Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-09-03
Kansas OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Gen -I'fcheHs Method Of Dealing ,gsfl
Rebels
lUka, Miss, Aug I5 1862

he0ctS.
lUka, Miss, Aug. 10 1862.
There Is most cheering change in III.
animus of the army here. no less than !,
the spirit at home Six weeks ayo. at IL.
head qu"r>ers of Gen. JET C. Davis. mi0b
be seen some soldier tied by the thumbs. o,
otherwise disSraced and piined, be..ause
he had awaited fImSei. of an onion or M
/ t2so, OK some native chicken. utl. e~wi ist
/ than through the miSSarY department
i reminding those Of rs who were famiiia,
with the Missouri campaign, Of the tim;
| when men were tied, six 10 IA To- chain
and made 10 march ali dav thus ineunber
! ed, because, in the forced march from
/ Datesviie to Cape Girlr,iean 26J miles
made IN ten days, they had appropriated
fele. bacon, not accordingto the army req
u.ations.
/ / have Travelled with the armr aIenu
/ this same route two months ago, when
General Buell. : men guarded every hen
/ Eoo>t ev:Fy bee-.iiv everg fcnce-rail. and
every negro quarters ana, moreover. DIS
tributed with lavished hand f!o;lr. and
bacon, and coffee to the wives and children
OF sc :eSh soldiers and vet found the
;nlmus oi the natives in ne decree nlaca-
ted by these acts of kindness, hat they
then as now took every opportunity to be
I tray Us, and not few of our brave men
were shot in the blackberry patches or
when Tagging behind their regiments
overcome by fatigue
There IS 4 change Of policy. The Pres.
idents order IS somewhat Observed.
though Yesterday the officers Of the 9th
Illinois drove away a lot Of ne.lo.s who
IN l- -,
many 81 them were re t. ken hv their mas
ters to be shot, no doub Tor that is now
the common fate OF all slaves who had s-iv-
en- IN tications OF uncasincss. ! have not
been at his quarters for some weeks. but
can testify that Gen. Mitchell, who com
manded the brigade now stopping here, a
part ot the division commanded hy Gen.
Davis, has quite a different mode Of pros
credinG Ills men have roasting ears,
and whatever else the country affords
By the way, this is not the Gen. Mitch
ell OF = r-gazint notorlety, but Robert B
Mitchell of Kansas, formerly of Mount
Vernon. Ohio. Ma fure has given him 81 cor
pus OF no mean magnitude. and = mind in
which common sense pradominates Be
fore he left Ohio ne had studied au4 r1rac-
ticed law enough to sharpen bis wits; and
he learned military tactics in the fields of
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lei to test the LOYALTY Of an cid planter.
who bad often visited the camp at .!uciuto
RS a peddior OF onions and other luSuries,
4 part OF his staff were sent forward to
alle-e. had be II accommodating around
with an army, and after sharp engage
ment, mad whipped the tnionists and had
taken a large lot OF prisoners The o!d
planter was delighted to see Gen Price,
\ ! ! IL
ant information bis host gave him rs to the
number and localities of the Union forces
all OF which the planter assured him be
had obtained from personal observation
in the ruise OF Il pedd.cr H.s two sons
and a nephew corrohorated these state
ments, and volunteered to lead Gen Price
to the Union army in the morning The
general, grateful Ter this iormat;on, ask
ed for The tane friends Of the confederacy
in the nei-hhorhopd, ard for things which
they had done TO prove their fidelity, SO
that before morning lie had list OF TWEEN
tr or more who had done numerous things
worthy Of mention. and who were beyond
question loyal to the South under all elner
gcncies. most 0f whom had like the host
an his family, visited the Union camps.
At late hour the planter and his guest
1en. to bed, to wake M in the morning
and End the yard full of blue pants with
muSkets, guarding some twenty or more
disarmed butternuts, and guarding at the
same time the house and its inmates
How Gen Mitchell managed to apologize
suitably for the mistake he had made, !
am net informed / only knew that old
secesh found himself sold without price,
and that he and his sons and nephew, in
,-.,l, Ia
Mitchell to his qaarters, where they are
now prisoners Of war
4 wealthy planter living some twenty
miles south of this place, not knowing the
change which had come over the spirit of
our dreams, came into cnmo the other day
for two os his boys who. in an un1ratc-
fui fit, had gone to work on our tort;dc =
tion~. here. In the tru" spirit oi a tyrant
he demanded their surrender. And why
not2 Had we not alrvavs oheved orders
When the Colonel Of the 9th Illinois told
him that he could not give them up, Sc
ce>h got mad Indeed he felr insa'ted
an chose to say that he would he reven-
rel that he would. He was n rich
mnn-able u suDport guerilla band for
y vcar and he'd / c d II he didn Z
do it After no little of suah staff he was
permitted TO depart But in a short time
after. detail of true men, with & lot OF
wagons and cavalry were in hot pursuit Of
him. who rcached his plantation before
morning and gave him most pressing IN
vtetion to dance Attendance upon Gen.
Mitchell They invited his tarkics, at
leas. f,tT of them. % work ior the Union.
and the WAGONS hauled OF some fifty bales
Of cotton. which now lie ON the platform
here waiting 5 ipment North
+ Another expedition, almost identical in
is details and results, came of last night
tho surprised victim heing one Of the 10y
al men whom Gen. Prizes host gave infor
motion about The aStanishment of th,
Old plauter ~ herring his history read
from m nuscript iook-the horse he
gave to guerilla, and h0w ne charged
nothing for him; the number of negroes
be was about 70 send south, and other
things. all cf which he supposed Were
known only in Heaven and in the confed
,.racv He sna his ne@r0cs are now 70,
the Union. end his co-,on also This i
onIv the heginning of the good times com
ing, But the people are verify mad abou
il