The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1863-09-12
An Kn4r,Ortasat Letter.
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i Below we give q letter picked up |,
the streets of Brandon, Mias.. by Captaii
Dennis, of the I'D Ohio. We have th
original IN our possession. 1t - writer
in unusual fair penmanship, and, as th
readezsw viii go, IN good style Of eon1pesii
tion, It's writer 10 evidently anofnSeiii
/ gent man, and in . position 10 speak cor
4 rectiy OF that whereof he writes.
The letter Il % fualosgs Z y ssf
/ AsSsefzna 'sBrandon, july 10, 1855. =
II wrote 10 you very hurridIy ysassr
day, and this morning learn that Genera
Johnston has ordered this army TO bs
marched across to Enterprise, 100 miles
| further 1T will take q week longer
No provision has been made along the
route, and the men are already much
dissatisfied with the vaciliating policy and
| hollow promises by which they have
been dupef so long. Of the 10000 pa.
rolled at Vicksburg, only one-haf are
now togeth er, and ERE we reach Enter
prise, this number viii be reduced to. S..
00O--they, of the Georgia, Alabama and
Tennessee troops, who, also, will leave
with or without furloughs so soon as they
learn the alternative of going into camp
of parole. The Army Of the Mississippi
is completely lost. ..... r. 49,
Meantime, General Johnston holds
Jackson-we hear the guns constantly.
The enemy are making gradually ap-
proaches, and after week longer will
have that place. With it falls Mobile.
This entire section is fleeing eastward
Georgia will have population of 5,00O,-
to feed this year. Ruin, utter and entire
ruin, has swept over this State. The ne
gro emancipation policy, at which we. so
long hooted, is the most potent lever of
our overthrow. 1t steals upon as una
wares, and ere we can do anything the
plantations are deserted, families with
out servants, camps without necessary at
tendants, women and children in want
and misery. In short, the disadvanta-
ges to us now, arising from the negroes,
are ten-fold greater than have been ali
the advantages derived from them earlier
in the war. .-.<.
1T is useless to discuss the errors of
the. past-possibly there are none that
could have been avoided-but certainly
zee are defeated and roti1aed people-shorn
of our strength--powerless for a success
full solution of the problem undertaken /;
or rather ours was erroneous. The solu-
ton has been shown US by more favor
ed people.
Il have been ataying with my friend
Manlove who bought a residence here
some time ago, and moved his family
from Vicksburg Mrs. NJ is to start with
her children and the only two servants
left her, for Mobile, to-day-thench she
goes farther east with party from jack
sOn-none know where. EVERYTHING, save
articles absolutely necessary, is sacrific-
ed. and Manlove, from great wealth, has
sunk to poverty. His case is type of
all
"Provisians cannot be bought here at
my price. The enemy fed our army. for
ten davs-gave them FIVE days rations of
everything Including coffee and tea, to
make this march upon. Now the men
are going about with empty haVersaoks
living on green corn and fruit. No
eommissary stores have been provided
for them by General Johnston. The fact
is, that the greatest mismanagement and
most ruinous neglect has been the re-
ward, so far, or this army. Such confu-
sion and dissatisfaction as is now present
ed here, was never before witnessed, and
unless the troops are moved out of town
to-day. the citizens of Brandon will have
more cause to rue the advent of the Clio
rious Army of Vicksburg,' than they have
had to fear the approach of The vandal
hordes of Northern barbarisfn.'
IF leave of absence is refused us, or
limited to thirty days, l may not be able
TO get to you until ordered into Georgia
Thirty days is no leave at all.
''Atfectionately, E."