The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-15
Rebel poings at Frankfort.


They we're liberal enough with their
money, such as il was, and seemed 20
show its value by the indifference with
which they parted with 1t. s.sI ~.
The butchers were, Of course, unwill-
ing TO take such currency, but a sergeant
with file ofhmen, marched from the
Capital Hotel,l which Gen. Bragg had oc-
cupied as headquarters, into the market
house and made purchases or seizures to
the amount of seventeen dollars. He Of
fered twenty dollars, but the butcher
had not the change, "d--n the ohange;"
said the soldier and walked eff II was
the same everywhere they made purchas-
es. II made no difference whether the
price was five or twenty five dollars, it
was all the same. A Colonel bought for
five dollars (Confed. scrip of course)
half-worn hat, worth perhaps four when
new, off a gentleman's head, and saun-
tered off as proud as squaw with q
string of beads. Their apparent con-
tempt for it of course made the citizens
more reluctant 20 take the money, but
there was no choice. There were some
little take offs such as Crutcher of the
Capitol politely changing fifty dollar
greenback for Bob Wolley, giving him
forty eight dollars in Confederate shin
plasters for change.
They were polite enough 60 visit us.
A very civil young man came to Mr..
Lewis and after some awkward stam-
merings and pauses, he said he had an
order from General Bragg TO take the pa
per and ink belonging TO the Common
wealth Office, paying for it in the butter
nut colored rage of the Confederacy.
He was brought TO the office and
shown the supply of our own paper for
tunately a small one, worth two hundred
and fifty or three hundred dollars. The
State paper was in the same room, and
when he inquired about it, Mr.. Lewis
told him thst it did not belong to the
Commonwealth" but to other parties,
being careful not TO make known who
the other parties were. This the young
man said he wouldn't touch, adding with
a real appearance of distress, his morti-
fication at having TO do what was little
other than robbing For, he added "
know this money is no value to you what
ever" We can only regret that this young
man should be in service which involves
such unpleasant duties. ....
The day after the citizens were told
private property was not to be disturbed,
the railroad bridge was burned, but that
is to be ascribed to malice personal to
railroads in general. 10 .o.a
The heaviest haul they made was at
the Frankfort woollen factory They
entered this and seized seventy four thou
sand nine hundred and sixty yards Of
kentucky Jeans, for which the company
expected to realize this winter as much
as one dollar and fifty cents per yard.
AS usual, they promised to pay, in their
peculiar currency, one dollar per yard,
but neglected TO do so. In the mean while
the Federal army advanced upon Frank
fort, and the rebel Inauguration broke up
in most admired disorder. They fed,
and with them fled all probable hopes OF
the seventy five thousand dollars due the
woollen factory. Mr.. Watson having
been sent as agent to get back either
goods or money, was handed eight thou
sand dollars, bogus currency, and told
that was all they had.
Their doings through the country were
, not marked with the temperance they
were in town. The flimsy veil was torn
off. Scotts cavalry camped on the farm
of Mr.. Adam @. Keenon, and without Of
fering scrip, scrape of the pen, or thank
ye, they took thirty acres of the finest
oats raised in the county, one hundred
barrels of corn, leaving Mr. Keenon fOl
his winter supply, neither a sheaf of oat,
or barrel of corn. In the same way
they entered his meat house and emptied
T, it.
The farms Of Mr.. Phil. Swigert, j. A
{ Richardson, and Joseph Clark, in the
same neighbrhood, suffered in like man
ner. II lis TO be added that, when the Fed
erals forces came by, they completed the
destruction by burning the rails. We
suppose they thought the fencing was OF
no use when all the stock and fodder was
gone.
, The grand day Of skedaddle came
The commander-in- chief, the newly
hatched Governor, and all the small fry
generals were gathered at the Capital
Hotel, over rather q plain Inauguration
, dinner. The Governor was presenting
some gracious requests, and promising 70
hang and imprison q few Union men, az
personal favor TO some aequaintances
when a Scream faced loon" announced
to Macbeth Bragg that "BiornSm Wood
} had come to Dunsinane" other words
that the Federals were at hand Then
3 there was mounting in hot haste. Kirby
Y Smith walking up and down and looking
much agitated, and Hawes scared until
be looked like a white man. The ladies
only were indignant and angry at having
70 rnn. but they all showed off ia the
cars, leaving Col. Scott ito do the Gus
tomAry duty of burning bridges One
of them was spared, and we expect he
has been cashiered for IT,
These are all the incidents we can re-
call-except the dropping Of a shell