The Abingdon Virginian. [volume] (Abingdon [Va.]) 1849-1883, 1862-12-05

siderable duantiti, sof money for army purposes.
| had none but Confederate notes, yet no one
not even one, show dttnwiiiingness to take thefr
bur in every instance seemed to take them witt
more alaer.ty than TO the generality OF farmers
i'll Virginia. bought corr at 40 cents per
bushel boots tcoarse) at 81 per pair, coarse
stout shoes at So, the best of gray Jeans
bought at Sl,50 per yard, such as would sell iA
Virginia readily at 81. Bac n could hays
bought in quantities at s cents per pound
Flour at SIS per barrel, and every thing else IN
proportion. Since we left the State, however, +
learn from persons coming through, that our
money has somewhat deprecated, hut that'there
is nowhere in the State where it will not pass
among Southern n Ell for al least 90 cents to the
dollar. and il many localities it stin passes ut
par, but even ut so cents to the dollar, clothing,
and especially provisions, would cost US only one
half what they are costing US everywhere else
in the Confederacy where her curr, ncy is momi.
naLty at par. ...;st
Had General Bragg remained in Kentucky.
Confederate notes would now. in the purchase
Of her surplus products, be at par in reality e.
equal to gold; and Kentucky would now be the
meat house and granary Of the Confederate arr
my, which would be in6n tey better for Us than
feeding on our Virginia brethren At the enors
nous prices we have to pay, detouring that
which the people are poorly prepared to spare.
So far as we are advised, hot one K, Erugky
General, nor one prominent citizen Of K,nsuckyss
approved Of Bragg's precipitate retreat from the
State, without even an effort 10 hold il. General
Bragg charges that the State furnished him but
few recruits, perhaps not more than or 100:
This may be true, so far as he was concerned,
for he never entered far into the State, and his
stay was too short to give any confidence that
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thousands were rising up and focking to our.
standard and if our forces had ,ema Ned in. the
State few weeks longer. kentucky would have,
furnished a large army for us, The county Of
which I am citizen, Mont geometry, is small
one yet brought out with NE over 400 recruits.
(mounte,l menu and had been permitted ;fp,
have remained there a few weeks longer, could
have recruited double as nlahy. land not Of the
..cmw6shing' kindly
Coi Giltner, Of Carroll County, in q very
short time, raised and brought out with him. s
full regiment Of excellent men. mounted on
splendid horses, All Others who undertook to
recruit were more or less successful 1t is I'M
occasionally true, and deplore the fact, that
some of the new recruits of different commands
refused to leave.the State and for this they rest
under the charge Of being towards and deser7,
tiers. No arguments can be brought forward to-
justify such an inglorious ..back ng" from the
ca use to which they had voluntarily pledged
themselves, and to which they were hound By
every consideration Of honor and duty. nor have
the least inclination to attempt their justfca-
ton, stiff, before inyeighing too heavily against
the conduct of these men, We should remember
how Vwgaians last summer fefu-ed to go intos
Kentucky when ordered there BY Cen, Marshall,
many of them deserving and returning to their
homes, rather than leave their State. Yet this
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cause they dreaded the har,lships they would
have to undergo. in making the march Through,
the mountains; besides, they had no confidence
that our army would remain in Eentn.ky, in.
which. it turned out they judged Correctly.
just so With those Kentnekian> WHO enlisted and
failed to come out--they had almost as. soon die
there as to winter in the mountains ox Western
Virginia and undergo the lardsisps our, Ken
tucy boys suffered last winter more particular
" to meet the slurs and taunts Of the Virgnians,
whose substance they would have to dey0tr in
order to subsist Most Of them had families
and property they couldnot remove away, and
they had no pledge that the army, would eyer
return. in fact it was currently reported that
Bragg and other General officers sta,eS publicly
that they would never go to Kentucky again: !.
i am we'll satisfied that General Bragg is no
friend to Ks.ntucky, and that il wosh. have been
far better for her and for the Confederate cause,
If he had never entered that State.
( Neither do believe that President DAVIS is
! our friend, as he has never. done anything for
Kentucky. bnt what has been done to all APP
pearance reluctantly and grudginaly. Never
theless the soldiers Of Kentucky are disposed 10
be of good cheer, knowing that the great Con-
federacy of the South does not all belong exclu-
sively to General Bragg or TO President Da-
WIS.,. Fhe Indies Of old Georgia have pledged to
doff their crinolines. don the parts ami .take
the soldiers place. before the fair fields Of old
Kentucky shall BE- given up to the barbarnrs
of the North and this we know to be ths feeling
Of the South generally. Therefore, .Kentuck
inns, take courage (! fight on until the last ore
in the field is exterminatel, rather than your
once proud State shall remain under the th,awlf
dom Of Lincoln r. j..
The Dream Of Life.
How fewof US al The close of life can sly.
III have filed and occuried the postum to
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