The Daily Dispatch: May 30, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Our Glorious Soldiers.

An intelligent gentleman, who was an eye witness of the late battle near Fredericksburg, says that highly as the efficiency of Gen. Lee's army had been extolled, nothing he had heard came up to the impression produced on his mind by his own observation of their conduct. Their deeds of valor were not only magnificent beyond all conception, but the cheerfulness with which, after being for a great part of the day involved in the most terrific peril, they would, as soon as successful, march for miles to some new scene of danger, was absolutely marvellous. Their conduct when wounded was even more admirable.--Our informant has seen groups of the wounded standing around a well, each waiting patiently his turn for water, bleeding, dusty, weak in body, yet as humble, modest, and unpretending as so many children. Wonderful men! What age or country has produced such? Such lions in battle, and yet so unconscious of their own greatness! Such are the rank and file of the Southern army, men whom it is an honor to live in the same age with.