MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS]
June – November, 1862
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 2-3
The Evacuation of Corinth.
Correspondence
Cincinnati Commercial.
Near
Corinth, May 31, 1861.-- . . . Corinth is one of the neatest appearing and best
laid out towns in the Southwest. It
is the capital of Tishimingo county, Mississippi, situated six miles from the
Tennessee line, and more favorably located than I thought it possible for any
place to be in such a region as this. There
are neither hills, ravines, or swamps in or near it.
It is surrounded by thick woods, but is easily approached from all sides
by State and county roads. The
Mobile and Ohio and Memphis and Charleston railroads pass through the southwest
section of it.
I have
called Corinth a town, but it claims the more dignified title of city, and
annually elects a mayor and board of councilmen to control its municipal
affairs. Its population, before the
outbreak of the war, was, I believe, 1200.
The streets are very well laid off, and handsomely shaded with trees;
many of the houses are brick--some of them three stories high, quite as well
built as those usually found in Northern towns of similar size.
Many of the dwellings have well cultivated gardens in front, and despite
the sad surroundings, the flowers bloom full and fragrant, as if delicate hands
had constantly been near to bestow upon them the nourishment they could not get
from the fiery [?] overhead. The
houses were found nearly all deserted; here and there a family of the poorer
class had remained, but not twenty, all told.
It must not be understood that the inhabitants fled on the approach of
the Federal army. They commenced
leaving when the Confederate forces arrived, more than two months ago, and I was
told that many of them would return, now that the Federals are in possession of
the city. Tishimingo county court
house, over which the Union flag now waves, is a three-story brick building,
which before the war was principally used as a secession meeting house, where
two or three gathered together in Jeff. Davis' name, to concoct plans for the
triumph of the southern cause. When
the war reached the great State of Mississippi, however, the valiant chivalry
found it necessary to convert it into a hospital.
After the issue of Gen. Fremont's proclamation, some excited individuals
hoisted the black flag over this edifice; it soon gave way, however, to the
yellow one.
There
is a hotel in the city of Corinth. It
is called the Tishimingo House, and is a very fair specimen of its kind.
It has not been, however, for many weeks, "a map of busy life--its
fluctuations and its vast concerns," as Cowper expresses his idea of a
hotel, having been converted into a hospital two months ago.
The inhabitants of the town have been supplied with water from an
artesian well, upward of 200 feet deep, bored about three years ago.
The taste of the water drawn from this source is not very pleasant,
however a wholesome the article itself may be.
There is no creek or stream near and the confederate army was greatly
inconvenienced on this account.
Our Troops in Corinth.
Our troops marched to Corinth in very good order, but when
they arrived within the "city limits," and found themselves treading
the streets of the boasted stronghold, their curiosity was irrepressible, and
they left the ranks in squads to look at houses and flower gardens, to ask for
drinks of water, etc. By on
o'clock, A.M., the thoroughfares were filled with straggling Federals.
The rage for trophies was great. Few
were found, however, except about half a dozen shot guns that had evidently been
lost by their owners. Late southern
papers were in great demand, but were not attainable at any price.
This is attributable, I suppose, to the restriction against reading the
news, which Beauregard is said to have placed on his troops.
A few Memphis dailies, three weeks old, were picked up, but they
contained no southern intelligence that has not already found its way into the
columns of the northern papers. The
rebel post office had been entirely cleaned out--not a vestige of chivalrous
correspondence remained.
While
General Nelson was riding into the town, about nine o'clock in the morning, he
was met by his honor, the mayor of Corinth, and his clerk.
His honor said he felt it his duty to ask of the Federal commander that
the necessary protection be offered to private property, etc.
General Nelson replied that it was the intention of the Federal commander
to offer such protection, and about an hour afterwards every house in the town
was guarded by a sentinel.
Where have they gone to?
Whither have the erratic Southerners wended their fugitive steps?
This is a question which I fear it will require "old folks"
some time to answer. I have interrogated several prisoners, and a number of
citizens who resided in Corinth, but none seem to know definitely the
destination of the runaways. Mr.
Thomas Harrington, the mayor's clerk, says they have divided into three
armies--one of them gone to Grand Junction, one to Holly Springs, and one to
Columbus. Grand Junction is distant
forty-one miles from Corinth, and fifty-two miles from Memphis--the junction of
the Mississippi Central and Mobile and Charleston railroads.
Holly Springs is thirty-five miles from Grand Junction, on the
Mississippi Central. The troops for
this place took the State road--only their baggage went by rail. . . .
The
rebels burned the railroad depot, and a number of buildings which they had used
as warehouses. It is believed that
there was a quantity of corn in these latter, but how much I could not
ascertain. I am told they had an
abundance of forage for their horses at all times--plenty of corn and hay; but
that they were not well supplied with meat for themselves.
A Rebel Female.
Among the few inhabitants found in Corinth was an elderly
female, decidedly rebellious in her disposition, having all the prominent facial
symptoms of the most abhorrent freak of nature--an ill-tempered woman.
An Illinois soldier advanced toward her as she stood on the door step of
her residence, and addressed her thus:
"Well, misses, them ere fellers got away, oh?
Wish we'd caught 'em. We'd
gin 'em the wust whippin' they ever got. Which
way did the d---d hounds go, anyhow?"
Lady
(indignant)--I reckon you don't know who you're talking to.
I've got a son in the Southern army, and he ain't no d----d hound.
He's a gentleman, sir."
Soldier--"Well, I've heerd a good deal about secesh gentlemen, but I never
saw one. Gentlemen don't steal, as
a general thing, but these fellers live by steelin'."
Lady
(whose nose takes an upward tendency). "They
never stole nothin' from you, I guess. What
did you ever lose by them, I'd like to know?"
Soldier--"Lose! why the d----d
thieves stole three undershirts and two pair of drawers from me at Pittsburg.
They stole all our sutler's goods, and all the officers' clothes in our
regiment. I'll know my shirts, and
if I catch 'em on any butternut, I'll finish him sure.
But you see, Misses, I don't want to talk saucy to a woman.
I just called to ask you if you had any fresh bread to sell.
Lady--"No, I hain't; I ain't no baker, and don't keep no bake shop,
neither. I guess you'll have to go
North for fresh bread."
Soldier--"Well, it's no use gittin' mad about it.
I've got money to pay for what I buy.
I intend to go North after a while, when we ship these runaway fellers,
but not before. If they hadn't run
off, secesh would have been played out in a week.
I guess it's played out anyhow, eh?"
Exit
lady unceremoniously, slamming the door through which she disappears.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 9, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
To Our Readers.
The occupation of Memphis by the Federal forces, has convinced us of the
necessity of removing our office of publication to Granada, Miss.
In taking this step our principal motive has been to continue in a
position wherein we may be able to render efficient service to the cause we
advocate, hereafter as heretofore; and in accomplishing this, should we succeed,
we will find our greatest reward. Our
fate is indissolubly connected with that of the Confederacy.
Our political action in the past is well understood.
We cannot desert the one or change as to the other.
Our political ideas were not formed to be cast aside under any exigency
that can possibly happen; and so long as two or three States are gathered
together in the name of the Confederate States, so long will we be found
advocating, as zealously as ever, a continued resistance to the tyranny which a
haughty foe are endeavoring to establish over us. . . .
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 9, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Women Wanted!
Immediately
five or six machinists, with their Sewing Machines. Also eight or ten Seamstresses, to work on Government work at
Granada, Mississippi. Wages will be
paid daily or weekly, as desired by the operator, viz:
Three dollars per day for a lady with her machine, and from $1.25 to
$4.40 per day for Seamstresses.
Wm. M. Wilson,
At Ordnance Store,
June 2
Grenada, Miss.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 10, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Aid Wanted.--A card from the secretary of the Soldier's Aid Society has been
sent us, calling upon subscribers to the general fund of the association to make
good their contributions without delay. It
has been ascertained that the relief tendered will now be very acceptable to a
number of the families of those who are now in the service.
The response should be made promptly to Messrs. Porteront [sp?] or S. M.
Kawkins.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 10, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Who Lives in Memphis?
From
the Memphis Avalanche.]
The
question which forms the caption of our article were more easily answered if it
were in the negative--who does not live in Memphis?
Many of
the strongest advocates of the Confederacy have left us, where their
circumstances were such as to permit their leaving.
Hundreds have left Memphis for more southern locations in advance of the
approach of the Federal fleet; among these were many who though indifferent to
political revolutions, feared the coming power, and among these were many of the
best and most useful citizens of Memphis.
All
soldiers or attaches of the Confederate armies have left Memphis.
All the
banking institutions, with presidents, tellers, cashiers and accountants, have
left Memphis, with very few exceptions.
Our
late ruler, the commander of the post, Colonel Rosner, than whom there is no
more affable gentlemanly, kindly, able or kind hearted officer, has left
Memphis. Col. McKisick, our late
provost marshal, who discharged the onerous and often unpleasant duties imposed
upon him with so ardent a desire "to do right," as to have earned for
himself the hearty commendations of those ever having "to do" with
him, has left Memphis.
The
telegraph operators, with their popular chief, Col. Coleman, have all left
Memphis.
Many of
the best physicians of the city, of its most able, most admired men and women,
have left Memphis.
Then
"Who lives in Memphis?" Its
civilians. We use the word in contradistinction to politician as to
soldier. The men with whom
the duties and inclinations of domesticity have rendered business, home, and
pursuits of literature or art, paramount to the more boisterous attractions of
military distinction--men, civilians in taste and in occupation, form now the
population of Memphis.
Not
only is Memphis extra civilian in its population now, but also in its
possessions. All arms, all
munitions of war, the very sinews of war, (the banks) all down to the last pound
of commissary bacon, and the last pound of commissary flour, have been removed,
and the leavings in civilian possessions themselves are also of the meagerest.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 11, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Grenada.
This place has now become a point of so much interest that
a word or two of description may not come amiss to our distant readers.
It is a pretty little town of fifteen hundred or two thousand
inhabitants, situated on the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad, about ninety
miles from Memphis. In time of
peace, thrifty and enterprising, resounding with the busy hum of industry; the
stern necessities of war have made it one of the important military depots of
the Confederacy. Its warehouses and
public edifices are occupied by the Government, hospitals dot its suburbs, and
its private residences are filled with officers, soldiers and refugees, who have
for the moment fled hither to escape Yankee rule and imprisonment.
As yet, its affairs are unsettled, but under the judicious administration
of General Villipigue, who had to-day assumed command of the post, a few days
will doubtless find the town wearing even a more martial aspect than it has done
in the past. Up to this time, the
commandant has been Major N. R. Chambliss, a gentleman to whom the citizens have
been indebted for the admiral discipline and order which has been maintained in
the past. The responsibility
attached to an official position is at any time onerous, but the delicate and
courteous manner in which Major Chambliss has conducted affairs has won for him
the warm regard of the citizens, and indeed all with whom he has come in
contact. May his mantle fall upon
his successor. Gen. Villipigue is a
South Carolinian, and until the evacuation, which he conducted in a masterly
manner, was the officer commanding at Fort Pillow.
Major Chambless resumes his command as chief of ordnance.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 12, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
The Fall of Shiloh Church.
No one who visits Pittsburg Landing has [fold in paper]
pilgrimage to Shiloh Church, and few have returned without bearing home with
them a piece of the church as a trophy.
Shiloh
Church is now in ruins. Like the Southern Confederacy, its backbone was sometime
since broken by the continual abstraction of portions of the building.
The door frame had been cut away, and the logs had but little support.
On last Thursday Capt. Shunk and Dr. Hamlen visited the church, and took
lunch in it. After the doctor had
vanished, and while Capt. Shunk was yet eating, the doctor approached the side
of the house near the door, to speak to a man on the outside. A gun was leaning against the side of the h house, one of the
logs, as it afterward appeared, resting upon the point.
