Napoleon guns, one 12-pounder field howitzer, six 10-pounder rifle Parrots, two 2O-pounder rifle Parrots, one 10-pounder rifle Parrot, one 24-pounder field howitzer, one 12-pounder caisson, one 10-pounder caisson, one 6-pounder caisson, one 10-pounder Parrot caisson, one 12-pounder Parrot caisson, one 24-pounder Parrot caisson, one 10-pounder Parrot caisson, one 12-pounder Parrot caisson, and thousands of small arms.
This is a pretty good showing, and it looks as if there had been some desperate fighting on that battlefield.
General Longstreet in his report says: "The odds against us on this field were probably greater than on any other."
Comrades, a few words more and I will close. I am proud of the old Fourteenth, and justly so; it was as good a regiment as ever struck a blow for Dixie.
Comrades, I will name six regiments that met with the greatest number of casualties in the seven days' battles around Richmond:
Killed, wounded and missing: The Twentieth North Carolina, Garland's Brigade, 380; Forty-fourth Georgia, Ripley's Brigade, 335; Fourteenth Alabama, Pryor's Brigade, 335; Nineteenth Mississippi, Featherston's Brigade, 325; Fourth Texas, Hood's Brigade, 253; Fourteenth Louisiana, Pryor's Brigade, 243.
After thanking Comrade Leech for his interesting paper, the meeting adjourned.
[From the Atlanta Constitution, November, 1893.]
THE SHENANDOAH.
Her Exploits in the Pacific Ocean, After the Struggle of 1861-'5
Had Closed.
Dr. F. J, McNulty, of 706 Huntington avenue, Boston, was one of the officers of the Confederate warship Shenandoah, which, on the 5th of November, 1865, flung to the breeze for the last time the Stars and Bars.
Asked by the writer of this article to relate the story of the cruise of the Shenandoah and of the last wave of the Southern flag a few days since, the Doctor told this thrilling tale of the last terror of the
