Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-10-14
LEXINGTON AFTER THE sURREN
DER.

LEXINGTON AFTER THE SURREN-
DER.
1he Missouri Republican of Saturday
gives the following account Of affairs in
Lexington, No. after tn ! surrender of Col.
Mulligan;
The scenes around the streets of Lex
ington, Friday, after tho surrender, beg,
gars all description. The howls ofjoy and
drunken jubilation, coming from 10000
throfts, made up h 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 Conlederates
were generally gentlemen, and behaved
as such but as for the common soldiers
and their course, that evening, | don't
believe it could be eqalled were all hell to
be turned loose for u general carnival
Whisky, of course, was therein mems
brains, in their eyes, brandished in bot.
tics, galloping like mad along the
street, hoarsely believing over the grand
victory, cursing, blasphemlng, yelling,
bubbling, hurrahing-laying in the gut
teg insulting prisoners, quarreling among
friends-thus and more did whisky - th9
grand moving spirit that won the battle,
and then rejoiced over ils success.
Very true, scarcely hundred of the
Confederate troops We're uniformed e..
scarcely Two had guns alke-no two ex.
hibitOd the same trappngs. Here went
one fellow in a shirt of brilliant green. on
his side an immense cavalry sabre, in bis
belt two navy revolvers and bowie knife,
and slung from his shoulder =. Sharpe's
rife. Right by his side vas another, upon
whose hip tangled light medical sword,
in his hand double barreled shot. gun.
in his boot an immsnse scythe, on his
heel the inevitable spur, his whole ap-
pearaEce from ta:tered boot, through
which gazed audaciously his toes, indica-
ting that the plunderings of many di-
ferent locality make up the whole. Gen.
orally the soldiers were armed with shot
guns or squirrel rifles some had old lock
muskets, few had MIME guns, and 9TH
els Sharpe's or Maynard's rifles, while oil,
TO the poorest, had horses.
The very elite Of the Confederate forces
were there-Gcnerals Price, Rains, Slack,
Parsons Harris, Green, llardee, were all
there Colonels Saunders, Payn, Beal,
1
lieye, the balance of the $4,000 men. all
either colonels Or majors, as | was intro>
duced to no one who was not one or the
othor.
The treatment extended by the Con-
federate officers to the prisoners was both
humane and courteous they protected
them, when possible, f:ou insult and
plunderihg. and as much as possible, tX'
tended to them the courtesies with which
ch!valrous enemy treats q conquered foe.
saw one case that shows the Conteder.
ate style of fighting. An old Texan,
dressed in buckskin and armed with u
loag rifle used togo up to The works every
morning about seven o'clock, carrying his
dinner in 4 tin pail. Taking good po'
sition be banged away at the Fedorals till
noon, then res ted an hour, ate his dinner,
and resumed operations till six pm,
when he returned home to supper and a
nights sleep. The next day little before
seven, saw him, dinner and rifle in hand,
trudling up street to begin again his reg
ular days work-and in this style he con
tinued till the surrender.
But little damage was done TO the city.
NOl. -AnueIbOU , lIOuet WAS lllcIullI hpIlu-
xIed with grape and musket shot, and the
brick house south of the College was
burnt to the ground another lost it, roos
and contents; while all in that immediate
neighborhood retain more or less marks
Of the contests.
Tie dead OF the Federals were no. bur-
ied ill the next day after the surrender I;
and more loathsome sight than these
black ened, hideous corpses | never saw or
imagined. Some seventy horses were al
so killed. These, too, were as hideous
and disgusting in many respects as the
poor remains of humanity that lay about
them-all poisoned the ar with the stencil
of decomposition, and shocked terribly
the sensbilities by their ghastly wounds,
their agonized positions, and loathsome
evidences of decay which characterized
them oil.