While speaking, he involuntarily took hold of the gun, and finding it was
held by the logs, gave it a sudden jerk, loosing it from the logs, when the
whole building fell with a terrible crash.
The doctor and Capt. Shunk, with rare presence of mind, jumped between
the sleepers, where the lower floor had been removed, where they were buried,
receiving a number of bruises. The
noise of the falling building drew quickly a large crowd, who hastened to
release the buried men from their prison. Dr.
Hamlen bears home with him seven bruises, and Capt. Shunk, quite a number,
including an ugly gash over his eye. We
have seen clapboards and splinters of all sizes almost, carried away from this
church. We shall now expect to see
entire logs borne home by gatherers of relics.--Evansville Journal.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Letter from a Lady.
Memphis, June 10, 1862.
Editor's Appeal: I send you some
Yankee papers of the latest date, that are in this place. ... The Yankees thus
far are on very good behavior. Col.
Fitch, it is hoped, is not such a beast as Butler.
So far as I can learn, not a scrap of a Federal flag has yet been hung
out save by the invaders themselves, and not a single instance of a Memphian
greeting the enemy cordially, if I may except that of my little three year old
boy. Yesterday he was standing on
the sidewalk and a squad of Yankees passed by him.
The little rascal ran in among them and in the most cordial manner
shouted at the top of his lungs, "Howdy, soldier!
howdy, soldier! howdy,
soldier!" shaking hands with half a dozen of them, who seemed delighted at
such a warm demonstration of sympathy--the first they had met with since landing
on our bluff. But while in the
midst of his hand-shaking he screamed out:
"Now go shoot the Yankees! go
shoot all the Yankees! shoot the
Yankees!" It was funny to see
the change that came over their smiling faces; and the people on the sidewalks,
who witnessed the scene, broke out into a big laugh.
Our citizens are extremely anxious to get Southern papers, that we may
have at least one grain of truth to rely on.
M.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 14, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
A
Woman's Thoughts on Bonnets.--The bonnet is the frame to the picture.
A pretty face wants the setting to add lustre [sic] to its loveliness.
A homely one hopes, by a happy combination of tints, to soften its
ugliness, or to suggest a beauty it does not possess. The present bonnets look like coal scuttles, and will hardly
succeed in making any one look handsomer. In
their anxiety to grow large all of a sudden, they have burst out behind as well
as before. They may be decided
stylish, but they are not graceful. A
high-pointed shelf protruding over the forehead, and a bag of lace hanging out
of the crown, large enough for a work-pocket, is anything but artistic.
Still, it is refreshing to see heads crowned with flowers, instead of
feathers. To me there was always an
incongruity in the thought of robbing poor ostriches and smaller birds of their
pretty tails, in order to trick out feminine heads.
But flowers are a natural ornament.
Doubtless one of the first things which Eve did was to knot flowers in
her hair, and to this day flowers and rare imitations of flowers, make the most
simple and beautiful adorning of her multiplied daughters.
The most graceful spring hat worn is the simple straw void the silk or
lace crown, trimmed with budded green, or violet tints, and clusters of spring
flowers.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 21, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Five
Indispensable Articles of a Soldier's Equipment.--"There are five things a
soldier ought never to be without, viz: his
musket, his catridge [sic] box, his knapsack, his previsions [sic] for at least
four days, and his pioneer hatchet. Reduce
his knapsack, if you deem it necessary to do so, to the smallest size, but let
the soldier always have it with them."
In his knapsack he should have a complete change of clothing, but
especially underclothing, several pairs of thick and soft woolen socks, a pair
of stout, broad soled and low heeled shoes, a tooth brush, a coarse comb, a pair
of scissors, needles and thread, towels and soap.
On his knapsack should be strapped his overcoat and blankets; and
attached thereto should be a tin plate and cup.
Knife, fork, and spoon, in a sheath, could be fastened to his waist
belt.--Atlanta Confederacy.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 23, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
A Heroic Woman.
One of the most heroic acts of the war has just been
reported to us, as having occurred near Germantown, Tenn.
Two Federal soldiers entered the dwelling of an old citizen, and after
being well treated, they demanded the old gentleman's money, and one of the
ruffians sought to force a compliance with their demand by leveling his gun at
the head of the house. The old lady
interposed herself between the gun of the miscreant and her husband, and while
the coward hesitated to shoot, a daughter of the aged couple came from an
adjoining room, and seeing the situation of efforts, seized a double-barreled
shot gun, with which she shot the ruffian through the head, killing him
instantly. His companion fled,
while the inmates of the house remained uninjured.
The heroism of that gallant young lady will be remembered when the
history of the war is written.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 23, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
There
are many widows in Nashville, says the Union,
who have no way of supporting themselves and their families but by daily labor,
and there is nothing for them to do. There
are many stout, healthy men, who depend on their trades or jobs of work to
obtain bread and clothing for their little children, and they can find no
employment. The war has either
annihilated their business, or reduced it to one-half or one-fourth of what it
formerly was. So much for the
realization of the benefits which were to follow the rule of Andy Johnson.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 28, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
The Memphis Ladies.
In one of his late letters from the Bluff city, the
correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, makes the following remarks about
the fashions in Memphis:
Southern ladies have always been ahead of their Northern sisters in the adoption
of the latest styles. Paris fashion
plates, previous to the war, found more attentive students in New Orleans than
New York. But the blockade put a
sudden stop to the frequent changes from moire antique to some other
outrageously named article of dress, and left the Dixianic bon ton to make such
amendments as their prudence might dictate to the repudiated styles of the
spring of 1861.
Southern fashions since the inauguration of the great struggle for the rights of
cotton, have been characterized by a plainness and simplicity that would be
creditable had they the recommendative quality of being voluntary.
But the facts do not warrant the belief that they were.
The
attenuated forms of many of the fair Memphians led me at first to conclude that
a less circuitous equipage than that worn in the "vulgar North" had
been agreed upon--that the fair sex had entirely discarded the article so
renowned for the poetic charm it gives the wearer, and the prosaic manner in
which it takes up the whole sidewalk. But
on inquiry I learned that the blockade had made a virtue of a necessity--that
the expansive attire was the one most admired, but that the collapsed edition
had been adopted as unavoidable--in short, that the article of female wearing
apparel best understood by the term crinoline, was difficult to obtain, hence
the patriotic daughters of the sunny South had to appear in a condensed form.
Now that the trade with the North has been resumed, the Memphian ladies
will again assume balloon proportions, I suppose.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 28, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
From the Columbus Enquirer.
Every Soldier his own Physician.
Editor Enquirer:--Horrified at the rabidity [sic?] with which our
soldiers die in camp, we are tempted to give them the following recipes, the
result of some experience, in hopes that some may be saved by using remedies
simple, safe, and generally sure cures:
To Prevent Sickness.—Have a jug of salted vinegar, seasoned with
pepper, and take a mouthful just before going to bed.
The salt and vinegar make a near approach to the digestive gastric juice
of the stomach, and are besides antidotes to many of the vegetable and miasmatic
poisons.
For Pneumonia, Colds, and Coughs.—Take half a cup or less of salted
pepper vinegar, fill the cup nearly full of warm water and then stir in a raw
well beaten egg slowly. Take a
mouthful every 15 or 20 minutes; in the intervals slowly suck on a piece of
alum. If the attack is violent, dip
a cloth in halt salted pepper vinegar and apply it round the throat, covering
with dry cloths to get up a steam, and do the same to the chest.
For Chills.—Put a tablespoonful of salted pepper vinegar in a cup of
warm water, go to bed and drink; in two hours drink a cup of strong water-willow
bark tea; in two hours more another tablespoonful of the vinegar and warm water,
and so on, alternating, until the fever is broken up.
After sweating, and before going into the out-door air, the body ought
always to be wiped off with a cloth dipped in cold water.
Dogwood will do if water-willow cannot be obtained.
For Measles.—Put a small piece yeast in a tumbler of warm sweetened
water, let it draw, and drink a mouthful every 15 or 20 minutes, and drink
plentifully of cold or hot catnip, balson [sic], hoarhound [sic], or alder tea;
and use in place of oil or salts, one tablespoonful salted pepper vinegar,
melted together and taken warm. Take
once a day, if necessary—keep out of the wet and out-door air.
For Diarrhoea.—A teaspoonful of the salted pepper vinegar every one or
two hours. Take teaspoonful of the puffs that grow round oak twigs,
powdered fine; take twice a day in one tablespoonful of brandy, wine or cordial.
If these yellow puffs cannot be found, suck frequently on a piece of
alum. The quantity of alum depends
upon the severity of the attack; take slowly and little at a time.
For Camp Fevers.—One tablespoonful of salted pepper vinegar, slightly
seasoned, and put into a cup of warm water—drink and often, from 4 to 8
cupfuls a day, with fever or without fever.
Pour a cupful more or less of the salted pepper vinegar into cold water,
and keep the body, particularly the stomach and head, well bathed with a cloth
dipped in it. Give enemas of cold
water, and for oil use a tablespoonful molasses, a teaspoonful of lard, and a
teaspoonful pepper vinegar, melted together and taken warm.
If the pepper is too exciting for delicate patients, leave it out in
drinks and bathings, and use simply the salt and vinegar in water, and very
little salt.
Antidote for Drunkenness: For
the Benefit of Officers.—One cup of strong black black [sic?] coffee without
milk or sugar, and twenty drops of laudanum.
Repeat the dose if necessary. Or
take one teaspoonful of tincture lobelia in a tumbler of milk; if taken every
ten or fifteen minutes it will act as an emetic; taken in longer intervals, say
thirty minutes, it will act as an antidote.
The Yankees declared that poisoned liquor was put on the counters to
poison their soldiers. No body
doubts liquor being poisoned, but it was made of poisons to sell to our own
Southern boys; and it is horrifying to think of the liquors now being made down
in cellars, of sulphuric acid, strychnine, buckeye, tobacco leaves, coloring
matter and rainwater. For this
poisoned liquor, the best antidote is an emetic, say lobelia and warm salt and
water, and then drink freely of sugared vinegar water.
For Snake Bites.—The best thing is one teaspoonful of Lobelia and ten
drops of Ammonia, taken every few minutes, and a bottle filled with Lobelia and
Ammonia, will answer without the other. Tobacco,
Nightshade, or Kurtle Barr [Bark?], or Deer-tongue, (a rough-leafed herb, in
flower and appearance like to bog artichoke) stewed in milk; drink the milk,
using the rest as a poultice. The
last is an Indian remedy, and will cure in the agonies of death.
For the Chicken Cholera now Devastating Fowldom.—Put one or two
Jamestown weed leaves, properly called Stramonium, into the water trough every
day—fresh leaves and fresh water. This
is one of the triumphs of Homeopathy, for we were just from a perusal of one of
their works, and finding that the chickens died and made no sign of sickness,
except holding the head down, we concluded the head must be the seat of the
plague, and reading that Stramonium affected the brain with mania and stupor, we
tried it, and have not lost a chicken since we have used it.
If other papers will copy these recipes, they will save many lives, now
sacrificed to the negligence of salaried physicians.
The Eastern monarch's plan ought to be adopted, to strike off a certain
per cent. of a Doctor's salary every time he loses a patient—that would soon
stop the feast of Death.
X.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], June 28, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
Epsom Salts.--Messrs. Sensabaugh, Mingus, & Long, says the Augusta
Chronicle, send us a specimen of Epsom salts manufactured by them from a cave in
Smokey mountain, between North Carolina and Tennessee. They are now making 300 pounds of Epsom salts and 4000 pounds
of alum daily. The salts are said
to be superior to any heretofore sold in the South, and the alum is equal.
The manufacturers say they will be able to supply the whole Southern
Confederacy with these necessary articles.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 1, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
A Female Prisoner.
Some excitement was created on Thursday by the arrival of a
female prisoner, in the uniform of a fille du regiment.
