. Incidents of the Civil War in America . ort of theirfamilies during their absence from home. Contraband Culvert.—-Muddy Branch i> the name of a small but deeptributary of thjs Potomac, entering that river about 30 miles above Washing-ton. It is crossed on a broad eulvert by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, be-neath which the rebels were accustomed to hide then? boats in their secret cor-respondence between Virginia and Maryland. The hiding plaee was finally de-tected, and the rebel sympathisers of Maryland cut off from communicationwith their friend- in Secessia.* The Palmetto Flag.—HieSout
. Incidents of the Civil War in America . ort of theirfamilies during their absence from home. Contraband Culvert.—-Muddy Branch i> the name of a small but deeptributary of thjs Potomac, entering that river about 30 miles above Washing-ton. It is crossed on a broad eulvert by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, be-neath which the rebels were accustomed to hide then? boats in their secret cor-respondence between Virginia and Maryland. The hiding plaee was finally de-tected, and the rebel sympathisers of Maryland cut off from communicationwith their friend- in Secessia.* The Palmetto Flag.—HieSouth Carolina. The Pal-metto is a species of dwarfPalm, and reaches its high-est latitude in that the war of theRevolution, a fort of Pal-metto logs was built, forthe protection Of Charles-ton harbor, oh the spotnow occupied by FortMoultre, which effectuallybeat off the English this and other reasonsthe Palmetto was adopted:as a >ymbol in the armsand on the flag of SouthCarolina. he Palmetto flag is that of the. The Camp Disease.—That there is much painful anil distressing sicknessin both the National and rebel armies is a melancholy truth. Go to the hos-pitals and see the pale, wounded soldiers, moaning on their pallets, and thespectacle will make the sympathetic tear trickle down the sternest it seems from the confessions of the Alabama volunteers that a new diseaseprevails there, happily not known in the Northern sick-lists. We will notundertake to describe its symptoms, as we trust our surgeons will never haveoccasion to prescribe for such patients, but give rather as a curiosity to our•■eaders the language of the poor fellow who was attacked with it in commonwith many others around him. The first symptom is a horror of gunpowder. The r^atient cant abide thesmell of it, but is seized with a nervous trembling of the knees, and a white- 38 HEROIC INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES ness about the liver, and a longing inclination to advance backw
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