We have received several trophies from the battle-field of Shiloh, which are alike Interesting and significant. Mr. Wm. R. Elliott, of the Crescent Blues, Crescent Regiment, who fought bravely through the battles of the 6th and 7th, and who was wounded in the leg near the close of the last day’s fight, has presented us a Yankee private’s coat, which he captured and appropriated. The coat is composed of good blue cloth, well made, and is certainly an excellent article of wearing apparel. Were it not for the brass fixings on the shoulder straps and “old Abe’s” buttons, it would be as genteel a coat as one would wish to wear in cold, or moderately cold weather. The garment shows in what style the soldiers of our enemy is are fitted out.
“G. W. S.,” our able and reliable occasional correspondent (wish he wold write oftener, or that the mails would come through with greater regularity,) has sent us a couple of trophies. One is a piece of fine gold lace, taken from a half-burned Lincoln standard, and the other a pamphlet reprint (it purports to be such) of the “Soldier’s Pocket Bible,” by Oliver Cromwell, in 1643. What use the Lincolnites have for extracts from the Bible we are unable to understand, as they persistently violate every cardinal principle laid down in the Holy Book, whenever they have a chance; and as for their flags, they immediately abandon them whenever our boys charge with the cold steel in hand. However, we will preserve the “trophies” with sedulous care, and trust receive still further remebrancers from our gallant friends.
New Orleans Daily Crescent, New Orleans, LA