She is said to have been for some months following the 3d regiment of
East Tennessee renegades in Kentucky. Her
name we learn is Sallie Taylor; she is from Anderson county, where she has
respectable relations. She was
captured somewhere in the neighborhood of Jacksboro.
An examination before the provost marshal, we understand, elicited some
valuable information from this romantic damsel in regard to the movements of the
enemy.--Knoxville Register.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 2, 1862, p. 1, c. 1
Taylor & McEwen
As we can neither collect money due us, nor buy goods on time, we must sell for cash or close our doors. Our friends will readily discover the necessity for selling
Exclusively for Cash!
Fine
Gray and Blue Military cloths;
Military Caps, fine Cavalry Boots, Army Shoes;
Fine Scarlet and Green Military Sashes;
Superfine Linen Shirting Checks;
Gray Tweeds, Jeans, Satinets and Shirtings;
Blue and Gray Army Blankets;
Blue and Brown Homespun Jeans;
Homespun Socks, Stockings and Linseys
Osnaburgs,
DeLaines,
Spinning Wheels
Tent Ducks
Merinoes
Winding Reels,
Brown Drillings
Poplins
Wool Rolls,
Kentucky Twills,
Scotch Plaids,
Wool Cards,
"
Linseys,
DeBeges,
Clock Reels,
Georgia "
Alpaccas,
Cotton Yarns,
"
Kerseys,
Plaid Flannels
Cotton Cards,
Brown Jeans
"
Linseys,
Carpet Warps,
Plaid Domestic,
Fine Flannels
Coats' Spools,
Striped
"
Fine Domestics
Spool Flax,
Brogans,
White Goods,
Sewing Silks,
Negro Blankets
Shawls,
Blue Knit Cotton,
Mattresses
Calicoes,
Bleached and
Feathers,
French Calicoes
Brown Cotton,
Pillows,
Linen Hdkfs.,
Knitting Needles,
Comforts
Silk
"
Sewing "
Tickings
Wool Hose
Merino Shirts,
Wool Hats,
Cotton "
"
Drawers
Shirtings,
Corsets,
Table Cloths,
Check Shirtings
White Sheetings,
Fine Soaps,
Striped "
Pillow Casings,
Towels, Crash,
Calico "
Hoop Skirts
Stair Cloth,
Carpets!
We have ever on hand a large stock of the above and other seasonable
goods. Further supplies arriving.
We will take Confederate Bonds, Treasury Notes, Mississippi Notes,
Arkansas War Bonds, Cotton, Wool, Wheat, corn, Rye, Hides, Dried Fruits, Peas,
Socks, Jeans, Linseys, Butter, Eggs, etc., at market value, in payment of
accounts or for goods.
CASH paid for WOOL--washed or in the dirt.
Taylor & McEwen.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 9, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Treatment of Mrs. M. C. Gallaway of Memphis.
The arrest of this estimable lady, the wife of Col. M. C.
Gallaway, well known as the founder and editor of the Memphis Avalanche
in its palmy days, and late Postmaster at Memphis, is mentioned in the Memphis
papers of the 7th inst. The ground
of the arrest is stated to be that she was detected in "treasonable
correspondence" with the enemy, (which probably means that she had received
several letters from her husband and other parties South,) and the penalty of
the offense by special order of Gen. Grant was her immediate expulsion from the
lines of the Federal army. We learn
that this man Grant detailed a Federal officer to execute h is brutal order,
instructing him to carry Mrs. Gallaway outside the picket lines, and leave her
there in the woods amid the darkness of the night without baggage, shelter or
provisions. The officer, however,
having more of the gentleman and less of the brute about him than his superior,
kindly proffered to carry his lady prisoner to the nearest house without the
lines, which he did, upon a guaranty from Mrs. G. that he should not be molested
by our pickets. She is now at
Hernando, and will arrive here this evening.
Col.
Gallaway has a valuable and splendid mansion at Memphis, which with its handsome
furniture and other contents, will of course be seized by the vandals with the
view of confiscation. His ardent
and early devotion to the Southern cause, his uncompromising and zealous
hostility to every thing that savored of disloyalty to the Confederate States,
and his bold and fearless castigation of treason and traitors while wielding the
editorial quill, have thus forced himself into exile, and invited this most
infamous outrage upon his wife.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 9, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Movements of the Enemy Near Holly Springs.
Holly Springs, July 8.
Editors
Appeal: I will endeavor to give a
statement of the Hessian's last visit to our city and county.
Gen. W. T. Sherman's command, as near as can be ascertained, fourteen to
fifteen thousand strong, came down to Cold Water, on the road leading from this
place to Lagrange, and pitched their tents on the 29th ult., and on the 1st
instant they made us a visit. ... On the morning of the 5th instant, their
troops were going at large over every part of the city.
Not a residence escaped their visits; they were getting into kitchens,
going into family rooms, where they found the doors not barred against them,
ordering their breakfast to be prepared, threatening to cut throats or kill, if
they were not obeyed, and alarming many timid men and women.
They also destroyed our gardens. Towards
evening they loaded up ten wagons with sugar and molasses, belonging, in part,
to the poor and indigent families of the county, which had been laid in for
their support; the balance belonging to private individuals.
They left our city that evening for their camp.
On yesterday, from some cause, they broke up their camp early in the day,
and left burning up about two thousand bushels of corn and other supplies they
had gathered in the neighborhood.
They
have overrun about half of our county, stealing and destroying everything they
could lay their hands on--not leaving a barrel of corn or a piece of meat.
They not only killed the stock for food, but, in many cases, killed every
cow, hog, or sheep they saw--destroyed the growing crop, taking every garment of
clothing that could be of any use to them, and, to close their villainous acts,
committed outrages on unprotected females.
One of the most horrid acts was perpetrated upon a highly respectable and
intelligent lady, one of the first families in our county, a mother of a large
family. A squad of some dozen or
more of their hellish fiends forcibly entered her house, and, in presence of her
screaming little children, outraged her person.
Will not the avenging hand of God be raised to avenge such horrid acts,
if the men of Mississippi will not do it? Not
an arm has been raised, as yet, in resistance, and there are not less than two
thousand able-bodied men in this county staying at home.
I have
not described half of their damning and hellish acts.
I will give one more. A
young married man, with a wife and infant child, living near their camp, an
officer had arrested without any pretended offence, taken from his screaming
wife, carried off and put under guard--his wretched wife forced back into her
room, and an officer quartered in his house.
All of his negroes were frightened off, or forcibly taken.
When the young man, next day, was released, he returned home to find his
poor wife in an insensible state, lying on the floor, his poor little infant
screaming by her, calling for nourishment.
When last heard from she was still insensible.
A brother-in-law of this young man went to Gen. Sherman to represent this
case. He was arrested and carried
off a prisoner. All of the horses
and mules of any value, and over two hundred negroes, have been taken from their
owners.
M.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 10, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
To
prevent flies from teasing horses. Take
two or three small handsful of walnut leaves, upon which pour two or three
quarts of soft cold water; let it infuse one night, and pour the whole, next
morning, into a kettle, and let it boil for a quarter of an hour.
When cold it will be fit for use. No
more is required than to wet a sponge, and before the horse goes out of the
stable let those parts which are most irritated be smeared over with the liquor;
between and upon the ears, the neck, the flank, etc.
Not only the lady or gentleman who rides out for pleasure will derive a
benefit from the leaves thus prepared, but the coachman, the wagoner, and all
others who use horses during the hot months.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 10, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
The Federals in North Mississippi.
Correspondence
of the Cincinnati Commercial.]
Lagrange, Tenn., July 1.-- . . . When we entered Holly Springs the ladies came
running out, saying, "Where are those Yankees you promised to bring?"
repeating it several times. They supposed us Jackson's cavalry. We very politely informed them that we were the Yankees, and
more of them were close at hand. Several
citizens had their horses saddled and bridled, ready to join Jackson, when we
arrived, and when we came into the city they mounted their horses ready for a
march, which they had the pleasure of taking--as prisoners of war.
While we were in the street one lady came running out, and exclaimed, to
her utmost extent, "I want to shake hands with an Ohioan, as I have never
seen one since this rebellion broke out, and am a Union lady, but dare not speak
my opinion, or else I would be dealt with accordingly."
Her husband was sought for by the rebels, to be put to death for his
Union sentiments, but she had him so secreted that they could not find him.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 10, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
Lost, this morning, a pair of spectacles, glasses set in tortoise shell.
The finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving them at the Appeal
Counting Room.
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MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 11, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Cabbage Salad.--Chop enough cabbage fine to fill a vegetable dish.
Heat a coffee cup of strong vinegar, with a lump of butter in it the size
of a small egg. Pepper and salt.
When hot, beat an egg very light and stir in; then pour all on to the
chopped cabbage.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Letter from Mobile.
Mobile, Ala., July 12, 1862.
Editors Appeal: ...
Strange
as it may appear, it is nevertheless true.
There are persons here residing who cling to the Union ideas of our
enemies; but they are of the ignorant class, and females who were born and
reared in the North. A goodly
number of our population is composed of natives of the Eastern States, and they
are as harmless here as they would be in their Puritanical homes.
Notwithstanding the warm weather, Dauphin street is thronged every morning,
between eight o'clock and noon, with ladies on "shopping" expeditions.
True, many of them do not make any purchases; but, then, you know, they
want "to see and be seen." As
was the custom on Main street, in Memphis, it is here; the men gather on the
corners and ogle the belles as they lightly trip along the flags, and on the
crossings gracefully lift the dress just high enough to show a pretty foot with
a delicately-turned ankle. The
scene is a very attractive one, and appears to be enjoyed by both parties. The throng of officers and soldiers who may be seen at all
hours of the day on Royal street, and in other popular thoroughfares, are not
behind civilians in this *manly* pastime of staring at the belles of the city
who go upon the pavements.
...
Bustamente.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Cotton Cards!
8
dozen cotton cards,
25 barrels Fine Molasses,
14 gross 2 oz. Panual Via's [?]. For
sale by French & McGee,
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Senatobia, Miss.
July
24, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
To make hard tallow candles.--Wm. Summer, of Pomaria, S. C., furnishes the
following to the Charleston Courier:
To one
pound of tallow take five or six leaves of the prickly pear, (cactus opuntia,)
split them and boil in the tallow, without water, for half an hour of more;
strain and mould the candles. The
wicks should have previously dipped in spirits of turpentine and dried.
If the
tallow at first is boiled in water, and the water changed four or five times, it
will be bleached and rendered free from impurities.
Then prepare, by frying with prickly pears, to harden it.
In this
way we have made tallow candles nearly equal to the best adamantine.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 25, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Rules for Health.
1. If your
clothes take fire, slide the hands down the dress, keeping them as close to the
body as possible, at the same time sinking to the floor by bending the knees;
this has a smothering effect upon the flames.
If not extinguished, a great headway is gotten, lie down on the floor,
roll over and over, or, better, envelope yourself in a carpet rug, bed cloth or
any other garment you can get hold of, always preferring woolen.
2.
If the body is tired, rest; if the brain is tired, sleep.
3.
If the bowels are loose, lie down in a warm bed, and remain there, and
eat nothing until you are well.
4.
If an action of the bowels does not occur at the usual hour, eat not an
atom until they do act, at least for thirty-six hours; meanwhile drink largely
of cold water or hot teas, and exercise in the open air to the extent of a
general perspiration, and keep this up until things are righted.
This suggestion, if practiced, would save many lives every year, both in
the city and in the country.
5.
The three best medicines in the world are warmth, abstinence and repose.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 25, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Special to the Memphis Appeal.]
Senatobia, July 15.--Hundreds of men, women and children have arrived from
Memphis by every possible conveyance, many of them on foot.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 26, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
The Girl with the Calico Dress.
by Robert Josselyn.
