The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-08-09

properly to-@oSfoW.J ne 0iemisoeo toom under
. strong gusfd and With ~ sdnosssssn 70 p.s.
pare for the worst, and to make their p.ace with
their God. They are kept In . building n
the village, under strong guard We have
seven Of them now confined there, and we o..
pect to capture more tomorrow.
Z The teams that accompanied tie brigade il
the last expedition have returned this evsnisa
and orders have been issued for oil the camps
here to move on to Memphis. We shall leave
on Friday morning. The expedition accoen-
plished oil they Intended They have retaksu
al the Government wagons that The gusrrillas
had taken and most Of the mules -levying
contrbution on The Inhabitants in that article 10
make up the number lost They found some Of
the harnesses in cotton gins, spd some under
the beds Of the houses which they searched.-
This settles the question that the citizens
themselves are, at least In league with shess
bands. They made but single arrest-one !,
whose house some harness and other property
was found. The brigade is At Lafayette and viii
remain there till We come up with them with tho
camp. - q. Rosr,u
~ En- ROUTE 70 xxxrHs, July IL, 1862
9 M EDITOR II appears now that We are "a
abandon al that portion Of the Memphis and
Charleston railroad that Is between Nemnh;.
and Grand Junction. This ID . straseeic move
ment which will only change little the base Of
our operations We shall still hold the Ohio
and Mobile road, and the Memphis and Coluu.
bus, which will throw our base, for the time. 4
little further North. Whether It prove to be 4
judicious movement remains to be seen. ssfs
Before We left Moscow the railroad bridge
which had been rebuilt across Wolf river v.s
destroyed, together with the gun car which W.
nearly completed. It was run down on ths
bridge and the whole cot On fire. Thus the
scheme of constructing sunboats to operate On
land has been abandoned for the present. .s4 ed
Waleft camp this morning ct an early hour.
and came to Lafayette BY ten o'clock. The
troops left there, including our own regiment. b
marched on. In advance Of us q we came up
We made le miles and bivouaced near Colysr-
vile. The number of troops and the length Of
the train made our progress slow and tedious
It Vas IL o'clock 1t night before all were IN
camp Our whole train must be over ton miles
long. Ihave found no Union men to-day. At
q house where stopped for dinner there were
three iwomer-the mother and two daughtera-
One Was married and her husband, and her
brother were in the rebel army. They had heard
from neither for three months The old lady
thought it a:dreadful thing for brothers to DO
lighting in this way and wished that peace
would soon come so that they could live as they
did before. She said . {" heap had enlisted in
that neighborhood, and some of them had been Is
killed in the battle of shiloh. Captain Ham.
mond, A. A. Gen. on Gen. Sherman's staff. was
preeent, and in answer to the question how long
ne thought the war would last, said, ," not in
FOUR life time or mine will it close. When xs
get through with this war We shall have 1 worse
'ne on our hands at::the North. We shall return %
nome and kill all the I'D Abolitionists there
before We can have peace" This IL the spirit
# some Of our officers in high commands. No
wonder that the war progresses so tardily. They
Are very tender With rebels, but are peculiarly
bitter and venomous against truly loyal men,
take it that the Captain means by Abolition
he Republican party, % the Valandisham clan
to which he probably belongs-cslls them. ON
July l9.-Our Brigade marched IN front to-
lay and We came to Germantown about twelve
o'clock. I. Ildid not lesrn that there were any
Union men in this place. Appearances are all
ecesh. The Inhabitants are barely, coldiy
ivil, and some wear . oountenance Of strong
version. They say that the North has "wrong p,
d them" Wherein? One said, Tin passing
ersonal liberty bills" Have those personal i
liberty bills ever injured you or any one else p
lo; but then the principle was wrong and un-
constitutional. This is their only Justification.
hey ccan see no Internationally in thsir
onduct, but the North is all wrong. '.-..
We encamped nine miles from Memphis
bout two o'clock this afternoon, where We shall
emain until Monday morning. .,...-..-...
July 20-As soon, as the troops. encsmped
esterday, secessionist, who lived about half .
lille from our camp, left and has not been seen
nce. This place was kind Of depot for sup
lying the rebels with subsistence. His slaves
aid he "took two guns made together Il a,
ouble.barreed shot gun) and another one, and
ad not been seen since. He had two smoke
ouses filled with hams, shoulders and bacon,
even barrels of sugar and several barrels of
lolasses, preserves and dried fruit The negroes
~ that every few days he takes load to the
uerrilla bands that are about here. The boys
card of it and In two hours there WAS nothing
1T in the smoke houses. Among the things
,ey took we're 100 hams, about 100 shoulders,
lot Of bacon, barrels of sugar, etc. Com,
laint was made at head quarters and guard
as sent to protect the property, but too late to
ave any of It. About ten who were still lin,
ering around were arrested and placed in the
uard house. Whatever will be the result ws
Oow not. We leave tomorrow morning .tl
clock. laws 80 -'i"-s HIM. RoRrRrs.