A New York correspondent writes:
“Among the mementoes brought here from the battle field of
Manassas, is the skull of a New York Fire Zouave, which was picked up in an old
hut near Bull Run. A blow back [of] the
right ear had shattered the skull nearly in two. It has evidently been the property of some
rebel, who has taken great pains to keep it in good condition, it having been
polished and whitened. On it is the
following inscription, written in ink.”
“Skull of a New York Fire Zouave, killed July 21st, 1861, at
the battle of Manassas Plains.”
“Sic Semper Tyranus.”
A correspondent of the Pittsburg Gazette at Washington,
writes:
“A friend who spent nearly all of the last week at Manassas,
and in the vicinity, came back yesterday loaded with relics of the ill-fated
field of Bull Run, and some of the debris
of headquarters. He has a rare collection
of letters in all styles of orthography, except the correct. One letter was from a lady to her friend,
thanking him for the gift he had sent her, and which had arrived safely at hand
– in South Carolina. Now, gentle reader,
you who may perchance permit your eye to read upon this line, what think you
was this gift? Imagine this fair
daughter of ‘Caroleena’ [illegible]ing to her fairy bower, ’neath the dark magnolia,
in the shade of her orange grove, fanned by her dusky slave, while she snatches
from the letter of her champion, ‘gone to the wars,’ his gift of love! Precious token of his affection! What was it?
A part of a dead man’s finger! Or in the language of the letter, ‘a bone
from a Yankee’s finger!’”
What facts the rebels are putting into the head of Sumner to
illustrate his theory of the barbarism of slavery.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 5, 1862, p. 2
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