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From the Richmond Enquirer, 3/23/1865.

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA
WAR DEPARTMENT
ADJ'T AND INSP'R GEN'LS OFFICE,
Richmond, March 11, '65.

Sirs - You are hereby authorized to raise a company or companies of negro soldiers under the provisions of the act of Congress, approved March 13, 1865.

When the requisite number shall have been recruited, they will be mustered into the service for the war, and muster rolls forwarded to this office.

The companies, when organized, will be subject to the rules and regulations governing the Provisional army of the Confederate States.

By command of the Secretary of War.

(Signed) JOHN W. RIPLEY. A.A.G.

To Major J. W. Pegram, Major T.P. Turner, through Gen. Ewell.

COLORED TROOPS. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.

It will be seen by the order of the Secretary of War, published above, that the undersigned have been authorized to proceed at once with the organization of companies to be composed of persons of color, free and slave, who are willing to volunteer under the recent acts of Congress and Legislature of Virginia. It is well known to the country that General Lee has evinced the deepest interest in this subject and that he regards prompt action in this matter as vitally important to the country. In a letter addressed by him to Lieutenant General Ewell, dated March 10th, he says: "I hope it will be found practicable to raise a considerable force in Richmond." **** "I attach great importance to the first experiment, and nothing should be left undone to make it successful. The sooner this can be accomplished the better!"

The undersigned have established a rendezvous on 21st, between Main and Cary Streets, at the building known as "Smith's Factory," and every arrangement has been made to secure the comfort of the recruits, and to prepare them for service. It is recommended that each recruit be furnished, when practicable, with a gray jacket and pants, cap and blanket and good serviceable pair of shoes, but no delay should take place in forwarding the recruits in order to obtain these articles.

The Governments, Confederate and State, having settled the policy of employing this element of strength, and this class of our population having given repeated evidence of their willingness to take up arms in defense of their homes, it is believed that it is only necessary to put the matter before them in a proper light to cause them to rally with enthusiasm for the preservation of the homes in which they have been born and raised, and in which they have found contentment and happiness, and to save themselves and their face from the barbarous cruelty invariably practiced upon them by a perfidious enemy claiming to be their friends.

Will not the people of Virginia, in this hour of peril and danger, promptly respond to the call of our loved General in Chief, and the demand of the Confederate and State Governments? Will those who have freely given their sons and brothers, their money and their property to the achievement of the liberties of their country now hold back from the cause their servants, who can well be spared, and who would gladly aid in bringing this fearful war to a speedy and glorious termination?

Let every man in the State consider himself a recruiting officer and enter at once upon the duty of aiding in the organization of this force by sending forward recruits to our rendezvous. Every consideration of patriotism, the independence of our country, the safety of our homes, the happiness of our families and the sanctity of our firesides all prompt to immediate and energetic action for the defense of the country. Let the people but be true to themselves and to the claims of duty and our independence will speedily secured and peace be restored within our borders.

J.W. PEGRAM
Major, &c., P.A.C.S.,

THOS. P. TURNER
Major, &c., P.A.C.S.

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From the New York Herald, 4/4/1865.

GRANT. RICHMOND OURS. Secretary Stanton to General Dix.

WAR DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, April 3 - 10 A.M.

The following telegram from the President, announcing the EVACUATION OF PETERSBURG, and probably of Richmond, has just been received by the department.

EDWIN M. STANTON
Secretary of War

The President's Dispatch.

CITY POINT, Va., April 3 - 8:30 A.M.

Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War -

This morning Lieutenant General Grant reports Petersburg evacuated, and he is confident that Richmond also is.

HE is pushing forward to cut off, if possible, the retreating rebel army.

A. LINCOLN

Secretary Stanton's Second Dispatch.

WAR DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, April 3 - 10 A.M.

Major General Dix, New York: -

It appears from a dispatch of General Weitzel, just received by this department, that our force under his command ARE IN RICHMOND, having taken it at fifteen minutes past eight this morning.

EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

Secretary Stanton's Third Dispatch.

WAR DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, April 3 - 12 M.

Major General Dix, New York: -

The following official confirmation of the capture of Richmond, and the announcement that the city is on fire, has been received.

EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.

ADJUTANT GENERAL BOWERS TO SECRETARY STANTON.

CITY POINT, April 3 - 11 A.M.

Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War: -

General Weitzel telegraph as follows: -

We took Richmond at a quarter past eight this morning. I captured many guns. The enemy left in great haste. The city is on fire in one place. Am making every effort to put it out. The people received us with enthusiastic expressions of joy. General Grant started early this morning with the army towards the Danville road, to cut off Lee's retreating army if possible.