A
fig for your upper ten girls,
With their velvets, satins and laces,
Their diamonds, and rubies, and pearls,
And their milliner figures and faces;
They may shine at a party or ball,
Emblazon'd with half they possess,
But give me in place of them all
My girl with the calico dress.
She
is plump as a partridge, as fair
As those in the earliest bloom;
Her teeth will with ivory compare,
And her breath with the clover perfume,
Her step is as free and as light
As the fawn's whom the hunters do press,
And her eye is as soft and as bright,
My girl with the calico dress.
Your
dandies and foplings may sneer
At her modest and simple attire,
But the charms she permits to appear
Would set a whole iceberg on fire.
She can dance, but she never allows
The hugging, the squeeze and caress,
She is saving all these for her spouse,
My girl with the calico dress.
She
is cheerful, warm-hearted and true,
And kind to her father and mother,
She studies how much she can do
For her sweet little sister and brother.
If you want a companion for life,
To comfort, enliven and bless,
She is just the right sort of a wife,
My girl with the calico dress.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 29, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Refugees.--For some days past our town has been thronged by refugees from
Memphis, driven from there by Federal order No. 1.
Among others, we are glad to welcome our old friend and neighbor, Wm.
Kenan Hill, commission merchant, relative to whom some unfounded reports,
prejudicial to his character as a loyal citizen to the south, had got
circulation. We presume there is no
man more true to the Southern cause, than Mr. Hill, and he has evinced his
loyalty by exiling himself and family rather than come under the obligations of
the required Federal oath.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], July 29, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Letter from a Refugee.
Oxford, Miss., July 28, 1862.
Editors Appeal: I have just arrived
here from Memphis to escape the government of the once United but now infamous
States. . . . Without being subject to any order yet issued, I felt compelled to
fly to the standard of my country at all the expense of heart-rending separation
from my family, my daughter being too weak from typhus fever to allow of removal
within the time limited for the exodus. Many
wives and sisters and mothers of Memphis are in tears, almost heart-broken, and
the anguish of thousands is extreme. The
true men are flying for freedom and vengeance, rather than from fear of
imprisonment. I understand the orders occasioning all this distress were
issued at the instance of some such scoundrels of our own citizens as had taken
the oath, heartily and voluntarily. . . .
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 8, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
M'Allister's Advertisements.
1.
Cotton cards, for $10 a pair, at McAllister's.
2. Black calico, for $1 per yard,
at McAllister's.
3. French Ginghams, for $1.25 per
yard, at McAllister's.
4. and 5. J. & P. coats'
Genuine 200 yds. Spool Thread, for 60c. per spool, or $7 per doz., at
McAllister's.
6. 100 dozen Maddrass [sic]
Handkerchiefs for $9 per dozen, at McAllister's.
7. English shoes, for $9 and $10
per pair, at J. C. McAllister's, State Street, Jackson, Miss.
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MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 9, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
A Dangerous Lady.
Letters to Northern papers from the Valley contain very
little of importance. One thus
describes a very dangerous lady:
Mrs.
Charles J. Faulkner is the wiliest and most experienced diplomat in the Valley
of Virginia. She is more dangerous than Belle Boyd, because she is more
adroit, and has larger social influence and greater means of accomplishing her
purposes. She is even now almost
nightly inviting coteries of our young officers to her house.
She and her two daughters lavish their most courtly blandishments upon
them, and, ere they know it, ere they have perceived their purpose, all the
intelligence they desire is extracted. As
a matter of course, our plans, our movements, the number of our troops, and the
direction of their march, of the number in garrison, are duly transmitted to
Richmond by the by-way post-routes which the rebels have all through this
Valley.
Ought
not these dangerous women, with their precious freight of intelligence, skill
and secession proclivities, be sent, under honorable escort, through our lines
as far as Gordonsville, and be kindly permitted to join their relatives in
Richmond? Many a valuable item of
information which now finds its way to Stonewall Jackson, would never be sent in
case they were quietly forwarded, per express, to those with whom they so deeply
sympathise [sic].
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
A Timely and Patriotic Contribution.
The history of the siege and bombardment of Vicksburg
furnishes many commendable instances of self-sacrificing patriotism, but none
more so than the general conduct of the ladies. One of the many acts of devotion they exhibited has just come
to our knowledge, which is certainly worthy of record.
The
gunboats were at Natchez, and our troops were looking for them daily.
Twelve good guns were in battery below the city, and everything ready for
action except cartridge bags for the 10-inch columbiads.
The cartridge bags have to be made of flannel.
The commander sent messengers to all the stores in town, but could find
no flannel. It had all been used in
making shirts for the many volunteer companies that had left the city.
He then sent messengers on the streets to appeal to the men to give their
flannel shirts for cartridge bags. The
ladies heard of his appeal and the absolute importance of the cartridge bags.
In a few hours from the time he made the appeal no less than *five
hundred cartridge bags* were deposited at headquarters, made of the *flannel
petticoats* of the women of Vicksburg. They
were sent to the batteries, and when the fleet did arrive, were used in defense
of the place. The cartridge bags
used by the 10 inch columbiads in the bombardment were made of the flannel
petticoats of the women of Vicksburg, to whom be all honor and praise.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 14, 1862, p. 1, c. 8
A Noble Example.--E. McGehee, proprietor of the Woodville Factory, we are
informed, has been and is still furnishing the quartermaster's department, for
the use of the army, with a good article of Lowels at twenty-five cents a yard,
and linseys at seventy-five cents a yard. He
refuses the current and exorbitant prices demanded by the haberdashers,
hucksters and Jew extortioners, and sells to the government to clothe its brave
and sometimes almost naked heroes at one-half the market price.
What a noble example of disinterested and lofty
patriotism!--Mississippian.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
The Custom of Wearing Mourning for Our Gallant Dead.
. .
. When so many households throughout the South are called upon to mourn the loss
of dear ones, the custom of wearing mourning adds greatly to expenditure and
detracts to that extent from our ability to maintain this unequal struggle.
It is unnecessary to remark that such goods are now very scarce and
costly, and many are compelled, in obedience to custom, to make sacrifices which
they cannot well afford. Let the wealthy classes set the example in this respect.
Our gallant dead, who have poured out their life's blood in defense of
our liberty, will be none the less remembered.
"A nation swells the funeral cry,
And triumph weeps above the brave."
[Mobile Advertiser.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 16, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
A
Female Volunteer.--In calling the roll of a regiment of conscripts who had just
entered the camp of instruction at Raleigh, North Carolina, last week, one more
"man" was present than was called for by the list.
The Winston Sentinel says:
"This, of course, involved an investigation, when it was discovered that
the featured of one claiming to be a conscript were quite too fair and fine for
one of the sterner sex. The soldier
was charged of being a female, when she confessed the truth and acknowledged
that she had determined to accompany her friends in the perils of war, and
avenge the death of a brother who fell in the fight near Richmond.
We have heard nothing in any degree to implicate the good character and
standing of the gallant heroine.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
A Romantic Incident.
The Tupelo correspondent of the Mississippian narrates
quite an interesting little incident connected with the occupation of Courtland,
Alabama, by the Federals, and its recapture by our troops.
The writer says:
The
Federals had held Courtland for some time, and, as is their wont, inflicted many
insults upon its unarmed citizens without regard to sex.
Among the abused and insulted of the fair sex was the belle of Courtland,
a lady of high accomplishments, great amiability, and considerable wealth.
Exasperated and justly vindictive, this fair one announced publicly that
whoever should either kill or capture the miscreant who had thus shamefully
insulted her, should receive her hand and fortune. Not many days after this avowal, Frank Armstrong's command
defeated the Yankees at Courtland, capturing the place, together with many
prisoners, among whom was Captain Robertson, the dastardly villain whose little
soul had permitted him to be insolent to a refined lady, and who had forgotten
that "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" or insulted.
The
wretch, Robinson--faugh!--showed his cowardice early in the action, and
surrendered his sword to Capt. Champion, of Missouri, whose dauntless bravery in
this as on many former occasions has made his name familiar to the army.
Capt. Champion was ignorant, until when about leaving Courtland, of the
romance connected with his captive. The
lady sent him a present of a splendid pair of holsters, accompanied by an
earnest request to visit her. But,
alas for romance, war is inexorable, and without being granted time to visit the
fair charmer whom he had avenged, Capt. Champion was obliged to leave the scene
of his conquest. Since his return
the captain has avowed his intention of returning to see his affianced, and we
predict that his handsome figure will not prove uncomely to the lady's eyes.
Robinson is now a prisoner at Columbus, Mississippi.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Thos. Leech
C. H. Rigdon.
Novelty Works,
Columbus, Mississippi.
Leech & Rigdon,
Manufacturers of
Army Cutlery and of Brass
Mountings,
For Army Equipments.
Gun Mountings, Spurs, etc.
We have further increased our capacity and are now manufacturing a very
superior
Navy Repeater,
On the same plan and fully equal to Colt's patent.
Our Swords
Are already well known. We continue to make them, and at old prices, from $25 to $100, according to style of finish.
All orders accompanied by the cash will be promptly attended to.
Leech & Rigdon,
Columbus, Miss.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 20, 1862, p. 2, c. 2 [note, there have been many previous articles on salt]
Salt for Tennessee.
As very great anxiety has been felt on the part of the
people of Tennessee in consequence of the inadequate supply of salt, and the
exorbitant prices at which the little in market is being sold, amounting almost
to prohibition to the indigent, they will be pleased to learn, as stated by the
Chattanooga Rebel, that Gov. Harris, several weeks since, with his accustomed
energy, turned his attention to the matter, and finally succeeded in effecting
an agreement with Messrs. Stewart, Buchanan & co., the owners of the salt
works in Virginia, by which he expects to secure the manufacture of a limited
supply of salt for the exclusive use of Tennessee.
The
owners of the works, by reason of the heavy contracts already on hand, were
unable to undertake the supply of any part of the salt themselves, but agreed
with the governor to dispose of the use of the water for that purpose, on
liberal terms, to such parties as he might designate.
Under
and by virtue of this agreement with the proprietors of the works, Gov. Harris
has entered into a contract with Messrs. McClung & Jacques, highly
respectable, energetic and responsible parties of Knoxville, Tennessee, who are
to manufacture this article exclusively for the use of the State, and supply it
to them at reasonable rates, in no event to exceed two dollars and seventy-five
cents per bushel of fifty pounds, with actual cost of transportation to points
of delivery. . .
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 21, 1862, p. 1, c. 2--[Summary:
"Song of the First Kentucky Regiment" to the tune of "The
Captain With His Whiskers"]
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 21, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
. . . In Nashville the feeling of bitter hatred toward the cowardly,
white-livered scoundrels who pollute the sidewalks with their degrading
presence, grows more deep and lasting every day.
As I was passing up Cottage street I saw two ladies turn off the sidewalk
into the street to avoid meeting two richly-caparisoned Yankee officers, coming
in an opposite direction. Incidents
of this kind are of every-day occurrence. The
ladies of the Rock city (God bless their patriotic souls) would sooner drag
their flowing robes in the mud of the streets any time than be contaminated by
contact with these vile invaders of their homes. They shun them as they would the cannibals of south America,
or the Thugs of India. Let no one
doubt that Tennessee is all right. When
our victorious legions shall enter the "Old Volunteer State," driving
the vile invaders before them, the heartless mercenaries will be greeted on
every side, from rock, tree, and bush, by the keen crack of the country rifle,
as they keep step to the music of the singing bullets, sent as avenging
messengers for the outrages committed on defenseless citizens, women and
children.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 21, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Battle of Cedar Mountain
Correspondence
of the N. Y. Tribune.]
Culpeper, August 10.--
. . . When the fight commenced we sent a shell directly through the roof of Mrs.
