The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862. Various

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СКАЧАТЬ telescope-rifles more than equalled our expectations. They do good service at a mile, and are certain death at half a mile.” At Edwards’s Ferry, on the 22d of October, seventy men of this company repelled a charge of fifteen hundred of the enemy and drove them from the field, with the loss of more than one hundred killed, while not one of their own men received a scratch. They lay upon the ground behind a fence, resting their guns upon the lower rail, and the enemy came in sight half a mile distant and started towards them at double-quick, loading and firing as they ran; but before they had traversed half the distance, they had learned that the whistle of every bullet was the death-knell of one, and in many instances of more than one of their number, and coming to a slight ravine, the temptation of its shelter from so fearful a storm proved irresistible, and, turning up course, they fled in dismay, leaving their dead upon the ground in windrows. Three standard-bearers in succession fell before the fatal aim of the same rifle, and no man dared repeat the suicidal act of again displaying that ensign. We have seen a letter from an officer high in command who witnessed that action, and, after describing it, he remarks,—“There is more chance of credit to your State in the new gun and men than in twenty drilled regiments.”

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      1

      Schomburg.

      2

      Governor Hincks.

      3

      B.T. Young’s Letter of January 12th, 1858, and other letters from planters, published in the National Era, August, 1858.

      4

      Letter from the Bishop of Barbadoes, February 23, 1858. It appears in the same letter that the church-attendants have increased from 5,000 in 1825 to 28,000 in 1853.

      5

      Cochin’s L’Abolition de l’Esclavage.

      6

      Sewell’s Ordeal of Free Labor, etc.

      7

      Breen.

      8

      Sewell.

      9

      Burnley’s Trinidad.

      10

      Cochin’s tables give the sugar export of Trinidad as follows: Under slavery, (1831-34,) 316,338 cwt.; during apprenticeship, (1835-38,) 295,787 cwt.; under free labor, (1839-45,) 292,023 cwt.; in 1846, 353,293 cwt.; in 1847, 393,537 cwt.

      11

      Sewell’s Ordeal of Free Labor, etc.

      12

      Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen.

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1

Schomburg.

2

Governor Hincks.

3

B.T. Young’s Letter of January 12th, 1858, and other letters from planters, published in the National Era, August, 1858.

4

Letter from the Bishop of Barbadoes, February 23, 1858. It appears in the same letter that the church-attendants have increased from 5,000 in 1825 to 28,000 in 1853.

5

Cochin’s L’Abolition de l’Esclavage.

6

Sewell’s Ordeal of Free Labor, etc.

7

Breen.

8

Sewell.

9

Burnley’s Trinidad.

10

Cochin’s tables give the sugar export of Trinidad as follows: Under slavery, (1831-34,) 316,338 cwt.; during apprenticeship, (1835-38,) 295,787 cwt.; under free labor, (1839-45,) 292,023 cwt.; in 1846, 353,293 cwt.; in 1847, 393,537 cwt.

11

Sewell’s Ordeal of Free Labor, etc.

12

Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen.

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