The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-05-04

DrGgoonSF Flight Of the Confedera-
cieS--Gen Fanderer and Mcneil in
Hot Pursuit Of the Retreating Rebels
Interesting Particulars aud Incl
dents rf
Correspondence Of the Missouri Denocrat.l
CAPE GIRARDEAu, Apfil 26.-Bloated
with his success at Patterson, Marina
duke and his hungry horde of Con-
federacies, mounted on hera-- mes
With pistols aud shot-guns attached, and
accompanied By rihed cannon (rihed
from the Government), proceeded on his
march to redeem "a mobiles from a
cruel thraldom, and to open up a mighty
empire to the South As Marmaduke
well said in his address to the Confeder-
acies, "You are about entering upon an
arduous expedition"
Marmaduke's command is composed
of four brigades, as follows: Gen. John
Shelby commands the first, Jack Bur-
bridge the second, Col Green the third,
and a brigade of Texas Rangers, who
are not commanded by any one, but go
it loose. The Texas brigade has four
brass pieces of cannon, two of them ri
fed; Green has two 2-pounder rifed
pieces, and Shelby three ri1ed steel Par
rot guns and two smooth-bore 6-pounders
making in all ten pieces of artillery.
The entire force is commanded by Mar
maduke. He has eighteen six xmule
teams loaded with ammunition.
The expedition left Powhattan, Ar
kansas, on Black River, April 18th, and
was started with the ostensible purpose
of occupying Pilot Knob and Cape Gil
rardeau as base of operations for the
projected mammoth expedition which
the Confederacies aver is to be made
by Price this summer Not to pillage
and destroy the substance of friends, but
to establish peace, liberty and happiness,
among the people of this State, is the
unlimited and peaceful expedition which
the radiant genius of Marmaduke had
given out to be the purpose Of visiting
his friends in Missouri The following
address, worthy of Price in his most ex-
uberant mood, was promulgated about
the time Of the advance into this State.
HEADQUARTERS MARNADUKE's DIVISION,
In THE FIELD, April Is, 1868.
SOLDIERS: You are about entering
upon an arduous expedition against the
enemy. Whether the expedition will be
uccessful-whether the result will re-
bound to YOUR glory or your shame, will
depend much upon yourselves. Other
commands of like character with this,
in other portions of the Confederacv,
with no more favorable auspices than
brighten above US, have achieved results
honorable to themselves and beneficial
to their country. The same chivalrous
daring, steady discipline, and alacrity in
the performance OF duty, will produce
the same results now as then
You go, soldiers, to aid in redeeming
noble State from cruel thraldom you 60
to fight the enemies of your country, and
not to pillage and destroy the substance
of your friends; you 60 to establish
peace, liberty and happiness among a
people kindred in blood, and similar in
sentiment, and not to make a waste and
desert of an alien State; you go as
friends among friends-or your noblest
efforts will fail of your purpose, and your
brightest victories will lose much of their
renown.
"You fight, soldiers, for a common
cause and for common object. Ban
ish, then, from your midst every lard
feeling engendered of State pride, and
know no rivalry save that of generous
emulation in the discharge of our duties
as the soldiers of the Confederacy, and
the pioneers who go before to open up a
mighty empire to the South.
"Texans, Arkansans, and Missouri
ans! l have confidence in your devotion
to your country, in your gallantry upon
the field in your observance of disci
pline, in your obedience to orders, ant
in your ability to overcome the foe l
therefore, propose to lead you where
your enemy hold lordly sway over aged
men, and women and children. L pro
pose to open a wide field for your exer
ton, to give you every opportunity tc
fight and destroy your common enemy
and the result am content to leave tC
God and you.
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