Crittenden's house, when most of the family decamped. A Miss Crittenden, said to be comely and fair to look upon,
refused, however, to absent herself, and insisted upon remaining with the
wounded rebels, who were rapidly being carried to the house.
Directly a shell came hurtling down through the roof and floors into the
very apartment where the young lady was pouring in oil and wine.
It did not burst, however, and she remained till the end, doing good. The inhabitants of other domiciles, and among them the
reverend Slaughter, took to their heels early in the day.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 21, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Blacking.--A correspondent sends one of our contemporaries the following:
Fill a
snuff bottle nearly full of soot, from a common chimney, put in a good drink of
whisky, and the same quantity of vinegar, shake it well, and you have a
firstrate [sic] bottle of glossy blacking.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 22, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
The
East Tennessee correspondent of the Atlanta Intelligencer, writing from Clinton,
under date of the 13th inst., concludes his letter thus.
The
number of troops gathering here renders this a place of some interest.
It is situated on the Clinch river, twenty miles north of Knoxville. . .
. So far as one can judge, active movements are in contemplation.
Cooking utensils, baggage and tents, have been given up, and large
supplies of ammunition are being collected.
There are no armed enemies near us, except the skulking bushwhackers, and
they are getting extremely cautious in their movements.
It has been ascertained that some of our men know how to
"bushwhack."
General
Heth now commands the second division, the one to which we are attached.
He has ordered all the women who have been following his army to retire
from it upon its next move. By the
way, some of these women have been following the camps so long that they have
developed a decidedly Amazonian character.
It is said that when our brigade was leaving Knoxville, one of them put a
haversack around her neck, a gun on her shoulder, a knapsack on her back, a baby
on one arm, a pipe in her mouth, and, "accoutred [sic] as she was,"
marched the whole distance to our present camp, twenty miles.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 26, 1862, p. 1, c. 4
Attention Soldiers!--Fill your pockets with dried slippery elm bark when about
to take up the line of march for the battle-field or for a new encampment.
You will find that chewing it freely will greatly allay both thirst and
hunger.
The
slippery elm grows in abundance in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia
and Tennessee. I see that our
surgeons use it as a substitute for gum arabic.
It is to be hoped our patriotic and philanthropic friends in the country
will procure an abundant supply for our army--Savannah News.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], August 28, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
Watermelon.--Cucurbita Citrullus: The
seeds of watermelon are employed, to a considerable extent, as a remedy in
strangury and other affections of the urinary passages, and they are also highly
esteemed by many experienced physicians as a valuable diuretic.
They are given in infusion, made with one or two ounces of the bruised
seeds to a pint of boiling water and taken when cold ad libitum.
As this
is the season when watermelons are abundant, would it not be well for all
families to secure a sufficient supply of the seeds for medicinal purposes.
To preserve them, dry them in the sun for two days taking them in at
night.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
By Br. Tardy & Co., Auc'rs, Mobile, Ala.
Cargo Sale of Foreign Importations, ...
[includes,
among other things]
6 cases English Calicoes, Prints, 600 pieces,
1000 dozen Extra Spool Cotton, in tin cans,
Cane Stay Bindings, costly and valuable goods,
1800 lb pkgs. Extra Flax Thread, Nos. 30, 35, 40
75,000 Extra quality needles, assorted,
50 pkgs. Porcelaine [sic] Buttons,
66 pkgs. English Pins.
200 gross Extra Pearl Buttons,
50 6-lb pkgs Black Thread,
7 bbls. Copperas,
27 pkgs assorted Pencils,
---- pkgs. Gum Opium,
----ozs. Quinine, other drugs and medicines, and sundries
40 dozen French Linen Shirts,
20 pcs. English Co. linen musquito [sic] netting,
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 4, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Something for the Ladies.
We understand the ladies in the vicinity of Brook's Chapel, have had a
meeting for the purpose of contributing to the wants of Price's men, and have
gone to work with the spinning wheel and needle, in order to have as many socks
ready as possible to be sent to them before leaving this section.
Each one, from eight years up, is determined to knit one pair at
least--and they will do what they have promised.
This is a movement in the right direction and is another example as well
of the patriotism as [well?] as of the unconquerable spirit of our mothers and
daughters. We notice the circumstance not particularly to illustrate
their known patriotism but that other neighborhoods may have notice and that
there may be a concert of action on the part of others who are desirous of doing
likewise. Some ladies who cannot
get wool are making them of cotton--others of cotton and wool in equal
proportions, and those who have the material altogether of wool. One young lady, just from school, was asked if she would knit
one pair, who promptly replied, "yes, and five others."
The questioner thought prudent to propound no more in that shape.
A call for one pair seemed to her to imply a want of the true grit and
hence somewhat of indignation in her reply.
We are authorised [sic] to say that Dr. Wilbourne, an old citizen of the
county, will receive the socks when ready, and deliver them to Gen. Price.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 5, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
The cargo sale here yesterday did not last long.
Everything went off like a flash, at prices--well, we need say nothing
about the prices, but what people are to do for something to wear at the rates
now prevailing is more than we know. We
will soon all be literally in Miss Flora McFlimsey's case, with 'nothing to
wear.' And when auction cost is
added to retailer's profit, there is no knowing anything about the point to
which goods may not get.--Wilmington Journal, Aug. 29th.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 6, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
The Romance of War.
Our readers doubtless remember the story we published a few
weeks since connected with the taking of Courtland, Ala, by Gen. Armstrong, of
Gen. Price's army. A young lady of
that place had promised to bestow her hand and her fortune upon him who should
avenge the wrongs and insults she had suffered from a Federal officer.
She was avenged, as the story goes, by Capt. Champion, of Armstrong's
brigade who slew the Federal officer in an engagement though ignorant at the
time of the preferred reward offered by the young lady.
On the eve of leaving Courtland, however, he was sent for by her, and
informed of the pledge she had made. The
inexorable call of duty cut short the brief interview, and the captain left with
the promise of a future meeting.
But
alas, man proposes, but it is God that disposes of all earthly transactions.
The sad news is now brought to us that Champion himself has been taken
hence. He fell in the gallant
charge made by Gen. Armstrong a few days since at Middleburg, near Bolivar, an
account of which we have already published.
He was a fine gentleman and a gallant soldier.
Peace to his ashes.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 13, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
The Embalming Business in the Army.
The correspondent of the London Times, writing from the
Pamunkey river, June 15th, says:
On my
way to this plantation from the camp I saw before me some tents surrounded with
curious things, a signboard, on which was written with large letters, "Drs.
Brown and Alexander, government embalmers."
They are not to embalm the government, however, but only those who
require it by the care of the government. My
Irish gentleman friend was acquainted with the doctor; I do not know Brown or
Alexander, but we found him sitting on a mat in his drawers and shirt, with a
large diamond pin in the latter rather muddy colored garment.
"Take a drink?" Of
course. Old Bourbon whisky and
large tumblers. That once over, I
began asking questions. The doctors
were doing a large business there, behind were four corpses.
"See them." Of
course, poor fellows! none of them
shot, all died by fever.
The
doctor told me their principal ingredient for embalming was a kind of liquid
glass and gypsum, which hardened to a substance like stone.
In this state the body would keep for many years, perhaps forever.
The bodies looked well preserved, although not very agreeable.
The doctor took for embalming a private twenty-two dollars, and for an
officer fifty dollars. I was told that since the commencement of the war above two
thousand bodies of soldiers had been embalmed and sent home.
This was done by Adams express, in lead boxes, lined with sheet zinc.
The poor fellow I saw nailed up wore his uniform, and his writing case
and portfolio were laid beside him. With
this and a bundle of hay under his head, and the address on the cover of the
box, he was sent home to his mourning parents.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
A Regiment at a Little Girl's Grave.
At London, Tennessee, a few days since, a little girl of
fourteen, who had been very kind in waiting on the sick Confederate soldiers in
the neighborhood, died of fever contracted in the camps.
A letter says:
A
letter was addressed to her mother, expressing the deep regret of the whole
command at the death of her daughter, tendering our warmest sympathies in her
sad bereavement, and asking permission for the infantry battalion to attend her
funeral services and burial in a body, as a mark of our respect for her
character. Her mother kindly
consented, and at three o'clock this evening the funeral services were
performed. The different companies
were drawn up in a grove in front of the house, and, after a few touching words
from the minister, the corpse was placed in the hearse and was moved off in the
direction of the grave, the whole command following with reversed arms and
solemn step. A more touching sight
I have seldom witnessed. Tears were
seen stealing down the manly cheeks of many a sunbrowned soldier, unaccustomed
to weep. Her body having been
deposited in its last resting place, they returned slowly and sadly to camp,
having witnessed another illustration of the truth that
"All that's bright must fade.
The brightest--still the fleetest."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
Spirit of Georgia Women.
From
the Milledgeville Southern Recorder.]
Mrs.
Laura Jeans, wife of Vincent Jeans, of Wilkinson county, lives a few miles from
Milledgeville. She is a delicate,
weakly young wife, nursing her first child.
Her husband is a soldier, *a volunteer*, at Cumberland Gap.
They refuse to accept of public bounty, and support themselves.
Besides many other labors, this noble woman has, *with her own hands*,
made about 150 bushels of corn, and now, in these burning dog-days, may be seen,
wet to the waist with honest sweat *pulling fodder!*
Her market basket is sometimes in our streets with peaches, or other
small articles of food for sale, at moderate prices.
And thus she turns her hand from one thing to another, to earn an honest
support during the long absence of her really fond and ardent soldier-husband in
the war.
Such an
example is an honor to Wilkinson county--an honor to Georgia!--and is equal to
the brightest instances of patriotism to be found in any circle of society.
LIBERTY.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 17, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Substitute for Soda--A lady of Fluvanna county sends us the following, which we
publish for the information of housekeepers.--
To the
ashes of corn cobs add a little boiling water.
After allowing it to stand for a few minutes, pour off the lye, which can
be used at once with an acid (sour milk or vinegar.)
It makes the bread as light as soda.
Our
lady friends in the country should cut this out and remember it.
They can avail themselves of corn cobs, it will be perceived any moment,
and with scarcely any trouble at all.--Savannah Republican.
[phrasing?--as written]
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 19, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Song.
Respectfully Dedicated to the Officers and Men of the 1st Kentucky Regiment, Colonel Tom Taylor, commanding, and to Kentucky Exiles generally.
Air: Bonny Blue Flag.
We
were driven forth in exile
From our native happy land,
For we would not bend our spirits
To a tyrant's stern command
We came to old Virginia
From the Ohio's sunny shore,
To shed our blood for freedom,
As our fathers did before.
CHORUS:
For we march, we march,
To the music of the drum,
We were driven forth in exile
From our old Kentucky home.
They
have branded us as felons
By their stern despotic laws,
And they doom us to the prison
When we fight for freedom's cause.
But our hearts will never fail us,
We'll proudly meet our doom,
And suffer deep and sorely
For our old Kentucky home.
CHORUS:
For we march, etc.
When
first the Southern flag unfurled
Its folds upon the air,
Its stars had hardly glittered
When Kentucky's sons were there.
And they swore a solemn oath,
As they sternly gathered round,
They could only live as freemen
On the dark and bloody ground.
CHORUS:
Then cheer boys, cheer,
We'll fight the Northern scum
Who drove us forth in exile
From our old Kentucky home.
And
now we are preparing
Our native soil to tread.
And we will be victorious,
Or slumber with the dead.
So mothers, sisters, sweethearts,
We bid you all adieu,
And hope that in Kentucky
We'll soon be joined by you.
CHORUS:
For we'll march straight ahead
Against the Yankee scum
And soon we'll free our native State,
And welcome you at home.
EXILE.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 22, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
Southern Match Works.
We
are prepared to fill orders for a superior article of Friction Matches, Equal to
any of Eastern make. They will be
sold very low to the trade. Send
cash orders immediately, before it is too late to A. Eyrich, & Co.