President Lincoln has gone to the front.

T.S. BOWERS, Acting Adjutant General.

Our Special Washington Dispatch.

WASHINGTON, April 3 - Midnight

A dispatch received here, dated Spotswood House, Richmond, 1:30 P.M. today, says that but little property was destroyed by the fire in Richmond, which was mainly confined to the tobacco warehouses.

The reception of the Union troops was enthusiastic beyond all exception, and confirmed the statement so often made that there were large numbers of Unionists in that city. Many Union flags were displayed, and great rejoicing manifested at the deliverance so long and so anxiously looked for. From private information received here today we learn that President Lincoln designed going himself to Richmond, and may have done so before now.

A telegraphic dispatch received tonight from the president states that he spent the day in Petersburg and returned to City Point tonight.

It does not seem to have been generally remembered that today is the anniversary of the Lieutenant General Grant's taking command of the army in person, at Culpepper Court House, Va.

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Republican Vindicator, March 22, 1861
Summary: Reminds local Democrats that a meeting will be held to appoint delegates to the Congressional Convention in Harrisonburg. The Vindicator argues that the election in May will be a contest between State Rights and Federalism.

Full Text of Article:

Meeting on Monday Next.

We again remind the Democracy of the county, that a meeting will be held on Monday next to appoint delegates to a Congressional Convention to assemble in Harrisonburg on the 25th of April. This day is fixed upon, because it will not interfere with the Courts of any county in the District that we know of. We trust there will be a full meeting, for we deem it of the highest importance that prompt and determined steps be taken to organize the party and prepare for the triumph of the Democracy in May next. The contest is emphatically to be between State Rights and Federalism, and the quicker we draw the lines, the better. It is a time when every man should take his position, and maintain a fixed stand in support of the principles of the Constitution and the government as understood and explained by their founders, or subscribe to a latitudinous idea that will in the end lead to a surrender of our rights and the subordination of our section to Black Republican and abolition aggression and outrage. The issue is before us, and we cannot escape from its consideration. We must either identify ourselves with the North or the South. The question of Union or Disunion is dead and buried. Dissolution has already taken place, and whether the people of Virginia can realize it or not, it is most certainly so. The only question is, where will Virginia go--with her sister States of the South on terms of perfect equality, where the Constitution, the laws and legislation, the feelings and affections, harmonize with her interests and institutions, or with the North, where every act discriminates against her, proscribes her as inferior, and where the sentiment of the people is hostile to her rights and the rights of her citizens? We beg the Democracy and all State Rights men, to remember these things, and come forward on Monday next to take a firm stand for the organization of the State Rights party in this District.


The Programme
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Summary: Criticizes the "submissionists" of the State Convention, who have agreed to hold a Border State Convention in Kentucky. The Vindicator believes that the members of the State Convention "are determined to make all they possibly can out of their present position."

Corporation Election
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Summary: Reminds voters that the Staunton election is next Wednesday week and urges the city authorities to fix the streets.

Southern Express
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Summary: The Legislature has passed a bill creating the Southern Express Company, which will establish express lines through the Southern States. Harman and Ficklin are the incorporators.
(Names in announcement: B.F. Ficklin, J.A. Harman)

District Convention
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Summary: The Vindicator once again urges voters to support the holding of a district Democratic Convention. The paper supports this course because it is angry at Congressman Harris, who is nominally a Democrat, but who has placed himself "above every consideration of party interest." Harris has adopted a policy that "cannot fail to demoralize and hopelessly break up our organization, and eventuate in turning the District over to the Opposition."

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MONTGOMERY WEEKLY ADVERTISER, October 8, 1862, p. 1, c. 2

"A Fair Exchange is no Robbery."

"Personne," the correspondent of the Charleston Courier, recording some incidents of the late battles on Manassas Plains, mentions the following of an Alabama boy:
It is related of a soldier belonging to the Eighth Alabama Regiment, that he found a Yankee in the woods, that being separated from his regiment he did not know what to do with him. While soliloquizing, the officer who gave me the incident rode by, and his advice being asked, he told the soldier he had better let the prisoner go. "Well" said the Alabamian, "I reckon I will; but look here, Yankee, you can't leave till you've given me some of them good clothes. Strip! I want your boots and breeches." The Yankee protested against any such indignity, and appealed to the officer to protect him. The Alabamian also plead his cause. "Here's this fellow," said he, "come down here a robbing of our people, and he's stayed so long it's no mor'n right he should pay for his board. I don't want him to go round in his bar legs any mor'n he wants to; and I mean to give him my old clothes." "A fair exchange is no robbery," replied the officer, "and as you have no shoes and a mighty poor pair of pants, I reckon you had better help yourself." "Now Yankee, you hear what the 'boss' says, do yer; off with your traps and let's trade." The last thing my friend saw as he rode away, was the two worthies in their "bar legs," stripping for an exchange.


