Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-02-06

} Gen. Scott. His first movement, afser the BATH
and collection Of the wounded, was to order ih
making OF several hundred hunks, or little boar
J bedsteads, about one foot high, with good bed
thus getting the boys eff from dirty floors. Ssn,
fary stores and good Samaritan nurses al
arriving by every days trains. Considering th'
great battle and the number Of the wounded
| their condition is unusually favorable. Yet
while this is true there have been cases of ex
treme suffering from neglect or inability to care
fer them, no doub'.
The country is pretty much deserted, except
by Old people and by old aad young negroes
The young men and the nlddie-Rved are v-ith The
armies, and mainly with the rebels The force
Of publle opinion and ths consedp.ion have
made pretty mush of a sweep, IS may well BE-
supposed. The old people gTieve in anguish
over this war
Tbs fence rails are now being hauled into
town for IRE wood from adjacent farms As [
write, q long train of foTaging teams IS iust
passing by, loaded with corn and hay, s6esf oats
and bundles of fedder being paced on top with
tour soldiers spraWling ever all to serve IS bind,
ers to the load. O.her wagons will carry q
dead pig OF strings Of fowls on the top, and
have noticed some very fine hogs thus carried
| the last fastening hog of some poor family, per
| haps have met with inFtanees of this ehar-
attsr 50 gross as to prove heart-sickening and
! where IS the remedy The officers ere strictly
euJoinedt to give foraging receipts in all cases
But little good can these do family whoss win
ter's food is being taken from their very crib and
meat house.
There is hsre mongrel crowd Of curious
| sight seekers. The bastle-felds are well plod-
/ ded over, ard vigorous search is kept uD for
mementoes. Newspaper writer's and ske.chars
| for the picsorisls arc here, or haze been, in fuI
force. Many q visitor comes upon 8 far more
/ sad snd mouTnful mission-to care for wound
ed relative OF friend or sesk the burial psee of
| The dead, To this class tha military au horilies
/ afford every possible facility. The body Of ths
laInented Lieuien Colonel Gareschs was bur
/ led upon the battle feld as near where be was
shot as within dstaaee Of FIVE hundred yards
| the spot being elevated, overlooking tho fields
and farm grounds, and much of tbe hsttls Geld
Of that eventful last day Of the yesr A day or
| two afterwards baTisl ea5s was procured from
Nashville by order cf General Rasee.auz, and
the body was raised and place3 therein en- sent
! to Nashville, and thence to Washington, D c.
The rebel cavalry are at their ED game Of an
noyance IN our rear, attacking our olg line Of
wsg0n trains beswesn here and EsshYille. and
burning steamers on the Cumberland As yet
they have succeeded poorly, have used mp per
hsps oae hundred wagons, and have burned
| one small steamer. Ths is small result as
the work Of their four thousand Of hard riding
horsemen. Tbs trains are esch strongly guarded
| ard the steamboats, are conveyed By gGnb0ats
The further re 90 from Nashville, our base, the
greater this iifieulty; but our gaaeral is eqsal
to the occasion. If this style Of warfare IS kept
up, ne will have to play the same gsmo, aud
this he disikes 30 do, for the Union army has
come to restore aud repress, and not to destroy
but if there is no other way left but TO fsbt
against wagon trains and railroad bridges, and
destroy public works, he can do so in their rear
as well as they can in ours, and sunoy them
Just as much. Oar troops can live or psrched
corn as well as can the rebels. can march as
fast, and 6ghs harder And, By securing the
country for stock, and mounting 5000 picked
infantry, Morgsn's Whasler's and Forests
rowing cavalry eau BE- dispersed and used up
IN sixty deys- If necessary, this wal be done
An unnecessary and most impolihc source
oFannoyanee TO the army and county is the
fuss now pending between The administration
and the Louisville and Nashville railroad com
pany respecting the carrying OF the mails, com
mencing January lst, while ons of the grsasast /
battles of the var was raging. By some dsa- (
gTeement as to price / believe, the railroad com /
psny have refused 10 carry the mails, and thou !
