The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1862-05-24
!raoM ouR War copREsPoHpEHT.
HAD ouARrEas SOurH-wEsrEnN Amy
I BaI esyiiio Ark. My 11th. 1851.

OBA2 EUlT ~ AtsoU ~
march over the Ozsrks, No are At Lost rest
ing, - it we're, 10 Paradise. in 'h'ssoe ut
ful town. We came in here from our last
ON the 8rh, and are now c"nped I"
the hank. Of White river, . besusiful, clear.
swift running stream, ab ,unding IN hsh,
which the boys have very poor luck !"
catching. The population Of the town, Dc
fore the rebellion broke out, was fifteen os
sixteen hundred, but being built so as :"
have a large yard to each house. Is seems
extensive enough to accommodate three
people. There are very t." pref
tier towns than this 10 America. Many o.
the buildings are fine and beautiful. snae1
trees, grass lawns. and gardens, bfisli"nr
with the many flowers OF Dixie, ab"osd.-
Then It has another charm for bachelhrd"n'
in general, and more especially for rs fe'-
,ovs who have been away from Iowa 9"
long-n has lots Of pretty girb. Mast o
them are rebels, aud When We entered th'
town we found them very bitter against thu
"feds." The Iowa boys, wherever they 9"
are praised for their gallantry, and the Al
fully sustains the reputation Of the Stat
among these pretty Sou,hernars. We ha'
20 put on some .scheek" to become acquain.
ted with them at first, but men who had
been in the ..wilderness'' for three months
could not stand on the punctil j OF Che
,erfeld, and so .swent in." And what h"s
been the result? Why, in three days VIC
have bee me known by all the citizens, as a
regiment of gentlemen. Nearly every TAM
iIv here has one or IN IRE OF its me'nn-r'in
the rebel army. but their mothers, wives an
sisters have so much confience in US thai
they say they are sure it We mees thr''
friends wounded or prisoners, we will al
ways trent them well and they promise y"
turn, that if they, the ladies, ever meet U,
in a similar plight, We shall have the kind
est care. 5a5
Expecting to cross the river and march
for Little r OK Saturday morning, a few OF
Us set to work in good earnest t." get up "
bali FRIDAY night, and with the hearty Q"
operation Of two Or three young blo"ds OF
he town, we succeeded, and had q capital
Everything went of pleasantly, and
the citizens assure Us now that If we stay
until Tue sday night we Can get out a very
party. The effect OF this social in
would astonish and conf"und bla
drfende 8 of treason. The people here
had been told, over and over again, by m"
sho knew they lied, that when the ''frd
ZANE, they would burn, kill AID destr".
ike a horde of merciless s~avng"s-that the
would butcher MANNED men in cold
blood, rav,>h women, and toss little chil-
dren with their bayonets for sport. 10 the
these internal stories were believed
by many some of them deserted their
and fed in terror at our approach
others reasoned that death at hnm
was better than exile and its accompanying
train Of m,series, aud 80 awaited our arrival
u lChi s"IO 'AViHo'lups lu tOWu SuCu
were too monstrous to obtain much cre
dence, for the citizens hal better sources Of
information than the country folks, but even
they expected TO be treated with in>olrnc,
and rrutality, and now they are AS mach as
TOMS ed as they are delighted to 6"d US
''boue of their bone, and flesh Of their
and simply engaged in restoring she
supremacy of the dear old flag they loved
70 well so little time ago. Instead uf tram
bling their liberties IN the dust. and estab
over them u cruel and grinding drs-
potism which they have been taught to BIZ
became the Federal government when he
took the chair. l speak what Iknow, when
| say that a majority of the people We nave
IN Arkansas, that have relatives in the
rebel army, and whose sympath,es were, of
strongly enlisted in the rebel cause,
are glad to see the Old emblem Of pro,ec.
ion and power floating over them again.
The scales are falling from their eyes I; the
and %rottenness, and damnuble
cheat OF secession are being revealed to
1t is doubtless the same all over the
South, and when this war is over, when thu
gives way to renewed allegiance.
The pet fedgling Of Calhoun uiI be dead
l hnrr'ed!y wrote you a few lines on the
9Th, from Gen. Curtis headquarters, and
intended to have written again before this,
but coming to town and l%uxur'at,ng in clvi
knocked all thoughts of writing
than n kite.
There was an nminous lnll here on FIJI.
day and Saturday in military operations
and loyal men 10 the army and out of It
into each others faces and wonder.
ed ii there could possibly be any truth i
the report that We had been defeated a,
Corinth. Yesterday, the Democrat of the
made US l'ght-hearted, for, IN. CLAN.
cling over its kilograms we were at once
convinced that the rumor was groundless.
On Friday Gen. Curtis had ord rs TO send
ten regiments to Cape G,rardeau by forced
He sent them, and the hardy
is now rapidly pushing its way
through to the RIVER.
The 9th Iowa is crossing White River
to. day, and We expect to eros. Tomorrow.
Mcclellan and seven men of the 81
illinois Cavalry were drowned last night IN
to cross White River in a Cat.
boat. They had three horses on the bna,
them md ann,a oE thor. -.