The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-10-03

s.,as, After the Taking Of Lexington, Mo.
correspondent of the St Louis Republican
.,-s describes he action, appearance, &C., OF
.,.r.5es after they had caused Col. Mullisan S
.,n,nt utc}c band at Lexington to surrender !;
The scenes around the streets OF Lexington,
r+1ay, alter tie surrender. b2ggar all descrip-
49,, The bowls Of joy and drunken jubllation
.r..n, from thirty thousand threats, made up
.oo.,, scarcely less than when. two days be
-. .i,bteen pieces of artillery and ten thou
~ smll ans, were shattering the air in one
.t.o1, chorus. The officers Of the Confederate
Wv were gentlemen. and behaved It's such :;
-. Is far the common soldiers and their course,
.-'. evening". don t believe it could be equalled
..,.. III he'll to he turned loose for a general
.~gjya. Whisky, Of course, was there in
.asn's brains. in their eyes, brandishing in bot
-: .allopius like mad along the street,
,I1r.e.v believing over the great victory, ours
M, baspheming, babbling, hurrahing-laying
= the gutter, insulting prisoners, quarreling
.71uc iriends-thus and more did whlsky-the
rad moving spirit that wen the battle and then
.4ia iced over its success.
'Yery true, scarcely u hundred of all the Con-
..l,rate troops were uniformed-scarcely two
nd runs alike-no two exhibited the same trap
rfrol Here went one fellow in a shirt Of bril-
'ar5 green, on his side an immense cavalry sa
~, N his belt Two navy revolvers and a bowie
:nit+. and slung from his shoulder Sharps ri
4 Right by lis side was another, upon whose
in lausled light medical sword, in his hand
.iyu5le bar. cleo shot gun, in his boot an inn
psnse scythe, on his heel the inevitable spur,
Il, Whole appearance from tattered boot,
through which sazed audaciously his toes, indi-
..IDg that tn. plunderings of many different
.c.ly made up his whole. Generally the sol
II Is were armed with shot guns or squirrel ri
e, some had the old flint lock muskets, a few
all Nnie guns, and others Sharp's or May
14rd rifles, while all to the poorest, bad horses.
I5every elite of the Confederate force were there,
The treatment extended by the Confederate
filters to the prisoners was both humane and
ceartevus--they protected them when possible
::om insult aud laundering, and as much as
r.,>t.c extended to them the cOurtesles with
vicha caiyaIrous enemy always treats con-
40..yl foe.
q. til. losses on both sides will not PIE tend
:g>rea; with accuracy Hundreds Of the men
va, tough. On the Confcderat side We're attached
:; NJ c}mmand--:hey came in when they
,..-s d. fought or not us they pleased, left when
,.ir. ana if killed were buried on the spot,
were missed from no muster roll and hence
rmd not be reckoncd in the aggregate loss.
lac Coae!erJtes vary in their statements-onc
s%,taey lost sixty Killed, another said their
is, w.s 1t east equal to the Federals, while
I'll. another admitted to he that the taking of
l.: works cost them thousand men IN killed
-, wounded. From the very large number 0!
..aia.> in the Town fiona which the hospital
"a. Wa, dying, am inclined to believe That the
as. admission is close upon the truth
saw ore case that shows the Confederate style
y. lighting. An old Texan, dressed in buck-skin
I'D rned with q long rife, used to go up t,
lit works every morning about O'Clock, car
lying his dinner in a tin pail. Taking good
POSITION he banged away at the Federals till
Hyyn-then rested an hour, after which he re-
s.l2I his operations till G P. NJ, when he re
4'usd home to supper and d nights sleep. The
*: day, little before I, saw him dinner and
'.ls in hand, trudsng up street to begin again
,:egplaT day S work, and in this style he con-
u1led TIL The surrender. y