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teeming with strategic conceptions of striking boldness. In the days of ancient Rome such a man would have been thanked by the Senate for his resolution still to continue the defence of what looked as a lost cause. But although he had not, like Varro, lost by his fault the battle of Cannae and left dead on the battle field near seventy thousand of his countrymen, yet not only was he not thanked for not having despaired of the Republic, but even very little attention was paid to his suggestions. Was it because, unlike Varro, he was not liable to reproach? At last the cataclism arrived. Charleston was evacuated, Columbia burned, and nothing had been done by those who had rejected, one after another, all of General Beauregard's plans and suggestions. The wisdom of the policy advocated by General Beauregard, weeks before, says Colonel Roman, was clearly demonstrated. Had our untenable seaports and harbor defences and even the Confederate capital been abandoned in time, and the t