Columbus, Miss.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 22, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
M'Allister's Advertisements.
Wool!
Wool--Wanted! I will give two yds. Osnaburgs for 1 pound good washed Wool,
or $1 cash. J. C. McAllister,
Jackson, Miss.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 23, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Another Enterprise.--Mr. Wm. Magoffin, of Carrolton, Miss., has forwarded us a
specimen of matches of home manufacture, which will answer the purpose as well
as the best Yankee productions. We
need be no longer dependent upon our enemies for lucifers.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 24, 1862, p. 2, c.8
Wanted, 1000 lbs. beeswax for which a liberal price will be paid.
Richard Potts. Surgeon and Medical Purveyor, C.S.A., Western Department,
Jackson, Miss.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], September 30, 1862, p.2, c. 8
Salt for the Juice of Elderberries--or $1.00 per gallon. I will give $1 per gallon for the Juice of Elderberries sent
by Express to Mr. Gunthorp, Railroad Agent at Coffeeville and will pay for the
vessels containing it. I will send
the money by Express and pay all charges.
P. Harris.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], October 1, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
To the Ladies of Mississippi and Alabama.
Two months ago, a call was made upon the ladies of
Mississippi to furnish socks for General Price's army.
The gentleman who made the call, is informed that the ladies of
Mississippi are doing all they can to answer it.
Finding it impossible in many sections of the State to get wool, they are
doing the next best thing--knitting cotton socks, which will be highly
acceptable to our brave men. Each soldier ought to have at least two pairs of socks.
As the manufacture of so many pairs (which ought to be done in a short
time) may entail a heavy burden upon one State, it has been determined to appeal
to the ladies of Alabama to aid in the work, more especially since Alabamians
now compose a part of the army of the Tennessee.
If each lady of these two States will furnish one pair of socks, it will
give the army more than an abundant supply.
These articles are for the use of the whole command, without distinction,
and no lady knows but what the very pair she knits may be distributed to some
noble fellow who is near and dear to her by the ties of blood or affection.
The socks, whether of yarn or cotton, should be thick and of good length
in the leg and foot. Hundreds of
ladies will donate these articles, but there are many who cannot and ought not
to give them. To such seventy-five
cents will be paid for yarn, and fifty cents for cotton socks, by Major Brinker,
at Tupelo.
Many
packages can be sent up by private hands, but to facilitate matters, the
Southern Express and the Pioneer Express companies have generously offered to
transport to Tupelo free of charge all packages of socks intended for the army,
if deposited at any of the stations on the several railroads of these two
States; and in cases where any of the socks are charged for, they will collect
the bills and hand the money to the agent at the station where they were
received. It is recommended that
parties getting up a package should appoint a suitable person to see that it
gets into the hands of the Express company.
All packages should be directed to Major Isaac Brinker, Post
Quartermaster, Tupelo, and superscribed "Socks for the Army."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], October 15, 1862, p. 2, c. 8
M'Allister's Advertisements.
J. C. McAllister,
Jackson, Missippi, [sic]
Has
just received
5000 yds. English Ginghams,
4500 yds. "
Poplins,
1500 yds. "
Plaids,
1900 yds. Georgia Stripes,
50 gross Pearl Buttons.
Also--A large lot Cotton yarns all Nos., and fifty Slaes.
Come soon as they will go off like hot Buckwheat Cakes.
Osnaburgs, Sheetings, Shirtings and Drillings!
75 bales just received and for sale by J. C. McAllister, Jackson Miss.
J. C. McAllister,
Jackson, Miss.,
Has
just received a good supply Grey cloths for Uniforms.
Crenshaw's best Grey,
English Tweeds Grey,
Cowpen Factory Grey,
Salem, N. C. Factory Grey.
J. C. McAllister.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], October 18, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
The Ladies at the Hospitals.
The military hospital at Montgomery comprises four
commodious brick tenements. It can
accommodate 1000 patients.
A
correspondent of the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer thus notices one feature of it:
A
feature--a noble one too--is apparent at this hospital.
Six angelic Sisters of Mercy attended solely at this hospital, and you
can perceive a spirit of devotion and kindness in their mild, complacent
countenances. They are from Mobile, and their names are Sister Mary
Adelaide, senior, Sister Johanna, Sister Prudenta, Sister Mary Elizabeth, Sister
Agnes and Sister Anastasia.
These
good women have devoted their lives to doing good, and may heaven reward them
for the sacrifices they have made for the benefit of suffering humanity.
During
the passage of Bragg's army through this city, about seven hundred sick were
left here, and out of that number only twenty-two died, and it may be justly
claimed a small per centage when most of the deceased were so far gone on their
reception for treatment.
Recently a report was made to Congress of the condition of the hospitals in
Richmond. It was shown that the
mortality was astonishingly less in those establishments managed by women than
in those where the other sex had sway. In one managed by the former it was only about three per
cent. The lowest of those managed
by the latter was about six per cent.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], October 20, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Sock
Manufactory--An enterprising firm in Wilmington, North Carolina, has a factory
in operation in that city that turns out daily one thousand pairs of thick,
strong and soft socks, suitable for soldiers' wear, which are supplied to the
North Carolina troops. The same
firm it is said, are endeavoring to establish a branch of their business at
Montgomery, Alabama, for furnishing the troops of that State in like manner.
It would be a great blessing to the army were a similar factory located
on a large scale in every Confederate State.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], October 21, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Blackberry Tea.--A friend from Russell county, Alabama, presented to us, a few
days since, a handful of blackberry leaves dried in the shade for the purpose of
making tea. He represented its
resemblance in taste to the tea of China to be so close as to make it difficult
to distinguish one from the other. We have tried these leaves, and find the similarity in taste,
smell and color to be as he represented. We
do not, honestly, believe that we could have told the difference between it and
China green tea, had we not known it to be an extract of blackberry leaves.
Now is
a very good time to gather and dry these leaves and we recommend a trial to our
readers. Possibly this tea may be
too stringent for persons of costive habits, though we could not perceive any
effect of that sort, and it would be prudent for them to observe its
effect.--Columbus Enquirer.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], October 23, 1862, p. 2, c. 6
A
Substitute for Hyson Tea.--We find the following communication in the Atlanta
Confederacy:
Delicious Tea.--Ladies, gather your raspberry leaves, and you will have the
finest substitute for hyson tea in the world--and when you can't get
raspberries--take the blackberry--it will do.
I have tried it. You have yet several days before frost to gather them--see to
it! Tea is $12 a pound--save your
money.
R.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], October 25, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Thanks to the Ladies of Panola County.
Quartermaster's Dep't 3d Res. Missouri Inf'y,
October 20, 1862.
We have this day witnessed, in front of our quarters, the distribution among our
fellow soldiers of some articles of clothing, by Rev. Dr. Ford, in behalf of the
Dixie Daughters' Society. Many thanks to those Christian ladies for their kindness in
remembering the poor warworn soldiers; and to Rev. Dr. Ford for his energies and
labors in behalf of our cause and army. May
God in his infinite mercy bless and reward those who labor.
[list of officers]
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], October 27 1862, p. 2--[Summary:
long description of New Iberia Salt Mines]
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], October 29 1862, p. 2, c. 2
The Soldier's Necessities.
. .
. The same journal [Richmond Whig] understands that the government has already
forwarded to General Lee's army over thirty thousand garments and a large
shipment of shoes. This number of
garments, allowing a coat, pair of pants, and shirt, to a man, will furnish
suits, say, for ten thousand needy men. This
will go far toward relieving the more destitute.
The government has in its employ, in Richmond, fifty-eight tailors who
cut out the cloth, and twenty seven hundred women who make it up into
garments--the whole turning out, on an average, nine thousand garments per week,
or coats, pants and shirts for three thousand men.
There are other establishments, in other parts of the Confederacy, where
clothing is being manufactured for the army, and the force engaged is
sufficient, perhaps, to turn out twenty thousand garments a week.
At this rate, estimating our army in the field at four hundred thousand
men, it would require more than a year to furnish each man with a single suit of
clothes. If we suppose the various
government establishments will be able to supply two hundred thousand men by
Christmas, there will still be two hundred thousand left, who will have to look
to the people at home for their outfits, or go without clothing.
If the government should provide for three hundred thousand, the number
left for the country to clothe would still be frightfully large--one hundred
thousand men!
These
figures are merely rough estimates, and are only intended to serve the purpose
of directing the attention of the people to the magnitude of the labor before
them. After government shall have
done all it can, there will still be much left for the warm hearts and willing
hands of the people to perform. And,
if they should accomplish this labor in time to benefit those for whom it is
undertaken, they cannot set about it too soon.
The weather among the mountains in Virginia is already cold to the men
who do duty for us with only tattered, dirty and threadbare garments upon their
manly limbs. Let the people, then, everywhere, and in whatever
circumstances, commence the good work as soon as possible, and never leave off
until one of the best and bravest armies in the world shall have been furnished
with all the comforts it may be in our power to bestow.
There are none so indigent that they cannot contribute something to the
relief of such troops as ours. Let
it be remembered that though destitute as they are represented to be, and though
many of them have gone without food for days together, and that at a time when
they were making long marches and fighting bloody battles with the enemies of
our country, still they are cheerful, patient and resolute as ever, and are
ready now, as they have been at all times, to assert their birthright to be
free. If the invader thinks
differently, he has only to seek them where they are, and he will soon be cured
of his folly.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 1, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
From the
Richmond Enquirer.
The Comfort Cloak--A Substitute for Overcoats and Blankets for Our Army.
I see that great complaint is made for the want of clothing for our
army.--Allow me to suggest a cheap and warm substitute for a blanket and
overcoat, and which can be made by any country matron.
Take sufficient quantity of common cotton shirting, dye it brown with
black walnut, cut it and make it in the form of a large loose cloak without
sleeves, leaving slits for the arms; wad it with cotton batting, in thin layers
like a quilt, fix an oil cloth cape to it, reaching down to the waist, fasten it
with a belt around the waist, the throat and breast part to be fastened with
string--and you have the most complete cloak and blanket a soldier ever slept
in, and much lighter than the woolen coat.
The writer of this used one an entire winter in the northern part of
Iowa, where the cold is intense, and he can assure you he never was more
comfortably clad.
The object of the oil cloth cape is to protect the garment as well as the
arms from the rain. The collar
should be made wide so as to cover the ears and neck when raised.
All the old woolen stockings, carpets, blankets, &c. should be
gathered up, well washed and pulled to pieces, spun into cloth, and made up into
pantaloons and jackets.
All the old shoes and boots should be repaired and sent to the companies
in the field.
Let the ladies in each city, county, town or neighborhood, make up
garments for their companies and send them forward by a trusty agent.
We have no time to lose--winter is upon us and our boys are shivering.
HOWARD.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 5, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
The
Chattanooga Rebel is authorized to state that the ladies of Chattanooga will use
their surplus dresses in making comforts for the soldiers if they can get
cotton. They are willing to pay for
it if any person will furnish them what they want for this purpose.
Will not the men furnish the cotton without requiring the ladies to pay
for it?
If such
a spirit prevailed throughout the South, our soldiers would not long go
unprovided for.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 6, 1862, p. 1, c. 5
Later from Bolivar, Tenn.
Correspondence
Cincinnati Commercial.]
Bolivar, Tenn., October 25.-- . . . There are no meadows in this part of
Tennessee. As a substitute for
their "rough feed" they use the stripped corn blades and stalk fields.
They keep but little stock to feed, excepting their work mules and milch
cows. About the time the blades
begin to turn they are stripped off, bundled and stacked.
No one has a barn to put them into.
Outside of the town, I don't think there's a decent barn within twenty
miles of here. I have never seen
one in the State. A pole pen,
covered with cane, brush, weeds and cotton stalks is a positive *mule palace!*
. . .
