Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1863-01-28
FROM WINSTON COUNTY

FROAt WINSTON COUNTY.
Louisville Winston Co, hiss, !
ian, 5th 1868, {
EDITOR OF THE Macon BEACON:
DEAR SIR I send you for ppblica
ion a resolution passed dnanimuosly.
BY the loard Of Police Of Winston
County, at tie January term, 1863
thereof, expr sing the thanks of that
body to Col Nimms. Hon. ]. N. L
Smith # Ioi ,Aes Co and Il P. Dawes
Of Noxubee Co, for contributions Of
corn for tbo needy families of volun,
tcers in Winston county.
Col. Mimms and Mr.. Smith have
each. give fifty bushels Of corn, and
Mr. Dave has authorized, by letter,
The Presid ut of the Board of Police Of
tins county to send and obtain fUc
hundred bushels | ! have also learn.
ed that Mr.. Dawes, has made ike dos
nation to ii. needy families Of yolun.
teer' in Ne'hoba county,
Such ae ,of noble and praiseworthy
munifccnco are deserving Of pubic
mention. and slSuli, as they undoubt
edly will, command the public graft
,ule.
The great conflicts and "blood-stained
fields are not all that will be histori
cal in this mighty struggle for liberty
and Independence. These will find a
place in tie volumes, that shall record
the skill Of commanders and the valor
of Troops
There will be an unwriten history of
this unparalleled war, that will eonsti
tutc the f,esidc history of the times,
whose traditions, will recte Il e py1ra
tions, as well as the he,0jsm Of the
common o}dier j. in these rehersals,
such names as Smith, Mimms, and
Dawes, vbo have helped to feed the nee.
dy aud suffering women and children
at home, while the fathers and sons
were bearing their breasts to the enc.
my's bullets in distant battle fields,
will contrast grandly aud proudly with
that yipcrouS class of Shylocks and
speculaIors who have vruug by means
ofcxtortonstc prices, from The soldiers
wives and little ones the poor pittaOco
Of his monthly pay
Mr. Editor, out ola voting poPuh.
tion Of rot quite twelve hundred, Win.
.ton county has at least one thousand
soldiers in the field most OF whom
enlisted as volunteers, early in thi,
war and have helped to illustrate the
proves OF Nississippi's sons in almost
every contest, where the enemy la.
been met in this war, side by side
with the heroes of Noxubee, their stout
arms shd brave hearts, have helped tl
drive back the vandal foe, from every
field where Southern arms have gaincC
victory many of hem have endured
the rigorous cold, in high notbern lati
tudes, in the prisons and bastiles 0
Camp Douglas and Chase. Scores O
them have sickened and died in eamT
and hospitals as well as have fallen il
the deadly strife, but when they have
fallen in the field of fcarnage, it has a!
ways been with their facs to the foe.
Many, very many of these have left
families in utter deStatutl0n There
are many soldiers families in Winston
county to Gay, who have not one bush.
e. of corn where with to bread their
! buagry little oaeS. Tho soil, at
best, is thirsty and unproductiye; and
during the growing season Of last year,
it scarcely rained enough in some parts
Of this county, to vegetate even a grain
of corn. There are broad fields cfhun-
dreds of acres that have not made one
ear of corn. Can it then be a matter Of
surprise that there is want and suffering
there Shall the widows wall and or
phans' cry appeal in vain to those who
cultivate rich lands, and whom Provl-
depee has favored with more propitious
seasons? Winston county, IN times
past. has expended largely of its means
in purchasing com from the planters of
Noxubee and Lowndes counties Thou
sands of dollars have, this season. been
paid there for corn by the people of
Winston county. In times to come,
Noxubee and Lowndes will be the
Egypt from which grain supplies will
be drawn, to supply the wants Of the
destitute people Of Winston,
Let the example of these gentlemen,
whose uames We have taken the liberty