The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-18
.orrespondeneo ol the Chaltanooea Eobel.

Correspondence o. tue CbdltabOOet "enel'
Iv CavF NEAR ylcEsHUnG, MISS
Feb. ~, 1863
rain storm 10 this country ~ no ordinary matter
No little occurrence to pass away IN holr. Let me
attempt description OF one we bal here last week
An week before last had been wet ana showery, and
Saturday night Il began In earnest-5egan to pour
down like an old fashioned mill tail, and continued L
pour down in this manner. until Sunday evening
when subsded into q steady going rain such as tb
farmers term a growing laiui and this continued
without intermssion, until Wednesday night The
.oi here Is Of a sot sandy nature and being already
died with water, The whJle country wasSpon flooded
and the creeks already swollen were aood Thrown out
Of heir banks, Splash, slash, splash, dash, water
and mud, mad aud water, on the bigh way and IN the
by way, on picket and in camp every where mud ane
water clothes wet, tents wet and tho fog so heavy
that one ca1 scarcely how To avoid the numerous
ponds and bayous Such Isl Mississippi rain storm
And could bat admie that noblest qaality OF sol
der endurance as displAyed by our soldiers daring
thisteriible rain. saw regiment alter regiment
wade waste Goep ia water, for nearly hall mLe !"
get 10 their pJst on P'rie' ANtv, Hgd then stanc
iiftnud and water and the rain pouring wn Oh
them for two days every tlIs wet ipL Glppihg' n''
fire and NOT great quantity OF the poorest Prov
eons 20 eat aud yet no man murm ired. Truly euch
men can never be conquered, How our ne,gabors
the Doodlc in the low lands acrcs the rRer where
man can scarcely get about for mud and water, aeI
even an ordinary rain, stood this secopd edition Of
Noah food is matter entirely beyond my compre-
hension; but % we can still occasionally hear q drum
over there s6ppole that at least some OF them were
not drowned. There was no doubt many wistul
eve tarncd toward the glorious hills Of Yieksourg,
where the water could not stauu iong enough to get
above shoe mouth The water washed the reads so
as to cut of our Communication with the rest of the
world few Ave or six days but events ia oar Ownro
ron killed the for u.s. The telegraph has already
carried you tho glorious news of the capture Of The
Queen OF the West; an5 ere this reaches yoa, it VIII
have conveyed the intelligence Of the capture Of the
Ihdanola, by the Webb, aud the Qeen OF the West.
The Queen Of the W ts said 70 be very powerlul
qmapd one Of the best In iectp the Yankee ee elss
they never would have sent ler by our battere1 The
Indapola ia splendid new Ironclad. I have not
aned tho number and size Of her guns, but she Is
sal to be very fine crat, aud the state rooms for
officers are NJ places for the dwellings OF Nabobs
hirnihcd With everything that could afford comfort
or luxury. She was not much injured Ia the fight
aud win 30 ready In few days to show her old owners
that the Rebels have not only learned not to fear
gln boats, but a know how % Use them. It may
le interesting to your readers to know that it was
TenuGscsans who are entitled. in great part at least
70 the credit due this briant action The Queen Of
tlo wostand Webb, we're partly mannedby two com.
panics Of Ccl. Brad0rd's slst Tennessee regiment
Capt. Carnes company frcm Blount county, was on
board The Queen Of the West and had two men
killed, and three wounded. These we're all the cagu.
alties that Ihave heard from our side. The Indi
anola's crew consisted Of hundred and twenty five
men, three OF whom we're killed. the rest were taken
prisoners
Our affairs are Frightening here as they are every
where. We now have five gunhoats between here
and Port Hudson which win again give US communi
cation between the two points, and supplies from the
rich river region II the leaders Of this third "On To-
Vioksburgp will only continue TO send boat down
the river occasionally we win soon be able to attack
them on the water for it IS much sier lie boat.
from them than 10 build them. Besides we are pret.
tymuch IN the same ix about gun boats aud ships
that VIC were IN about guns when the war begun
have few and little means Of manulrctunng moro,-
But we we're compelled to have guns, md we tool
from tho YanlSs ~ mluY az we needed. And we can
and ought to take as many gunbo.ts as we hpel-
They have them and don't know how to use them |
We need them and do know how 70 uge them. II
pedict that our little feet will be heard from The
art sensation from old granny Rumor and It seems g.
begenerRly credited, is, that the YanNa are cutting
q canal lFOm the Mississippi 10 Like Providence |
which believe connects with the Tonsas ycr, aid
that runs iato the Rod river which again runs
into the Nj ssippi The fact Is they aredotermin-
cd TO have caual The North always was great 70,
internal improvements But theyhud hh.rd TO i'm
prove iBe Mississippi They cannot remove the OBJ.
sqotious that block up the river At YieksburG eud
TIE stubborn old river will not tun through thct nice
new canal cisdne acroas the bend, no'wlthiiantinp
that Il s CLEARLY 70 be seen 81 ttswage,s would thu,
be carried ON bya route fall twelve miles shorier'
so they have deiermin 70 make another and bette,
canal and ss The lakai, the uroeks, the hayouscnd
the little rivers back into tie groat river asain
Wen, isto be- hoped that they will succeed got
ting an their gunboals and tganeports Into cee Of
those little rivers. Our folks would thHs get gan.
heats enoushto open tho sIlaal ippi from ita mouth
tos source Three OF four bundled exchanged pris |
onoh came in to day from New Orlaans, where tht |
ladies had dre I'd them out IN nice new cothesi and
II was amusing to witness the seueaton a. created
Among orr ragged kows a dog aght,or an lta.;
lun with an organ and monkey. would not have
creOtod half as much excitement, nor would gunboai
Fight on the river have attracted much more atisn- \
ton. pIaioe lricaaA where did you get them
good clothesG Does moh bre.ebci AZ them grow on
the bushes over where SOW have been know you
atmpgar. but don't know them clothes Soy now
tell us, wherp did you gci 'eu The women gave
ihomto yoag Well, Goa bless thh women, they ere
gold oyory land and country, a hundred sach
expressions were handled back and forth aa the soi
aIen IN new CLOTHES passed on. OnsERvM =