The country, for miles around Bolivar, speaks the language of a progressing
revolution. Fields are laid bare;
fences used up for fuel; corn corps long since appropriated; cotton fields half
picked; and hundreds of acres of plain-land, upland, hill-side, and hollow still
white with myriads of untouched and open bolls; houses standing here and there,
surrounded by--desolation, with not a board, a picket, or scarcely a post left
standing to "Mark where a garden had been."
No horses, no mules, no cows, no calves, few hogs, no cabbage, no
potatoes, apples, chickens--no nothing that is edible, or that can be useful or
ornamental for army purposes. The
secesh stole the cream, we drank the milk.
They took first choice, and we appropriated the remainder.
Our teams to day went thirteen miles for forage. . . . W. M. B., 78th
Ohio.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 11, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
Soldiers' Aid Society.
The society met on Saturday, the 8th, A. P. Dunaway in the chair.
The former chairman reported the following committees for the remaining
police districts, viz: [list]
The
following subscriptions have been made during the week:
[list]
The
committee for buying materials have purchased the following articles, viz:
[list]
Now,
Messrs. Editors, we wish to make an appeal to every man in the county to do
something for the poor soldiers who are risking their lives for the defense of
our homes, our families, and our property.
The man that will not give to this cause ought not to be recognized as a
patriot, or to be received into decent society after the war is over.
Let him be shunned as if his contact were pollution.
Let no violence be done him, but let the moral sentiment of the community
be down upon him.
To the
ladies of the county let us say, be up and doing.
Let every one in the county do something.
Sew, knit, spin, card, and gather up all blankets, carpets, old clothes,
shoes or comforts, anything and everything that will save a soldier's life and
make him comfortable. . . .
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 12, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Practical
Hints for Hard Times.
"What man has done, man may do."
ADDENDA TO NO. 1,
ON THE SUBJECT OF SHOES.
Since the publication of No. 1, two suggestions, promising usefulness,
have been made to the writer, both on the subject of soles.
Addendum 1st: A
shoe in actual service and very convenient for chamber use, is reported to be
made with a sole of quilted cloth.
Addendum 2d: A gentleman
noted among his intimate friends for his ingenuity proposed an improvement upon
article 5th of No. 1. The
upper of the shoe is made of enamelled cloth tacked firmly to a thick wooden
sole; but the sole itself has a joint about half way between toe and heel
so as to give flexibility in walking. The
hinge, made either of leather or metal, is inserted in the body of the sole, so
as to be entirely invisible. So far
as tried it promises to work well.
No.II—LIGHTS.
Our fathers used little artificial light.
They preferred the cheap light of day.
For this reason they went early to bed and were all the more healthy and
wealthy for their practice. The
chief light of their houses, like that of the nobility of
England a few centuries back, was a ruddy glare from the hearthstone.
1. PRIMITIVE LIGHTS.—The earliest artificial illuminators of
which we have any record, were lamps. These
at first, consisted of nothing more than a cup of oil or grease, with a wick
lying against its side. Its shape
was soon improved in convenience and elegance.
2. A HASTILY EXTEMPORIZED LIGHT.—The writer was one of a family
party who were belated in the mountains of Georgia and compelled to seek shelter
with a family who owned neither lamp or candle.
Our ingenious hostess, however devised a light for the table.
It was made by means of a slice of fat bacon, (do not laugh, reader, I
tell the simple truth.) This slice
was spread in the bottom of a saucer, and on this was laid some candle wick, the
burning end of which was kept elevated by being passed through a tailor's
thimble.
3. RUSH LIGHTS.—Among the poor of Europe, a very cheap and
easily made light is constructed of the ordinary bulrush stripped of its skin,
except enough to hold the internal pitch together, and saturated with suit [sic]
or wax.
4. CONFEDERATE CANDLE.—This rivals the rush light in
simplicity, and far exceeds it in serviceableness.
To make it, melt together a pound of beeswax and a quarter of a pound of
rosin, or of rosin fresh from the tree. Prepare
a wick 30 or 40 yards long, made up of three threads of loosely spun cotton.
Saturate this well with the mixture, and draw it through your fingers to
press all closely together, and to keep the size even.
Repeat the process until the candle attains the size of a straw or quill;
then wrap around a bottle, or into a ball with a flat bottom.
Six inches of this candle elevated above the rest will burn for fifteen
or twenty minutes, and give a very pretty light, and forty yards have sufficed a
small family a summer for all the usual purposes of the bed-chamber.
5. LARD TAPER.—Equal to our mountain friends bacon light in
cheapness, and yet more pleasantly available for the necessities of the sick
room, is a light made up of a saucer half full of lard and a little wisp of
spongy paper. The paper twisted so
as to form a short pointed wick with a broad base—say two thirds of an inch
high and an inch broad—is set in the midst of the lard, and by the heat it
generates, aided by the shelving sides of the saucer keeps itself supplied with
fuel until the lard is all consumed. The
papers can be shaped on the point of one's finger, and the burning and twisted
quite small. It should rest on the
bottom, and the vessel should be shallow—a saucer, not a cup.
6. LARD LAMPS.—At the present prices of illuminating material,
the most economical by far for those who live in the interior and afar is lard.
This requires a lamp whose wick tubes are of thick metal for the purposes
of conveying the heat of the flame into the midst of the lard, and keeping it
melted around the wick. The lard
must be melted when the lamp is lighted or it will not burn well.
The wick should be several thicknesses of spongy cloth.
7. LARD OIL.—When combined with one fifth spirits of
turpentine, will burn in an ordinary lamp and afford a beautiful light.
To obtain the oil, enclose lard in a strong, close canvas bag, and
subject to gradually increased pressure. The
indurated mass left in the bag is not required for culinary purposes.
8. CANDLES OF TALLOW AND PRICKLY PEAR.—Whoever can command
tallow for candles, will greatly improve them in firmness and in illuminating
power, combining with a few leaves of the prickly pear, in the proportion of
about one part by weight of the last, to four or five of the first.
The leaves should be kept in the heated tallow until all commotion
ceases, and until the tallow itself reaches the boiling point.
Of course, the heated mixture will need straining.
It is said by those who profess to know, that the longer tallow is
boiled, the whiter it becomes in case it is not burned.
The vessel containing the tallow should be heated in a sand bath (another
vessel partly filled with sand) and not set immediately on the fire.
9. WAX CANDLES.—Beeswax gives a light almost equal to sperm.
It may be moulded like the tallow candles; or it may be rolled by
enveloping the wick in a thin stratum of wax spread on a board, and afterwards
smoothed evenly by rolling between two boards.
The combination of wax and tallow need not be suggested.
10. Wax and rosin, mixed in equal proportions, afford an
excellent light though liable to smoke unless supplied with a suitable sized
wick.
11. Myrtle Wax is obtained by boiling the berries of the swamp
myrtle, on which it is to be seen as a greenish white cover.
The myrtle is found abundantly in all our seaboard counties, and has been
seen by the writer as far inland as Macon and Forsyth.
Its favorite locality is a swampy though not wet ground.
The berries should be boiled in a bag, and the clarified wax, which is of
a pretty green color, mixed more or less largely with tallow.
12. The value of our ordinary pine tree as an illuminator remains
yet to be developed. Camphene
is nothing more than the highly volatile spirits of turpentine—it is that part
of the spirit which first rises from the still after heating the virgin gum.
That which comes after is more or less mixed with the heavier rosin.
Burning Fluid is made by mixing camphine [sic] (or even the purer
varieties of spirits of turpentine) with four or more times its bulk of alcohol.
The high price of alcohol has arrested the manufacture of burning fluid;
but the camphene remains as abundant as ever in the pine forests of the whole
South, and awaits only the magic touch of some who will devise a plan for
rendering it inexplosive, to furnish the country with one of the best and
cheapest lights. WILL NOT SOMEBODY TRY? Rosin
is the inspissated juice of the gum remaining in the still after the volatile
part, or spirit, has been separated by heat.
It has resisted all efforts hitherto made to mould it into candles or to
use it in lamps, being too hard for the one and too soft for the other; and,
moreover, it burns with a dense and unpleasant smoke. But the smoke may be consumed by attaching a glass chimney
with a strong draught, when a flame is produced almost as brilliant as that
of Kerosene, and, no doubt, a suitable lamp for it can be constructed.
I venture the prediction that it is yet to be used as an illuminator in
other ways than at the gas works.
Marooners, Sr.
Any person having valuable hints, of a practical character, on the
subjects already discussed, or on those of clothing, food, &c., to
communicate, are invited to publish them, or to address "Box 154, Macon,
Georgia," not 54," as published in No. 1.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Call at Geo. Lake's store and secure a chance for the magnificent silk quilt to
be disposed of for the benefit of the soldiery.
It is donated by a lady, and is her own handiwork.
The fortunate one will find himself the possessor of a valuable and
beautiful article. Only a few
chances remain to be disposed of.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
The cotton factory at Van Buren, Arkansas, was accidentally destroyed by fire a
short time ago.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 12, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
The Montgomery Mail states, as an instance of female patriotism, in Butler,
Alabama, that Miss A. Dunham, finding that she could not buy shoes, with her own
hands tanned skins, and made shoes for her mother, three brothers, a decrepit
father and herself; and Miss E. Ficklin,
a girl of nine years of age, spun a most beautiful article of fine cotton sewing
thread upon a common spinning wheel. Hurrah
for the Alabama ladies.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 13, 1862, p. 1, c. 6
A lady living five miles north of Ozark, Arkansas, with an axe, a saw, a chisel
and an auger, made herself a loom out of oak rails, upon which she now weaves
eight yards of coarse cotton cloth a day. The
thread is furnished by Major N. B. Pearce, and woven into cloth for army
purposes. Think of that, ye
effeminates who loll on a sofa or carriage cushions and complain.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Factory Burned.--We learn from the Macon Telegraph that the Houston Factory,
owned by Messrs. Tooke & Cooper, was burned on the 6th. The wool, cotton, and what little they had manufactured, was
saved.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 14, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
The Milton (N.C.) Chronicle says: "A
very estimable lady--one of the smartest and prettiest in the country--wishes to
know of us what she ought to charge per yard for a piece of cloth now in the
loom, the cotton in which cost $ 4 50 per bunch, and the wool rolls $2 per
pound. To this must be added the
cost of weaving, etc. We are rather
puzzled for a reply, but she ought to exact of shoemakers, tanners, flour and
corn speculators, about $15 per yard; and if she can possibly find a cotton
factory 'lord' obliged to buy it, charge the rascal $25 a yard--and then she
can't 'get even' with him. To
people of conscience, we do not think she could sell her cloth for less than $4
a yard and make anything."
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 17, 1862, p. 2, c. 7
M'Allister's Advertisements.
Overcoats.
2000 Gray Army Overcoats for sale, lined with Plaid Linsey, at
McAllister's, Jackson, Miss.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 19, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
The
same journal [Pine Bluff Southron] had seen a letter from the clerk of the
cotton mill at Van Buren, recently burned, which stated that their proprietors
intended rebuilding it as soon as possible.
The loss by the fire was about $40,000.
He states that nearly all the wool was saved, and will be delivered to
owners upon call. The factory had just got fairly into operation, having put a
double set of hands to work, which enabled them to turn out fifty pounds spun
yarn per hour.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 20, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
The Camden (Ark.) Herald, says it has credible information that seventy tons of
English goods for soldiers' clothing, have arrived at a landing on Red river
through Mexico, for the Confederate States.
This amount of goods will go far toward rendering our brave soldiers
comfortable through the river.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 22, 1862, p. 1, c. 7
Vicksburg.
From
the Southern Illustrated News.]
The
city of the "Walnut Hills" is, at the present moment, one of the most
renowned cities on the face of the earth. It
is not very large, but it is, as it always has been, full of life and energy.
It is like a game chicken--small, trim, elastic, game all over, and ready
for a brush with any enemy, regardless of size or weapons.