MONTGOMERY WEEKLY ADVERTISER, October 22, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
A story is told of a Texas "hardshell" preacher, who had become mixed up in land speculation, among other of his multifarious employments, and on entering his pulpit one day, he announced to his congregation, that his text might be found in St. Paul's Epistle to the Land Commissioners, vara four, postoak three west. We have not the words.

MONTGOMERY WEEKLY ADVERTISER, October 29, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
One of the Tennessee bridge burners, who recently escaped from Atlanta, Georgia, was captured near Decatur by a lady, a Mrs. Nancy Vaughn. When the squad sent out for him found him he had already been arrested, and Mrs. Vaughn was standing guard over him with a double barreled gun. There was no other person about the house save herself.

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SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN, March 1, 1864, p. 2, c. 3
A Glorious Hearted Girl.—The Floridian and Journal says:
Upon the arrival of the troops at Madison, sent to reinforce our army in East Florida, the ladies attended at the depot with provisions and refreshments for the defenders of their homes and country. Among the brave was, in one of the Georgia regiments, a soldier boy, whose bare feet were bleeding from the exposure and fatigue of the march. One of the young ladies present, moved by the noble impulses of her sex, took the shoes off of her own feet, made the suffering hero put them on and walked home herself barefooted. Boys, do you hear that? Will you let this glorious girl be insulted and wronged by Yankee ruffians? Never! Wherever Southern soldiers are suffering and bleeding for their country's freedom, let this incident be told for a memorial of Lou Taylor, of Madison county.
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SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN, June 30, 1864, p. 2, c. 2

Sharpshooters

Mr. Editor: Our best officers are killed by sharpshooters. Did it ever occur to you that the manner by which they judge the distance is by the appearance of the articles of clothing our men wear? Now, if a man had on a white hunting shirt, or anything white, it would be next to impossible to draw a bead on him a few hundred yards distant. No man can kill a white crane at a great distance with a rifle, especially if the sun is shining. The bright object is blended with the bright sight of the gun, and no man can, what is called by riflemen, draw a bead. When men shoot at a shooting match, they have a black target, surrounded with a white ring, and they sight at the middle of the black. If I had to be shot at, and had my choice of place and color of dress, I would choose a bright day and a white dress. I have handled a rifle all my life, or since early boyhood, and believe there is something in these suggestions worthy of thought.
Wat[illegible] Creek."

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SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN, September 12, 1864, p. 1, c. 4|
Still Running.—Savannah and Augusta will shortly have a large increase in population, if we are to judge from the number of persons sending their effects to those places. The Express office in this city is daily crowded to excess with freight and is compelled to refuse large quantities. What is the matter with the people that they are running from their homes? Sherman is not yet on the march for Macon, and we do not believe he will be here for at least six months, if ever.
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SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN, September 12, 1864, p. 2, c. 1
Forrest's Men.—It does a Confederate heart good to look at Forrest's men, and we must confess we have enjoyed the sight and the study of these hardy riders. Rough in exterior, there is a manly, devil-may-care air about them that bespeaks men who have followed their great leader in many a foray and charge, carrying terror to the ranks of their enemies. They are, too, the happiest and most cheerful Confederate solders we have ever looked upon. Disdaining sabres, the rifle (most of them Sharp's) and six shooter, are the arms they delight in. Every one speaks of the alacrity and order of their movements. Horses, artillery and baggage were removed from the cars on their arrival, in the time it usually takes a passenger train to empty itself, and it was remarked by a gentleman who saw their arrival, that they would have been ready to fight in twenty minutes after the cars stopped. When we saw them, knots of them were cleaning their rifles and revolvers, as if they were the principal objects of their solicitude.
These manly patriots look altogether worthy of their great leader, and the rough and brilliant military school in which they have been trained. Hurrah for Forrest's men, and all honor to their peerless chieftain!—Mobile Adv. and Reg.

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SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN, December 2, 1864, p. 1, c. 1

From Clinton.

