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Confederate Humanity An Incident. By Rev. HENRY M. WHITE, D. D.

WINCHESTER, VA., April 2ot/i, 1887.

Editor Southern Historical Society Papers :

The following fact may be worthy of a place in the historical papers of the " War between the States," and I send it to you as my personal testimony. It took place under my eye when acting as chaplain in the Army of Northern Virginia. I say acting, for, although in the service for several years, I never held a commission.

At the battle of Pole Green church, on the ist day of June, 1864, Lieutenant John W. Diuguid, of the Salem Flying Artillery, was severely wounded in the thigh and taken, with others, to the Central railroad to be sent on to a hospital in Richmond. When I saw those in charge sending off many Federal soldiers and leaving him, I protested because he was a Confederate soldier. Their reply was, "our orders are to send on first the most severely wounded, irre- spective of uniform." He was kept the greater part of a day in the hot sun, and died soon after reaching Richmond.

Very sincerely yours,

H. M. WHITE.

The Lost Cause.

A MASTERLY VINDICATION OF IT BY JUDGE J. A. P. CAMPBELL.

Ill an Address Delivered at Canton^ May i, 1874, on the Occasion of the Decoration of the Graves of Confederate Soldiers.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, We have assembled to commemorate the day set apart among us as a memorial of the Confederate struggle for independence. The observance of memorials of great epochs is proper and sanctioned by custom. People usually celebrate their successes we, our grand effort for freedom and right, which de- served, but did not achieve success. There is danger that, with the lapse of time and change of circumstances amid the cares of life, the survivors of the Confederate cause may forget, or neglect, the duty they owe to those who fell victims to the contest and to themselves.