The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-06-27

irons. The army of Tennessee has also
been largely reinforced recently by the re-
moval of troops from Mobile and other
places to that point.
In reference to the treatment of prison.
ers by the rebels, this writer says there is a
general disposition to heap contempt and
eontumely upon ali who fall into their
hands. Indeed, he adds, "if the counsels
Oh some IN high places could have prevail
Gu, put lew prisoners would have been ia
Ken by the Southern armyp' He continues:
Will cite one instance in proof The
gay before the battle of Stone River, Gen.
era, FOLK rode along the lines Of his corps,
ADDRESSING the regiments in person. In his
speech to the regiment to which belonged
n .e sMd: II you find any trouble in taking
ele VI prisoners, and wsSh to dispose of
m ne M any other VGy, I aoiU not scoM uour
rus, 700, from the lips of q Christian bish-
op! minister of the gospel of peace! While
sVnae were disposed to cheer the remark,
Cn I exclaimed with establishment.
VINO would have thought that of General
foik! rms heard, and Ishall never for
get the chill OF horror that passed through
my veins when it was uttered, 1t had its
erect Oh some brutal minds. for I have
heard more than one, since that battle,
BOAST OF having dispatched scoanded yam,
KEGS, Wv
eff JEFF. Davis can pass sentence of de.tb
on Northern General, and order his eye
cution If captured, ought not President in
coin to pass a like sentence on the mons
| Bishop of Louisiana?
I'm March last I saw at Chattanooga
some twelve hundred prisoners who were
| captured by Van Dorm near Franklin, Ten
neSSee. They had all been deprived of their
overcoats, blankets and knapsacks, by Or
der OF General Bragg, and when saw them
| they had been two days and one night
| crowded in miserable box cars, with moth
ing to eat! A major came up to me with a
pencil in his hand, which he wished me to
purchase, stating that he had no money
that he conld use, and he was perishing
| for something to eat. (There were num-
pies tosell at fifty cents apiece.) gave
him fifty dollars for his pencil, taking care
to do it secretly. and told him to distribute
among his friends, and then went to
! he Commander of the Post, and hurried
him up with his rations. I wish I could
say this was an isolated case of cruel treat
ment of prisoners, but, so far as my obser-
walton goes, it accords with the general
practice.
"One other fact will mention here which
was told me by the Quartermaster who bu-
RED the dead of Murfreesboro'. Those who
were killed in the battle, and all who died
OF their wounds in town before the army
tell back, We're stripped of all their cloth
lng-oftlcers and men-and buried entirely
needed clothing"
| Upon another point this writer supplies
Information which has long been desired,
but never before satisfactorily given, 1t
has always been believed by very many of
our people that had Gen. Halleck marched
his army upon Corinth immediately after
the battle of Shiloh, Beauregard and his
forces would have been inevitably destroy
ed. This belief is strikingly confirmed by
the disclosures which this Captain under
bragg makes in one of his series of articles
We give his story on this point entire:
My regiment reached Corinth, Missis-
slppl, about one week after the battle Of
Shiloh, and the six or seven weeks which
| elapsed between that time and Beaure-
gard's famous retreat will long be remem-
bered by that portion of the army as one of
the most remarkable passages in the histo-
| ry of the war.
sit was in the months of April and Nav,
the rainy season, andFowing to the peculiar
nature OF the soil, the mud was intolerable.
The soldier had not where to lay his head,
except in mud-no plank-no straw. The
| ton that could be commanded on the Mo-
bile and Ohio, and Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad, was employed in taking the
SICK to interior hospitals, and every availa-
BILE shelter in Corinth was filled with those
who could not be sent off. If Beauregards
army was not completely whipped at Shi-
| lob. the work was certainly completed at
Corinth, or at least it would have been very
easily, for there never was seen more dis
plrlted and disorganized mob-it could not
be called an army-than the one then wal
lowing in the mud before Halleck.
Had the latter marched directly on Cor
| NTH with any considerable force, instead
Of waiting to approach by parallels, the
Army OF the Mississippi as it was then
Beauregard knew this, but he knew also
the manner of the enemy approach; hence
| he waited that the roads might get better,
until he saw the wary Halleck was ready
to make the attack, and having made every
preparation himself for that event, he sue
ceeded most admirably in taking his men
| out Of the way.
1.-THE sufferings endured on the retreat of
fifty miles will never be read in history
The Quartermaster's train had started two
days in advance of the troops with six days
| rations, leaving the army with two days
ratiOns in their haversacks. And whoever
caught up with the Quarteemaster's train
on a retreat that had two days the start?-
The retreat was not made TO Tupelo all at
at Baldwin, thirty miles from Corinth, and
again at Saltillo, ten miles further on. We
were constantly expecting Halleck's army
upon us; but we neither saw nor heard Of
them, except an occasional cavalry Skin
mish far in the rear.
Col. MOntgomery's Late Raid.
BEAUFORT, s. c., June IS, 1S63.-The
steamer Ben before, Capt. Hallet, three
days from New York, arrived at Port Roy
al on the evening of the 18th bringing as
passengers Brig. General Gilmore, the
commander of the Department of the
South, Brig. Gen. Strong, Col. Turner, and
a number of officers.
Gen. Gilmore is already well known in
the Department as Chief Engineer on Gen.
Sherman's staff; as the officer who had
charge of the brilliantsiege of Fort Pulaski,
and as the hero of Somerset, Kentucky
His presence would seem to indicate more
active operations.
THE LATE RAID ON THE CoMBAHEE RIVER.
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