The following is an extract from a private letter dated Clinton, No. 20:
"I snatch a moment to advise you of the destruction committed by the enemy here. Many of us are utterly ruined; hundreds of our people are without anything to eat; their stock of cattle, hogs, are killed; horses and mules with wagons taken off; all through our streets and commons are to be seen dead horses and mules; entrails of hogs and cattle killed, and in many instances, the hams only taken; oxen and carts even taken away, so that we are not able to remove this offensive matter; our school houses and most of the churches burned; Captain Romens beautiful residence in ashes, together with everything of his that could be found, destroyed. He was from home. Atrocities most heinous were committed; Morgan's Tannery with a quantity of government leather destroyed and his family, like many others, deprived of all food; clothes taken off the backs of some of the contrabands, and female servants taken and violated without mercy, by their officers, and in some instances when they were reared as tenderly as whites. But I cannot recapitulate in detail the many outrages; residences of J. McGray, Dr. Blount, J. H. Blunt and others, burned."

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SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN, December 2, 1864, p. 1, c. 4
Milledgeville, Nov. 27th, 1864.
Editor Confederate and Telegraph:
Sir:--For public information we drop you a line or two from this point that it may be known what the Federal army has done in passing through this place. The first appearance of Sherman's cavalry in our city was on the 20th; not more than twenty men first making their appearance. They lingered on the outskirts of the town, cut the telegraph wires, and after inquiring if any of Wheeler's men were here, and being answered in the negative, advanced through the streets with cocked pistols and carbines, seizing horses and exciting no little consternation and alarm. By Monday afternoon Slocum's corps began to come in by way of Social Circle, Madison, and Eatonton, and the other division under him by way of Monticello. Sherman's forces came in by the way of Clinton on Tuesday and Wednesday. The columns visiting Milledgeville composed the 14th [difficult to read] and 20th corps, and it is thought numbered some twenty thousand muskets, with corresponding artillery and several thousand wagons. These wagons were mostly loaded with provisions, the army subsisting on what they found on their way in the country.
They spread desolation broadcast—taking everything in their way in the breadth of about twenty miles. Corn, fodder, meal, flour, horses, mules, hogs, cattle, cheep, poultry, of every description, servants that could be enticed and forced off, and these in great numbers. The last of the army left on Friday forenoon, destroying in its rear the bridge over the Oconee, at this place, having previously burned the Arsenal with three thousand stand of arms in it, blew up the Magazine, and burnt the Railroad Depot. The Penitentiary was burnt by some of the convicts, said to be the women. The railroad has been destroyed for about two and a half miles from this towards Gordon, and for about four miles from Gordon in this direction.
We are informed that the road between this and Eatonton was undisturbed except the bridge across Little rivers, which was burned with the depot at Eatonton. The State House, the Executive Mansion, the Factory and the Asylum are left standing, though all but the latter dismantled. The Churches were entered and materially damaged. The only private residences burnt were those of John Jones, State Treasurer, and Mr. Gibbs', formerly Colonel Campbellis. This was done, it is said, by a mob of the soldiers, because he was a South Carolinian. All his household furniture was burnt, and his silver were taken to the amount of about twenty thousand dollars. The city being one vast camp, fences became their fuel, gardens and private yards became highways for horses and men—hence, our city now presents a forlorn appearance.
The materials of the Southern Recorder and Confederate Union were successfully concealed in the country, but some time must elapse before the offices can be again put in operation. We have now no mail facilities except by couriers to your city.
As your city has been spared, we hope some method may be adopted by which the distressed with us may be supplied with provisions, as the community are left without food or means of transportation.
We need not undertake to describe the scenes of the past week, God grant they never be repeated. [illegible] M. Orme, Sen.
N.B.—We hear of a great many private dwellings, gin houses, and much cotton being burnt by the army on their different routes; some within sight. Also, that several private citizens were shot. It is, however, due to the Federals to say that they respected families in our city, within doors, abut at the same time robbed them of all without. In the country, families were frequently ill-treated, and their houses also sacked.
I omitted to state the proper place that the State House and Executive mansion were after consultation on the part of Sherman and other Generals, left standing on the ground that Georgia, within six months would be again a part of the United States through that action. A staff officer repeatedly asserted that they knew the State would go back. We believe they are mistaken, for judging of the effect of their vandalism on Milledgeville we believe the State will be a unit, as we are, in increased hatred to them. [Illegible] property has only united us more closely in determined resistance, even to death. R.M.O.

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SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN, January 2, 1865, p. 2, c. 5

Cradles that have Robbed Themselves.