It is little more than forty years old; yet it has lived a couple of
centuries in that forty years. . . .
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 25, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Richmond, November 15, 1862.
. . . Folly and extravagance have not ceased with the war. I heard of a young Richmond belle, yesterday, just about to
be married, who paid $85 for one bonnet, $50 for a second, and $45 for a third,
for her nuptials. This is none of
Dixie's business, but the young bride had far better have given two-thirds of
the money to cover the feet of the soldiers than her own pretty head.
DIXIE
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 26, 1862, p. 2, c. 3 [Summary:
meeting at Senatobia and vicinity to raise money and materials for
soldiers' relief]
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 27, 1862, p. 2, c. 5
The Federals in North Mississippi.
Special
Correspondence of the Chicago Times]
LaGrange, Tenn., November 17.--[report on Holly Springs, MS area]
. . .
.The country lying between LaGrange and Holly Springs is a magnificent
agricultural district, and every mil of the road runs through plantations fit
for princes. The traveler never
loses sight of cotton fields white with the argosies of untold thousands of
dollars' worth of the staple; but, alas! standing
unpicked in the field. . . . Nine-tenths of the white population have left their
homes, driving away nearly all the live stock, and taking all the youngest and
best servants who didn't escape in the melee of removal.
After leaving our pickets, we saw but two white persons before arriving
at Holly Springs. These were rebel
cavalry men, who professed to have furloughs, but were probably deserters. Being on a peaceful mission, we had no right to detain them.
The negroes left in possession by the exodus of their masters are
generally found basking in the sun, or cracking hickory nuts.
To the question of why they are not picking cotton, you are answered with
a grin. They have enough to eat, no
work to do, and are supremely happy. Their
only want is salt. The more
provident among them are saving a little cotton, hoping to exchange it for salt.
In one or two places we found something like a united effort to save the
crop by the blacks, and one "contraband" assured me he would have
twenty-five bales ready for market within two weeks. The growth of corn has been pretty evenly divided with that
of cotton. Large fields of it meet
the eye on every side, and, while not standing so heavy on the ground as in
Illinois, is fully as well cared. Thousands
of acres stand untouched.
Our Reception.
We expected to meet the rebel pickets a few miles this side of Holly Springs, and were not authorized to proceed farther than the latter place. No enemy appearing, we rode into the village about dusk. All stores, shops, and places of business were closed. Not a hotel or livery stable was open, and a dozen inquiries failed to obtain an ear of corn for our horses, or even a stable to put them in. Our prisoners then stated who we were, and the object of our visit, when a dozen men stepped forward with offers of all we needed. (It *does* make a difference whose ox is gored.) After seeing our beasts properly cared for, we were taken in charge by Capt. Clark, introduced to his family and a large number of friends, were entertained in the most kindly and generous manner possible, and our horses returned to us in fine condition in the morning.
A Ride Around the Place.
Camp life having induced the habit of early rising, we were
out early in the morning, and, in company of the captain, rode through most of
the principal streets, and had a good view of this, the handsomest of all the
southern towns I have yet seen. Your
readers will remember it lies on the Mississippi Central railroad, twenty-two
miles south of Grand Junction, is the capital of Marshall county, Miss., has a
population of about 3500, contains many excellent churches and public buildings,
a female seminary, and is on the highest site in the State.
A hill to the westward of the town limits is 710 feet above the level of
the sea. Before the commencement of
the war it must have been one of the most charming places in the Union.
It lays sufficiently undulating to please the eye, and contains many
elegant private residences. Even at
the present, after its occupation by a portion of the Confederate army for
months, and being preyed upon and harassed by the advance guards of both armies,
it retains enough native and artificial beauty to elicit the admiration of any
one. Several Southern notabilities
formerly resided here. Perhaps the
most elegant mansion in the place belongs to Colonel Waters, a member of Gen.
Bragg's staff. Gen. Polk, (a
brother of the Rev. Leonidas), owns a property here also, of humble
pretensions--the last house in the town that would be suspected of belonging to
the brother of a President. The
depot grounds and buildings are superior to most I have seen.
The latter are substantially built of brick, and embrace commodious
engine houses, machine-shops and out-buildings, in addition to the passenger and
freight depots. Within two weeks
all the moveable machinery has been taken out and removed to some point farther
south, where, like that taken from Jackson, Tenn., it probably stands on open
platform cars on some side track of the road, exposed to the weather, and
becoming worthless for every purpose save that of old iron.
All that could not be removed was destroyed, but the tracks and buildings
remain in good condition. Near the
depot, three hospital buildings were erected by the Confederates, of a character
vastly above those usually put u p for such purposes, and which Col. Lee found
to contain about fifty convalescents, on his sudden entrance into the place.
As a handsome, pretty town, too much cannot be said of Holly Springs; nor
as a military position, too little. It
is wholly untenable by any army, on account of scarcity of water; possesses but
few points of defense, and offers many of attack. . . .
The
trip afforded many opportunities of conversing with Southern men and women, and
very naturally the engrossing subject was the war, its purposes and probable
results. All deplore it.
All desire peace. All say
the war can only end in separation. These
seem to be foregone conclusions to every one we met.
They admit our superiority in numbers and resources, but depend on what
they term "the righteousness of their cause," the unity and
determination of Southern people, and the immense advantage they possess in
acting on the defensive, selecting their own battlegrounds, and compelling us to
fight them when and where they please. The
women are, if possible, a thousand fold more violent and intense in their
prejudices, than the men, and are driving every able bodied man into the rebel
army. Scarcely one remains in whole
sections, and these are contemptuously treated by almost all. As new converts are most zealous, so Northern men, who have
settled in the South and own slaves, are the most headlong supporters of the
war. . . . In conversing with a lady, I expressed my surprise that "a
Northern woman" would advocate such principles. She indignantly denied being a Northern woman, but her
laughing companions admitted she was born and educated there. Her language and address betrayed it.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 28, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
The Ladies of Sardis and Vicinity.
Editor
Appeal: Well hath it been said that
when the history of the present revolution is written, one of its brightest
pages will tell of the noble deeds of the fair women of our sunny South.
The pen of the future historian will be busy in transmitting to future
generations the chivalric deeds of our brave and gallant armies, but not so busy
that it will fail to tell of the part borne in our great struggle for
independence by our self-sacrificing women.
Page after page will tell of battles fought and victories won against
overwhelming numbers; chapter after chapter will be devoted to brilliant
campaigns, and tell how States were lost and won, but chapter and page will not
be wanting to tell how the fair ones at home cheered us on when we were well
nigh desponding--how they worked and toiled and denied themselves, that we might
be warmly clad and protected from the chilly blasts while keeping back the
hireling hosts who threatened our borders.
Prominent among the many societies organized for the laudable purpose of
clothing our brave boys in the army, stands the Sardis soldiers' aid society and
its auxiliary, the Sardis spinning and weaving society.
Of the former Mrs. McCracken is president, and Miss Callie Morriss
secretary; of the latter Mrs. A. W. Lowe, president, and Mrs. Pullen and Miss
Sue Simmons secretaries. The Sardis
aid society was organized more than fifteen months since, and from the day of
its organization to the present date, it has been steadily engaged in its
praiseworthy mission. Much that it
has done has never been and, perhaps, never will be known to the public, but the
recipients of its kindness will ever remember it with gratitude.
Many hospitals have been supplied with delicacies for the sick, and many
a poor soldier, far away from home and kindred, has ejaculated a silent prayer
for the happiness of the good ladies of Sardis and vicinity as he eagerly
partook of the good things sent.
Last
winter one entire company was furnished with blankets, underclothing and socks,
and several others supplied in part; beside a great many garments given to
individuals wherever found needy. More
than one hundred and twenty-five uniforms were made, and many other things of
which the writer is not posted. The
ladies were materially aided in their efforts by many patriotic gentlemen
hereabouts who subscribed liberally in money and cotton.
But
last spring it was ascertained that the stock of fabrics of which garments had
heretofore been made, was exhausted. Flannels,
shirtings and goods suitable for coats and pants could no longer be obtained.
This was a serious dilemma, and men perhaps under similar circumstances
would have given up in despair; but not so our fair friends.
They met the emergency boldly; such fabrics as they needed could not be
bought, but *they could be made.* A
spinning and weaving society was immediately organized.
Hands little used to such things were soon busy with the distaff and
shuttle; and the merry hum of the wheel and the clatter of the loom soon became
familiar sounds throughout our neighborhood.
Osnaburgs and jeans was [sic] soon manufactured and made up, and many of
our thinly clad soldiers will soon be made to rejoice on account of the
handiwork of these fair ones.
I would
that I could give you a full history of all that these two benevolent societies
have done and are now doing for our cause, but my space will not allow it.
They are engaged in a holy work, and well are the fulfilling their
missions.
From
many a camp in Virginia, Tennessee and Mississippi will a silent "God bless
them" ascend to heaven; from many a home in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas,
will the tear of gratitude trickle down the fair cheek of mother, wife and
sister, as she learns that her loved one far away has found a mother--a
sister--to minister to his wants. God bless the ladies of Sardis and vicinity.
Visitor.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 28, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
. . . Why have not our capitalists been able to see that it is equally wise and
much more patriotic to use their surplus funds in producing such articles as
lime, sulfuric acid, bleaching powders, copperas, alum, etc., than to invest
their money in cotton, tobacco, wheat, flour and every other necessary of life,
and hold them up for more exorbitant prices.
We have in abundance the crude materials necessary to make all the above
enumerated articles so much needed. The
price for lime before the war was eighty cents to one dollar per barrel.
It has since been sold for seven dollars.
Sulfuric acid then cost from three to four cents per pound, and has been
sold since the war for one dollar. Bleaching
powders once cost, by the cask, three and a half cents per pound, and now sells
for seventy-five cents to one dollar. The
same of copperas and alum. And
strange to say, we have ample material for the manufacture of all these
articles, and only the labor of men is wanting to make it available.
MEMPHIS DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 29, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
The Federals in Nashville.
Correspondence
of the Louisville Journal.]
Nashville, November 18, 1862.
. . . The abuse of the pass system was suddenly checked, I was told, by an
imperative order from the commander-in-chief to grant no passes to civilians,
whatever, for ordinary business purposes. Farewell
to the wholesale smuggling out of flannels, India rubber goods, and coats, even
under the well spread hoops of these delicate rebels.
No more quinine to go out in false bottomed trunks and valises, nor
packages of liquor, etc., to travel in old corn sacks, and in chicken-coop
crevices. Nor could accommodating
milkmen continue the business of perambulating post offices for rebel letters,
nor broken-backed old gardeners procure passes for cabbage-heads, ostensibly,
but really, to pass out some scion of southern nobility, who had crept in for a
clean shirt or to have his head combed.
Resident friends here assure me that secessia is in a rampage at this.
They are as helpless as babes, and as toothless as the gentleman who
wriggled himself in to the good graces of a notable mother in Eden.
How galling it must be to these proud, haughty people.
They are almost to be pitied, for their pride is in their wealth, their
wealth is in their plantations, negroes, and public stocks--all of it fast
taking unto itself wings and flying away. . . .
Kentucky.
MEMPHIS
DAILY APPEAL [GRENADA, MS], November 29, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
[letter from Richmond] Since the
murder of Mr. Withnell, of which I wrote you in my last, the mayor of this city
has made a descent on two or three of the most noted houses of prostitution in
the city, and his court-room has been filled morning after morning with groups
of the wretched inmates of these establishments, brilliant with jewelry,
rustling in silks, and odors of mille-fleurs.
Twenty or thirty of them, in default of giving security for their future
good behavior, now inhabit the city jail. Richmond
has become the resort, it would appear, of all the disreputable citizens of the
Confederacy.
November
29, 1862 skips to December 13, 1862 when it is published in Jackson, MS