And to finish getting caught up to the current week: Jan. 14, 1863 MORALS IN MEMPHIS. The Argus says rowdyism of a very bad type is
becoming by far too prevalent in the Bluff City, and that of late
shooting, stabbing, and knock down affrays, have followed quite closely
in the wake of each other, particularly among the lower order of people,
until the local columns of the public journals teem with their recital
... Jan. 16, 1863 A SNOW STORM. The early riser this morning witnessed a very
respectable snow storm ... The absence of the sun's rays and the
prevalence of a cold north wind, has kept the fleecy flakes among us as
they fell, and we are now enjoying a real winter, or rather suffering
from the most uncomfortable northern raid experienced in these parts
since the breaking out of the war. Jan. 18, 1863 One of the deepest sensations of the war is that produced among the
Israelites of this country, by the recent order of Gen. Grant, excluding
them, as a class, from his Military Department. The order, to be sure,
was promptly set aside by the President, but the affront to the
Israelites conveyed by its issue, was not so easily effaced … (New York
Times) Jan. 19, 1863 Depredations of the Enemy at Oxford. The army correspondent of the
Chicago Times gives the following narrative: Nor is pillaging by any
means rare in the line of our march. Dozens – scores – of instances came
under my own observation. Houses were entered and robbed unblushingly
every hour of the day and night and on almost every block in the town of
Oxford. Women were compelled to get out of bed in their night clothes
that their beds might be searched for money, or other valuables. …
These and countless other outrages have thus far been committed with
impunity by Federal soldiers, who are professedly fighting to maintain
the Union, the Constitution, and the laws, and to perpetuate the
blessings of civil and individual liberty and rights … I hear also that
the conduct of our troops on leaving was equally bad – that houses were
fired in many instances – and that it was with great difficulty they
were restrained from burning down the town. Jan. 20, 1863 According to word from Memphis, the Federals recently raided
Somerville, Tenn., capturing eight Confederate soldiers. But the Yankees
behaved so outrageously during their stay in the town that one of their
officers, Captain Swoger, was compelled to shoot one of his own men.
(This mention of the incident was tame compared to what actually
happened. Read Gen. Grant's angry reaction at: http://1.usa.gov/13E1qB7) The Memphis Appeal, the best newspaper in the Confederate States,
re-appears from Jackson, and it does one good to see its sparkling face
again. We hope it may not be obliged to move any more, unless it is back
toward its old home again. -- Houston Telegraph. Thank you for the wish
as well as the compliment. |