"Robbing the cradle and the grave?" Jeff. Davis has to do that. What shall be said of a people whose cradles rob themselves for soldiers for its armies, and of graves that give up their dead to fight for motherland and Freedom? What a scene was that in the War Office on Monday! Children crowding forward with offerings of Rebel standards snatched from Rebel hands on bloodiest fields of battle—fought for and won by those whom the law calls "infants," and the sisters and the mothers call "the boys." A dishonorable peace to be made while a cradle in America rocks such warrior infancy as this! Pshaw! Oh, what an awakening for fools and knaves on this and on the other side of the Atlantic, when these cradles shall stop rocking and the infants get out and go to the field, for a purified Republic and for Democracy in America. But to the scene in the War Department.
A flag captured by Private Jeremiah Parks, Ninth New York Cavalry, a youth not yet 18 years of age, and who has not yet been in service two months. The Secretary expressed the hope that before the war was terminated Parks would win a Major General's commission.
Sweeney, who captured the flag supposed to belong to the late General Ramseur's headquarters, is not yet 18 years of age. His explanation to the Secretary of the capture was very amusing—"Me and another one of the boys," said he, "saw an ambulance and ordered it to halt. Says the driver, 'the General ordered the ambulance to go on.' Says I, 'What General?' Says the driver, 'General Ramseur.' Says I, that is the very man I am looking for.' So the other boy and myself took Gen. Ramseur, the Surgeon, the ambulance, the drier and the horses." Gen. Custer explained that the boy had on a grey jacket, when he made the capture, and thus misled the driver of Gen. Ramseur's ambulance. The Secretary said he would like to see the "other boy," who Sweeney stated was Corpl. Fred Lyons, 1st Vermont Cavalry. Secretary Stanton then returned to these soldiers the thanks of the Department and of the Government for their gallantry in this great and brilliant battle stating that each of them would be furnished a medal in commemoration of their bravery.

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SAVANNAH [GA] REPUBLICAN, January 2, 1865, p. 3, c. 1-2
Headquarters, }
Military Division of the Mississippi, }
In the Field, Savannah, Ga., Dec. 26th, 1864, }
Special Field Orders, }
No. 143.
The City of Savannah and surrounding country will be held as a Military Post and adapted to future military uses, but as it contains a population of some 20,000 people who must be provided for, and as other citizens may come, it is proper to lay down certain general principles, that all within its military jurisdiction may understand their relative duties and obligation.
I. During war, the Military is superior to Civil authority, and where interests clash, the Civil must give way; yet, where there is no conflict, every encouragement should be given to well disposed and peaceful inhabitants to resume their usual pursuits. Families should be disturbed as little as possible in their residences, and tradesmen allowed the free use of their shops, tools, &c. Churches, schools, all places of amusement and recreation should be encouraged, and streets and roads made perfectly safe to persons in their usual pursuits.—Passes should not be extracted within the line of outer pickets, but if any person shall abuse these privileges by communicating with the enemy, or doing any act of hostility to the Government of the United States, he or she will be punished with the utmost rigor of the law.
Commerce with the outer world will be resumed to an extent commensurate with the wants of the citizens, governed by the restrictions and rules of the Treasury Department.
II. . . . All vacant store houses or dwellings, and all buildings [belonging?] to absent rebels, will be construed and used as belonging to the United States until such times as their titles can be settled by the Courts of the United States.
III. The Mayor and City Council of Savannah will continue and exercise their functions as such . . . They will ascertain and report to the Chief C. S., as soon as possible, the names and number of worthy families that need assistance and support.
The Mayor will forthwith give public notice that the time has come when all must choose their course, viz: to remain within our lines and conduct themselves as good citizens, or depart in peace. He will ascertain the names of all who choose to leave Savannah, and report their names and residence to the Chief Quartermaster, that measures may be taken to transport them beyond the lines.
IV. Not more than two Newspapers will be published in Savannah, and their Editors and Proprietors will be held to the strictest accountability, and will be punished severely in person and property for any libelous publication, mischievous matter, premature news, exaggerated statements, or any comments whatever upon the acts of the constituted authorities; they will be held accountable even for such articles though copied from other papers.
By Order of
Major General W. T. Sherman.
L. M. Dayton.
Aide-de-Camp.

