Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-10-14
LEXINGTON AFTER THE SURREN
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LEAiNuloN AFLEh IhE suRAEN :
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lie Missouri Htpp5!cHl OF Saturday
gives the following account Of affairs in
Lexington, Mo, aiterth! surrender OF Col.
Muilisan:
The scenes around the streets of Lex
ington, FRIDAY, after the surrender, beg>
gars all description. The hows oijoy and
drunken JubIatlon, coming from 10000
throits, iaade up sound scarcely less
than when, two days before Is pieces of
artillery and ten thousand small arms
were shattering the air in one hideous
chorus, The officers Of the Coniederates
were generally gentlemen, and lehaved
as such but a. Tor the common soldiers
and their course, that evening, ! don't
believe 1t could be eqnlled were all hell to
be turned loose FOR general carnival
Whisky, Of course, was therein mems
brains, in their eyes, brondished in bot.
ties, galloping like mad along the
street, hoalseiy believing over the grand
victory, cursing, tlaspheming, yelling,
bubhlne. hurrahIng-Mying in the gut
tos insulting prisoners, quarreling among
friends-thus and more did whisky th4
grand moving spirit that won the battle,
and then reJolced over its success.
Very true, scarcely hundred Of the
Confederate troops were uniformed 90
1c'teo'! t"o n'u guns "''Ne-n1 TWO eN'
nlo't.u 'he s"'ilo L"Pp,"EE,S,i, -, Ilcre went
one !eIlo" IN oIll'v ol o'i''Ia'it green on
n'S sue "' 'u''i'e'Se o"'"I'y NHpre, IA nIS
oe's TWO navy 'eNo'!e'H anu oo"ie h'i''r'
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nv go " ,''5 " 80 y
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"' SUNS, ','' - ", 'o"' '4"''T - "e'T az
w, nne'e- Co'o"e'' p'u""oiH' T!n, iT"''
.u.Ie. OiNIe.', ny, o''@ " ZOO ~, ''o y "i,
litte, 'lG o''H"cc VI w oo,'J0 'n''', u''
e''ner c"Iohe'9 u lii'Jor9' 4" wa" ih.Io>
ouceu 10 10 one VINO was not one o' 'ho
od'oF'
ihe treatment extended by the Con'
rederaie officers to the prisoners was both
humrne aud courteous; they protected
them when possible, i:oiu Insult and
! plunderihg. and as much rs possible, tN'
tended to them the courtesles with which
a ch.yalrous enemy treats conquered Toe.
|. saw one case that shows the Conicder'
ate style of fighting. An old Texan,
dressed in buckstin and armed with a
lo:g rifle, used togo Up to the works every
morning about seven o'clock, carrying his
dinner in Tin pail Taking good 20,
sition be banged away at the tederaIS tiII
noon, then rested an h"lr, ate ms ulEhef'
when he returned home to supper aud u
nights sleep. The next day alittle before
seven, saw hIrl, dinner and rIiie IN hahd,
truds sing up street to begn again ms reg
ular days work-and in this style he con
linned till the surrender.
But little damage was done to tde city.
Col. Andcrson's house was literally sprin-
'lled with grape and musket shot, and the
brick house south of the College was
burnt to the ground mother lost Its roo
and contents; while alI IN that immediate
neighborhood retain more or less marks
OF the contests.
Tie dead OF the FcderaIs were no! bur-
icl I'LL the next daY alter the surrender
and more loalhsomc sight than these
blackened, hideous corpse, never sa" or
Imagined. Some seventy horses were al
so killed. These, too, weio MS hldeous
and disgusting ~ maE respects as the
poor Remains Of humamty That lay about