JUNE 2d.\u2014Great indignation is expressed by the generals in the field at the tales told of the heroism of the amateur fighters. They say _____ stripped a dead colonel, and was never in reach of the enemy\u2019s guns. Moreover, the civilians in arms kept at such a distance from danger that their balls fell among our own men, and wounded some of them! An order has been issued by one of the major-generals, that hereafter any stragglers on the field of battle shall be shot. No civilians are to be permitted to be there at all, unless they go into the ranks.<\/p>\n
Gen. Johnston is wounded\u2014badly wounded, but not mortally. It is his misfortune to be wounded in almost every battle he fights. Nevertheless, he has gained a glorious victory. Our loss in killed and wounded will not exceed 5000; while the enemy\u2019s killed, wounded, and prisoners will not fall short of 13,000. They lost, besides, many guns, tents, and stores\u2014all wrung from them at the point of the bayonet, and in spite of their formidable abattis. Prisoners taken on the field say: “The Southern soldiers would charge into hell if there was a battery before them\u2014and they would take it from a legion of devils!\u201d The moral effect of this victory must be great. The enemy have been taught that none of the engines of destruction that can be wielded against us, will prevent us from taking their batteries ; and so, hereafter, when we charge upon them, they might as well run away from their own guns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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