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MONTGOMERY WEEKLY ADVERTISER
1862

MONTGOMERY WEEKLY ADVERTISER, March 19, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
R. R. Cheatham, Mayor of Nashville, has issued a proclamation giving the "satisfactory result" of an interview between the city authorities and Gen. Buell. He therefore respectfully requests that business be resumed, and that all citizens, of every trade and profession, pursue their regular vocations. They sale or giving away of intoxicating liquors is, however, strictly prohibited.
The Nashville correspondent of the New York Times gives a picture of the state of affairs, from which it appears that the invaders were not received with any great amount of cordiality. We make some extracts:
I have spent a good deal of time to-day in conversing with the citizens, and found but little Union sentiment. Men asserted that they were not citizens of the United States, didn't want any protection from the Government, and in several cases even refused to sell any goods to the soldiers or officers. One man said he was a Union man, but never had dared say so for fear of being hung; another said the only two nights' sleep he had had in weeks were since the arrival of the National army. Another individual assured me with a very haughty air, that there were no Union men in Nashville except among mechanics and laborers; no gentlemen, he said, were anything but secessionists, or rebels, if I liked the term any better.
Gen. Grant and his staff visited Nashville, and called upon Mrs. James K. Polk. Of the interview the writer says:
She received her visitors courteously, but with a polished coldness that indicated sufficiently in which direction her sympathies ran—she was simply polite and ladylike; in no case patriotic. While she discreetly forbore to give utterance to any expression of sympathy for the South, she as rigidly avoided saying anything that might be construed into a wish for the success of the Government. She hoped, she said, that the tomb of her husband would protect her household from insult and her property from pillage; further than this she expected nothing from the United States, and desired nothing.
The correspondent finds that "the ladies of Nashville are as full of treason as they are of occasional cases of loveliness." Among the evidences of their contempt for the Yankees the following is given:
Occasionally I met other specimens of Nashville ladies, who, in many cases supposing me to be a soldier, from the possession of a blue overcoat, described, upon meeting, a wide semi-circle of avoidance, swinging, as the [illegible] their rotundant skirts with a contemptuous [illegible] far [illegible] as if the very touch of a blue coat would be a contamination. [illegible] the angles at which the noses of the naughty darlings went up, and the extent to which their lips and eyes went down were not the least interesting portion of these little by-plays, and assisted materially in showing the exquisite breeding of these amiable demoiselles.
A later account says:
Union men begin to make their appearance. They say that a majority will yet be found on our side, but that it will take some time to develop the feeling that has been so thoroughly crushed. ____________________________________________

MONTGOMERY WEEKLY ADVERTISER, March 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
The Tyler Texas Reporter, of the 27th ult., has the following.
We learn that five fellows were hung at South Sulphur, Hopkins county, a few days ago, for treasonable conduct. Right! Preach us long sermons about the evils of mob law, at other times and under other circumstances, but we say6 hang the last one that can be caught. We have been notified to watch for Lincoln's incendiaries, and let us do it, and never have to hunt the same one twice.

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CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
A letter from the Tennessee river, contains the following paragraph about the loyalists who have appeared on the Tennessee river:
This invaluable class is composed--according to a careful analysis made by an eminent chemist on the spot--of ten parts unadulterated Andy Johnson Union men, ten of good lord good devil-ites, five of spies, and seventy-five scalawags, too lazy to run, therefore disqualified for service in the Secesh army, and too cowardly to steal on their own responsibility, but willing to be enrolled as "Home Guards," so as to plunder their neighbors under the Union flag.

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CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 10, 1862, p. 4, c. 2

Aid for the Wounded.

