Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-10-03
L.xingtsn after the Surrender.

The Missouri Republican of Saturday gives
the following account Of affairs in Lexington,
Mo, after the surrender of Col. Mullisan:
The scenes around the streets Of Lexington,
Friday, after the surrender, beggars all de-
scription. The howls of joy and drunken jubi-
lation, coming from 80, 900 throats, made up a
sound scarcely less than when, two days be-
fore, Is pieces of artillery and 10000 small
arms were shattering the air In one hideous
chorus. The officers Of the Confederates were
generally gentleman, and behaved as such;
but as for the common soldiers and their course,
that evening, / don't believe it could be
equalled were all hell to be turned loose for a
general carnival. Whisky, Of course, was
therein mems brains, in their eyes, BRAN
dished in bottles, galloping "like mad" along
the street, hoarsely believing over the grand
victory, cursing, disappearing, yelling, bub-
bling, hurrahing-laying in the gutter, insult
ing prisoners, quarreling among friends-thus
and more did Whisky-the grand moving spirit
that won the battle, and then rejOiced over its
success.
Very true, scarcely a hundred of all the
Confederate troops were Enthusiastically
two had guns alike-no two exhibited the same
trappings. Here went one fellow in a shirt of
brilliant green, on his side an immense cavalry
sabre, in his belt tive navy revolvers and a
bowie knife, and slung from his shoulder a
Sharp's rife. Right by his side was another,
in his hand double -barreled shot gun, in his
boot an immense scythe, on his heel the in
evitable spur, his whole appearance from tat
tered boot, through which gazed audaciousIy
bis toes, indicating that the plunderings Of
many different locality make up the whole
Generally the soldiers were armed with shot
guns or squirrel rifles; some had old lock
muskets, few had MIME guns, and others
Sharp's or Maynard rifles, while all, to the
poorest, had horses.
The very elite of the Confederate forces were
there-Generals Price, Rains, Slack, Parsons,
Harris, Green, Hardee, we're all there-Colo-
nels Saunders, Payn, Beal, Turner, Craven,
Clay, and, in short believe the balance of
the 5000 men, all either coloneIs or majors,
as was introduced to no one who was not
either the one or the other.
The treatment extended by the Confederate
officers to the prisoners was both humane and
courteous; they protected them, when possible,
from insult aad plundering, and as much as
possible extended to them the courtesies with
which chlValrous enemy always treats con-
quered foe.
saw one case that shows the Confederat te
style of fighting. An old Texan, dressed in
buckskin and armed with long rifle, used to
60 up to the works every morning about seven
o'clock, carrying his dinner in a tin pail.
Taking good position he banged away at the
Federals till noon, then rested an hour, ate his
dinner, and resumed operations till six p. IN.
when he returned home to supper and a night s
sleep. The next day little before seven, saw
him, dinner and rifle in hand, trudging up
street to begin again his regular days work
and In this style he continued till the surren-
der.
But little damage was done to the city Col
Anderson's house was literally sprinkled with
grape and musket shot, and the brick house
south Of the College was burnt to the ground,
another lost its roof and contents; while all in
that immediate neighborhood retain more or
less marks Of the contest.
The dead Of the Federals were not buried
till the next day after the surrender; and a
more loathsome sight than these blackened,
hideous cOrpses / never saw or imagined.
Some seventy horses we're also killed. These,
too, were as hideOus and disgusting in many
respects as the poor remains of humanity that
lay about them-all poisoned the air with the
stencil of decomposition, and shocked terribly
the sensibilities by their CHASTITY wounds, their
agonized positions, and loathsome evidences of
decay which characterized them all.