between Henry IV. and Henry Percy, in which several earls, 2,300 gentleman, and 6,000 privates were slain. On the 21st of July, 1798 the battle of the Pyramids in Egypt. The French, under Bonaparte, met Murad and twenty two other Boys, defeated them, took forty cannon and all the baggage and provisions of the enemy. Calip surrendered to him, and the whole of Lower Egypt showed before the prowess of his arms On the 21st of July, 1861. the army of the Southern Confederacy met the United States army at Stone Bridge, in Virginia, and gained a signal victory, slaughtering the enemy most frightfully.
unes of war promise soon to place that Capital in the hands of the South. Its splendid mansions, its marble temples and gilded edifices will then be safer from harm, much safer from pollution, than they were while in the hands of the unkempt and unwashed brutes who have lately had their quarters in their halls and corridors; but they are to be blown up at the approach of our soldiers, by the very men who have been preaching the duty of protecting them to their minions. The battle of Stone Bridge was a great event, as great as any that ever happened from the collision of armies. But it is to be succeeded by a political event even more important. We are now to test the nerves of the President of the Scotch cap and grey coat, and of the Cabinet who were to make a breakfast of the South, and a dinner of England and France. We are to try the pluck of Senators who have been using such great words in debate, and placing such valiant votes upon the records of Congress for three weeks
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One of the Connecticut boys. --The letters which the Yankees left behind them in their flight from Stone Bridge afford some indication of the moral, religious and political sentiment of the Northern people. We have seen several, among which is one addressed to one of the Connecticut boys, from which we copy a few words:"There is no news here at present, except that ex-Gov. Seymour has turned traitor, with eighteen others in the Legislature. Why, William, there is more damned traitors here than there is in the South!"
The Eighth Georgia Regiment in the battle at Stone Bridge. The following graphic description of scenes on the battle-field, and the gallant conduct of the Eight Georgia Regiment, was written for the Dispatch by a gentleman who participated in the fierce conflict of the 21st of July: Eighth Georgia Regiment. On Thursday, the 18th inst., about 2 P. M., this Regiment left Winchester for Manassas, under command of Lieut. Colonel Montgomery Gardner. Colonel Bartow had been for some weeks acting Brigadier General of a Brigade, consisting of the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 21th Georgia Regiments, and a battalion of Kentuckians. The 8th marched 27 miles over the mountains, fording the Shenandoah, to Piedmont on the Manassas Gap Railroad, arriving there about 12 M., Friday. The march was fatiguing in the extreme. After a delay of a few hours they left for Manassas on the cars, and a slow, tedious ride brought them to this point late Saturday morning. They marched three and a half m