Immediately upon the reception of the news of the great battle at Pittsburg Landing, the heart of the people became as sad--notwithstanding the great victory--as it had on the previous day been pleased and elated at the bloodless success of Island No. Ten. Well did that people know that Chicago was largely represented in the ranks of the Federal troops engaged in the severe and bloody battle that had been fought. Pale faces and tearful eyes surrounded the bulletin board of the Tribune office all the day, and there was an intensity of feeling pervading the entire community in regard to the result that no previous battle of the war had brought out.
There were reports in the streets, started by wretches simply unfeeling and heartless, that the Nineteenth Regiment and the Hecker (German) Regiment were engaged in the battle of Pittsburg Landing, and their ranks had been dreadfully cut up. So far as yet learned these were merely cruel rumors without foundation, in fact and not to be relied upon. But enough was known to show that a large number of men were wounded and suffering. Steps were immediately taken to ameliorate their condition.
The Board of Trade, whose members are always foremost in humane and charitable movements, held a meeting at twelve o'clock, a subscription from the merchants on 'Change, amounting to $975.50, was quickly raised, and to render all the aid in their power, the Board in a corporate capacity donated $2,000 more, making an aggregate from this class of men of nearly $3,000. It is no more than we could have expected from them.
The next move made was a call of the Sanitary Commission for surgeons and nurses to go to the scene of the battle to aid in caring for the wounded. This was promptly responded to by many of our best citizens. The following is the list of
Surgeons.
Dr. Warren Miller, Dr. Geo. K. Ammerman,
" J. P. Ross, " E. L. Holmes,
" Alex. Fisher, " James Bloodgood,
" Chas. G. Smith, " L. D. Boone,
" R. C. Hamill, " Edwin Powell,
" J. P. Lynn, " Davison,
" E. Ingalls, " C. H. Ray.
" S. Wickersham, " C. H. Ray.
Dr. Gillette.
The following persons volunteered as
Nurses:
E. B. Wright A. S. Chadbourne,
Sam'l. Polkey, Frank Mehler,
Theron Potter, Frank Beasley,
Walter B. Scates, S. H. Bottomley,
Alonzo Atkinson, A. C. Matchette,
John Zhan. A. S. Phelps,
W. H. Tilton, J. M. Loomis,
Eugene Marguerat, Ed. Bacon,
U.F. Linder, jr., B. W. Thomas,
Addison Graves, S. M. Wilcox,
C. J. Hutchings, J. M. English,
John R. Parsons, M. Tuttle,
Amos Jackson, Paul Cormell,
T. J. Sloan, S. H. Smith,
Miss Skeer, G. B. Smith,
G. W. Wilson, Jas. Nesbitt,
Carlisle Mason, A. H. Boyden,
Reverend Rob't. Collyer, W. W. Stewart,
J. E. Morse, D. L. Moody.
H. D. Aylesworth, N. W. Farley,
Jas. E. Aikin, H. C. Mowry,
Mrs. D. F. Kimball, Thos. Sexton,
H. S. Sackett, John Dixon,
J. E. Maple, C. W. Hawley,
Geo. See, J. B. Annis,
C. E. Allen, H. C. Hollingsworth.
The above nurses and surgeons left the city on a special train over the Illinois Central Road for Cairo at five o'clock last evening, and are to be put through to that city by eight o'clock this morning. While some of our readers are sipping their coffee and reading their paper at breakfast, the delegation will be embarking upon a steamer, prepared and in readiness for the purpose, and starting upon their way to Pittsburg Landing.
Col. C. G. Hammond, of the C. B. & Q. R. R., went to Quincy on Tuesday night, accompanied by Dr. Brock McVickar, for the purpose of bringing a steamer, the property of his road, into immediate use for the accommodation of the soldiers, the surgeons and nurses.
With the Chicago delegation went one hundred and four boxes of hospital supplies from the Sanitary Commission, and at Cairo this number will be largely increased by a quantity of the same supplies already shipped, and which will be taken also to Pittsburg Landing.
All honor to the Board of Trade, the surgeons and nurses and the Sanitary Commission. They are doing a noble work. ______________________________________________

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 14, 1862, p. 2, c. 1

Our State Officers.

The earnestness and promptness with which Gov. Yates and his Adjutant, Gen. Fuller, are going to work for the relief of the wounded Illinois troops at Pittsburg Landing, are worthy of unqualified praise. We only regret that they have not at their command more abundant resources, that their power to do might be commensurate with their will; but that they will make the wisest use of the means at their disposal there can be no doubt. The thousands of families in Illinois who will be stricken as a result of the struggle, when they are known, and the men of right feeling everywhere, have cause to bless the noble promptings of the hearts that have thrown themselves into this humane work. Yet this is the Governor every fibre [sic] of whose being is alive to the honor of the State and the interest of her sons, whom that bogus Convention would legislate out of office to make way for Hacker, Buckmaster, or O'Melveny, or another of that ilk.

CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE, April 14, 1862, p. 2, c. 3-7
As your correspondent reached the third line of our forces, he met several thousands of stragglers, many of them from the hospitals, but many more who had never before witnessed the service of the battle-field, and who, so far, had not found it much to their liking. Their faces were turned to the river and neither persuasion nor threats could induce them to change their course. I must say, that at this juncture, your correspondent was strongly reminded of the great panic at Bull Run, for appearances indicated that the same scenes were likely to be re-enacted upon this occasion. Men and women came promiscuously, singly and by dozens, filling the road, limping, staggering along, in some cases supported on the arms of comrades or others, but all having the same destination, and bent on the accomplishment of the same purpose, viz: To escape from the sound of the whizzing balls, which were flying in every direction. ...
All the wagons and other vehicles of transportation on their way to the camps were turned back, and the road given as far as was practicable to the use of the ambulances, which were now getting to be very plenty. They were not, however, sufficient for the demands of the occasion, there being in many cases but two to each regiment, and heavy army wagons were used to make up the deficiency. These rattled along over the hagged [sic] road, through the mud, over roots and stones, filled to the top with the wounded and such of the sick as were unable to leave the regimental hospitals without assistance. ... Foot by foot the ground was contested, a single narrow strip of open land dividing the opponents. Not having had time in their hasty departure from their camps to bring forward the hand stretchers so necessary for the easy transportation of the wounded, such available means as were at hand were adopted, and the soldier's outstretched blanket received his crippled comrade, as the only available method by which he could be carried to the rear. Many who were maimed fell back without help, while others still fought in the ranks until they were actually forced back by their company officers. ... Some of our Ohio regiments have suffered severely, although the number of those severely wounded is comparatively small. Gun shots in the arms and legs are very plentiful, it seemingly having been the object of the enemy to wound rather than kill outright, being in adherence to the policy that it requires four men to take care of one wounded, while none are required to look after the dead.

The Scene at Midnight

As I sit to-night, writing this epistle, the dead and wounded are all around me. The knife of the surgeon is busy at work, and amputated legs and arms lie scattered in every direction. The cries of the suffering victim, and the groans of those who patiently await for medical attendance, are most distressing to any one who has any sympathy with his fellow man. All day long they have been coming in, and they are placed upon the decks and within the cabins of the steamers, and wherever else they can find a resting place. I hope my eyes may never again look upon such sights. Men with their entrails protruding, others with broken arms and legs, others with bullets in their breasts or shoulders, and one poor wretch I found whose eyes had been shot entirely away. All kinds of conceivable wounds are to be seen, in all parts of the body, and from all varieties of weapons.
It is midnight, and beside the cries of distress, all is silent, save the hourly discharge of a broadside from the gunboats, sending heavy shells into the vicinity of the enemy's camps. I should judge that they are having rather a sleepless night, under the circumstances. The rain is beginning to fall heavily and mercilessly on the poor wounded who are exposed to its peltings. Every particle of sheltered space is occupied by them, and yet there are hundreds who have no protection from the storm. Yet these are the circumstances incidental to this terrible war.
... As I write this I just learn of the deaths of Lieutenant Colonel Canfield, of the Seventy-second Ohio, Capt. Bertram of the Fifty-fourth Ohio, and Capt. Warner of the Forty-eighth Ohio. The case of the former named officer is peculiarly affecting. His amiable lady has reached here, in company with her young son, in time to learn that her husband has been sent to Savannah severely wounded. He is now dead, and his body has been placed aboard the J. W. Pattin for transportation to Paducah.

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From 1854:
Reprinted from the New Orleans Bulletin:
"A RICH SLAVE.--
Dr. P.L. Nee yesterday deposed before acting Recorder Ker, that his slave Amenaide about two years ago deposited for safe-keeping in the hands of Aglae, f.w.c., a vendrice de cafe in the market, $550 in gold and silver, and that when called upon to pay it over to the slave she refused, and in consequence has been arrested for breach of trust.

"It strikes us that it would be a capital idea to establish a savings bank in this city, where, with the consent of their owners, slaves might deposit on interest the sums which they have so many opportunities to earn. It would tend to make them more industrious and frugal, and be an incentive to good conduct, and would doubtless enable many of them to purchase their freedom and colonize to Liberia. By the way, how many of the Abolitionists have as much cash as this slave? The New-York Tribune will please inform us."

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The Spectator, January 17, 1860, p. 2, c. 2: "Northern Free Negroes and Southern Slaves."
Compares the conditions of free blacks and slaves and claims that slaves receive better treatment in the South than free blacks do in the North.

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CHARLESTON MERCURY, July 16, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
A new species of food for army uses, called the extract of flesh, is highly commended for invalid soldiers and others. A half ounce represents the whole amount of nutriment in a pound of fresh beef. The method of preparation is thus described: "The whole process consists in taking lean beef, free of bone and fat, chopping it fine as when used for sausages or mince meat, and mixing it with its own weight of water. It is then slowly heated to boiling and allowed to boil briskly, for a moment or two, when it is strained through cotton cloth to separate the coagulated albumin and florin. The evaporation to dryness of the solution must be conducted at a low temperature by a water bath or a steam heat. The powder is readily soluble in water. When properly dried it will keep for months. Enough can be stored in an ordinary watch fob to sustain a soldier a week. An ordinary porcelain lined kettle, holding a gallon, is sufficient for the preparation of the extract. To dry the solution, put the kettle into a larger vessel containing hot water."