. The New England magazine . ch aforce with only ahandful of men. Butwhile the wild brav-ery, shown by himand his men shouldcall for the most un-qualified admirationfor its own sake,yet it is but justiceto his discretion tostate that he hadbeen instructed bythe general com-manding to chargeany body of the en-emy which he mightencounter, as thedemoralization ofthe rebel army wasreported to be suchthat they wouldbreak before anydetermined onset,whatever their num-bers might be. Theashburn. Splendid and des- perate constancy ofthe Confederates remaining in arms, how-ever, was hardly understood by
. The New England magazine . ch aforce with only ahandful of men. Butwhile the wild brav-ery, shown by himand his men shouldcall for the most un-qualified admirationfor its own sake,yet it is but justiceto his discretion tostate that he hadbeen instructed bythe general com-manding to chargeany body of the en-emy which he mightencounter, as thedemoralization ofthe rebel army wasreported to be suchthat they wouldbreak before anydetermined onset,whatever their num-bers might be. Theashburn. Splendid and des- perate constancy ofthe Confederates remaining in arms, how-ever, was hardly understood by some ofour generals. It was never more mag-nificently shown than when in their des-pair they hurled their skeleton battalionsupon our lines at Sailors Creek. But Washburn and his fourscore sabreshad done enough. They had succeededin adding a more brilliant lustre to thefame which has ever attended the stand-ards of the American Cavalry. A GLIMPSE AT SCHLIEMANNS DISCOVERIESIN HELLAS. By Prof. John L. Ewcll, Washington, D. A Modern Greek. BORROWED copyof Popes Iliad fas-cinated my child-hood, and myyouth was charmedwith the wondrousAnglo-Saxon intowhich ProfessorHadley used totranslate Homersglow no less thanhis words, at theclose of our recita-tions in Yale. Allthe years that hadcome and gonesince had notquenched the en-thusiasm kindledat such altars, sothat it was withintense delightthat I found myself at last actually stand-ing at the entrance to the Museum ofMycenian Antiquities in Athens. On the twenty-eighth of November,1876, Dr. Schliemann sent a telegramfrom Mycenae to the King of Greece,part of which telegram, when translated,reads as follows : I have the extreme pleasure to announce toyour majesty that I have discovered the tombswhich tradition, as given in Pausanius, designatedas those of Agamemnon, Cassandra and theircomrades who were slain at a banquet by Clytem-nestra and her paramour, Egisthus. I have foundin these tombs immense treasures. These treas-ures are
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