The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-29


tured yesterday at Drentiord. lipe miles in
tse rear Of FrankIip. eighi haudsea prisoners
with their arms and ammunition. destroying
= large house flied with conimissaEy siorss
burning the railroad bridges and te4ripg a.
The track between brentwood aud Nashville,
and bsinging away sevehtsen loaded wagons.
C. \ fErtzs8z. Maj !: Q ~.
rHE Qu uats rfsR IA sIER.s LAMEKr-
Hotses and wagons AID nuults barracks and 1s ,er.
kxes asd els and toos lire and niEser- and ress
fyAlr and hfseehes aai shoes. have b. bl.l.ksts
! And hats.
SsiE sad ion aaa sqree-. ou,oous and bfidse. sna
Fae mi kettles and pisk eurelors paper and ink.
III the Aostraet N ling looks blank saa my ban
j. tn5 dizzy - think
III there be end 70 this eTeras Ing fssur
Will the lime come wh-n the t;en1 ucus.i- Il
u ssne day y''u rteai aHay. IN solitude - -tay.
Where ihe horses drsw % frage and the ,rcers no
pay
Hilton Hilton N Z. Is lie a bird or a buz
zlrd I'm n poor carcass Of q Qnarterinaster
lean and lantern =jawed- pretty nigh dead with
service. y cary and worn; and Hilton has
come To torment me before my time " ouid
he pick MY boles before l am cold Does he
va % me branded. like worn out army horse
with the letter rCt"H Where did Mr. Hilton
6y irom when lie lii upon that light house Al
Richmond never heard u hun until read
bis wholesale bill of indictment against Quar-
ierrnasters aud Comniissaries. lie must be
from Arkausaw. reckon. or some other part
unknown Ny daddy sold goods on credit
about 20 years ago, and when a customer run
away he used 70 codisil his name with &c 4.
A.. gone 10 Arkansaw- What power Of
dead heads must have roasted IN them woods
on the other side OF Jordan. II Hilton. NJ c
did fy from thpse parts. IN wager dead
horse that he got a powerful vote IRON that
class who figured on my old daddys books
If Il bad ei,rn for iIlan 10 be Isifchiu' into
class Of people. an calling the whole Of EN-
thieves aud swindIers, just because he's heard
of Iasca! or tTo among en-; might just as
well call the whole Congress \ fool because
they've got a fool among en- Monsieur Hi
ton 81 e.. wants Us Al removed iron Office.
and pnt in the ranks aud our places supplied
with civilians who are over age aud under
sike and physically unable to DO field services
wants passel tf sicily tallow-faced gentle 1
IneI. who've got the gout, the blind piles.
or The sore back, or tie belchin' dysfepsr. OF
the grnbbs, OF the Chinese diarrhea, or the iiz
slionlder or the painters cholic, Or the bot-r.
or the string halt CT the sway-back aud AL
thar solt Of thing
Here we've vorkei day and night. in the |
-
pressin and being pressed, scolding and be-
iiIg scolded, paying out and paying IN, hunt
ing horses, hunting niggars. hunting forage |
aud wagons, and harness, and beef aud bacon. i
and -four. and supplies; run almost 10 death |
under the responsibility Of keeping our cor
ner up. feeling all the time ike . poor galley
slave. and yet no word OF approval; 10 look ofI
reward; no vote Of thanks; ID brief editorial
from tue press; no small scrap Of praise from
p ~. A" or -NImporte," or -Personne, or
any army correspondent
The fact is. Mr. Hilton, M C. and Company
have set the dogs on us It's good Buncombe |
10 have scape goati Er- Buucombe can go i
home and say didn't give them Qnarfer1nas-i
fer< and Conlmissaries ffsfr Il saved me
government several millions Of dollars Wen.
its very strange that All the rascals managed
10 git into these departments Heap OF .hem /
I knew before the war, who were considered I
gentlemen and honest, have somehow or oihs
been sHorn. chosen. aud sell cted. by somebody \
as III and proper persons for disbursing on /
GERS. But Hilton and Co. are afier'em. and
Congress have sorter compromised the fuss by /
increasin our bonds q ffty thousand dollars
lNhal a hnmbugl What .'5r,dsa fiitasn. Il
as the teller said which m dog latin they say
siguiies L0okish bT1lfe Don't they know
that quarter Of million passes through ny
hands IN a year. What's the bond worth If / i
am going INTO regular steain business, III
would be plagued sight more sensible il they
Had abolished al the bonds. anu put a, rrsn
fairly and sqnarely upon his hsnor; and If he
violhted his honor or stole dollar difecily or
why let his General hang him up at
the cross roads where the army could see him v
aud let him hang there high and dry in the
cold and the wef. IN the wind and the rasn
until his 6ezbS dried ur and his shirt-isi wore
out f4lpjn in the pitfiIess storm.
That's tie way old Bonyparte done en- and