sands OF letters concerning the dead wounded |
and dying, sre piled up in wsysids post Off res, /
as also important official army correspondence /
Wherever the fault be, it is an outrage upon
the army, upon the people Of the whole country, I
and upon humanity. Oar latest letters and 4
papers by mail from st. Louis or Chicago are Of
December 2Sth-over two weeks Sueh I
stoppage should not have been permitted il /
these sad times, by either party, from mere pc
cunisry considerations If entirely the fault of {
the railroad company, the government would be /.
justified in seizing and raining it If the adj (
miaistratioa is guilty, It is but another Ink .
added to the chain OF miserable ineOmpetencY i
and inshiciency that is binding it hand aud foot +
Paut1va afd n orinrff hafo~a ind
ton
For sweek past our army Of the Cumberland /
hss been fling through this town, brigade or
division st time. What a stirring sight, glo- /
Tious sight, to see forty thousand men on the !
march-such men as comprise this army Yes
terday Gen Pameg's division, regiment after
regiment, swept down the street. their wide col
umns filing up the roadwsy, and tbe men pre-
sentiBg truly martial front Thon followed
the several batteries Of the division, the brass
and IRON cannoa, With their caSsOns, making
quite a procession Of themselves I noticed
particularly the days Of many Of the regiments /
which were fairly riddled with balls, and hung
in tatteFs, mouTnfal insignia of the battle-fads
upon which they had waved. These ole hags
are almost worshipsd by the men. This divis-
ion was upwards of a mile in length. thus
widely thrown ont, aud was fne army Of itself |
This army comprises thirteen such divisions ]
believe.
These divisions have gone out on ihe diffr I
euf pixies, southwaTd, to various localities and /
distances The forward march is rarely stimuli /
taae0us With them. We have divisions twelve I
and fifteen miles south. Each of these diyis. /
ion armies has its own general aud bis stsf
and all the sppendsges of artillery batteries and I
wagon trains. a monstrous great machine of 1
human flesh and animal life is such an army, /
moving about over the country like the myriad /
locust or army worm, dsvouring all before It /
Fences and euthouses, and in many instances /
habiiations, disappear before it. Cornfslds are /
stripped and tramped n a tgice, and families are
left destitute, in mid-winter, of live stock of I
every description. For many mile, in Ten /
nessee, to day, the produce and fences are gone,
and most of the people also and unless this war /
speedily ceases. this region of tho country will /
know neither seed time nor harvest.
The rebel cavalry squads are busy st their /
work of annoyance, rs above stated I have 1
Just learned that they have attacked our feet Of
boats, ct Harpeth shoals, and barned four Of |
them, two of which were laden with army stores (
and two were light The very heavy rains of /
three days past have made the Cumberland |
boom" raising thirteen feet wi.hia the past 7
twenty-four hours, and permitting boats TO run 1
at viii, and, in close convey Of the gUnboats
free from guerilla annoyance We soon viii /
have stores at Nashvilein great abundance and I
also ammunition, and oar solicitude ABOUT rail I
roads is ended General Rosecrsnz now has 80 /
look only to the font. and within forty days he /
will destroy Bragg army, or run it into Middle /
Alabama and Georgia, and hold it there, if not
follow it further, where It will soon exhaust
itself
As for guerilla business the rebels viii be
met on equal terms. II they destroy Roseerans'
bridges, he can and will tear up theirs Their
interior raiirosds are far more important to
fhnr7 than fhn~o fs7h HE for hn has cha
rivers and gunboats to supply him
agSr That tho Confederate Government COM
nitsed q great oversight in not having active
and trustworthy agents TO purchaGe cotton
while it could be hal at about one-third lAe
present prices, IS nov apparent we believe
agents ara now employed in the different States
to purchase It on the best terms they can, bat
We hear nothing as to she progress thoy arc