Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-11-07
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W. have numerous Federal account, from
Missouri all Of which tend TO show that FIRE.
mont is determined to prosecute the balance Of
the campaign vigorously. The Cincinnati Com
merciars correspondent writes from Osceola as
follows:
FREIoNT'S ARSIY.--A messenger has just
| arrived from Gen. Fremont. He has crossed
| the Usage and is eDcamped fifteen miles from
us Sigel Is with the general. Gen. McKins-
| try and Hunter bring up the rear, with thirty
| five thousand men. Fremont has twenty thou
] sand with him. We have been assigned q posi-
| ton at once honorable and important. We
march 10 the right OF the right wing of the
grand army, parallel to IT, unit. such time as it
/ may be necessary to concentrate. For our
stomachs sake, we are glad to be removed some
ten or fifteen miles from the many grinders Of
great army.
GEN. PRICE-A FEDERAL OPDION.-We
learn Price still runs. \ great many Of bis al
my are desertlng, and say they are tired OF war.
We let them 90 to their homes. They are
wretchedly clothed-literally with rags. One
who came into geutlemau'S house. a few DAYS
since, had simply sOles 10 the bottoms of his
feet, and rags around TO hold them in their
place. Their whole army must have stores
ST Louis or Cincinnati must furnish them. No
southern city has the goods. Away here where
We can neither see nor hear of the outside
world, it looks 10 us as if one or other of the
great cities OF Missouri, Kentucky OF Ohio, must
BY some means be compelled to give TO them.
In their desperation they will be driven 20 fight
for winter sustenance We viii undoubtedly
follow Gen Price and compel him to fight OF
disband. He cannot save his hide-neither can
all Arkansas and Missouri TO help, take or whip
rs.
ANOTHER EsTDIATE-An officer in the Fed
eral army, writing from Osceola to his friends in
Cincinnati, makes another estimate Of the
western army. lie says:
Gen. Fremont is fourteen miles from here,
with 10000 men. Generals Hunter and Nc
Kinstry are al Warsaw with 81, 600 more. Sigel
and Pope are somewhere with large forces, but
we do not know where. Gen. Lane is eight
miles south Of here, with from 500 to 1000
more men. We have ] 800 men. Our position
! is in the right wing Of the army, but for the
| present we viii march on the right about ten
miles, and pursue the army, but so we can ion
easily, if positions require it. l may not be able
10 write again for some time.
THE RCNs OF OsCEoLA!-The same writer
says:
The ruins of Osceola present a sad picture Of
war OSce0la was the county seat of st. Clair
county, had a population OF two to three thou
sand, aud did rery large business. 1t was
great rendezvous of secessiOuists. and here the
Confederate army under Gen. Price was sup
piled with cartridges, and number of other
necessarieS Of war. Gen. Jim Lane had Occa-
sion to come TO the little city about four weeks
ago. He was fired upon while marching through
Immediately the town was set on fire by his
men, and those citizens who fired upon him
were shot dead Not half dozen houses are
left, and have failed TO find more than three
families now living here. Either Osceola has
suffered for crimes as great as those of SOd0m,
or Gen. Jim Lanes chances Of heaven are
mighty slim.
have been looking among the ruins Of
Osceoa this evening, and talking with some of
the few inhabitants left. The owner OF a cottage
in which We are quaTtered was a notorious Sc
cessionist, and was shot and killed four weeks
ago in the fight with Lane and his men.
Two davs ago when Gen. Lane passed through
here again, negro, il is said, went and told
him where this man had hid a large amount of
lead. He dug for it, and beneath discovered ten
thousand dollars in gold, which Lane, of course,
could ind use for, if the story is true. Any how
the lead part is, for Capt. King brought in a
twenty pound piece to mould bullets from to-
night.
I never thought a city sacked and burned
would be cheering sight, but it was to-day.
Jim Lane understands the crisis. Ifyou would
kill the viper, cut of its head, not stick it with
a pin, that only pains and inturiates The loss
of Osceola TO the secession cause, viii be more
severly felt than the lives Of 5000 men inbattle
The Confederate army in Missouri is made mp o f
men who are not regularly enlisted and sworn
in, but who have negroes at home to put in the 7!
crops, milk the COWS, chUrn the butter, get the |
wood, and in fact provide for their families; they
do nothing; they have their darkies. Now what |
makes me excitable is, that we 20 through this |
country, and let these negroes stay, while their
masters are fighting us in the army. II we set |
them free, the men would have to come home to |
AXE care of their families