The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-07-16
Fare in Dixie.


ter from Coorp G. W. Mitchell, of Go. F,
A, 9th Iowa, who was wounde6 at the
capture of jackson, Miss, and was taken
prisoner in the hospital when the rebels
repossessed that city:
U, GENERAL HosP1rAL, ANNAPoL,s, ND,
June 27th, 1913.
My Dear Wye:-l will now give you
a detailed account of my journey through
the land Of Dixie, among the barbarous
rebel women and the heather rebel pop
ulace that inhabit the region Of country
between Jackson, Miss. and the far fam
ed rebel city of Richmond, Va. | was
on one leg, while on the other was very
troublesome pct, which, soon after start
ing became so much inflamed that by
night, and the most of the time alter
ward, it looked to be in state OF NORTH
cation, aud was SO sore that to move was
very painful The rest of the prisoners,
about forty in all, were as bad as myself,
and some great deal worse.
On the morning of June I'd the Pro-
vost Marshal of Jackson, with eight
guards with fixed bayonets, came into the
hospital and ordered all those that could
get along with crutches, to 60 iuto the
hall with all their baggage. After they
! had got US huddled together in the ball
they searched our persous and baggage
thoroughly, taking all our money, pocket
books, knives, tobacco, pipes, clothes not
on our backs, rubber blan kets, havcrsacks,
! canteens, watches, kuapsacks and every
thing but one woo!en blanket. They
then drove US into the court yard and
placed guards around US, whore we had
to wait 10 the hot sun for three hours for
Wagons to convey US to the cars, i've
miles distant When they came they
were the poorest kind Of worn out army
wagons, into which we were soon hustled,
as thick as we could be crowded; and
while being piled in We were treated, 10y
Lieut.. Spra-ue Of the 2S'h Louisiana
regt, to the following epithcts: "Pile
in there, you id crippled Abolition
ists." "Bayonet the ID Lincoln dogs
if they don't give room!"' and other ex-
pressioos that aro not fit to write for ears
polite just before our arrival at the
cars we passed through Brecki' ridges
brigade, and of all the epithets, curses
and threats in the rebel vocabulary, they
chose the meanest and heaped them up
on US. threw as much Yankee black
guardsm back at them as l could think
of, and tainted them about their run
ming qualities not q little. On our arri-
val at the cars We were crowded into old
box cars that they had just taken lot Of
horses from, where we remained all night
without water to drink or dress our
wounds with. Our wounds were SO
painful and We were so crowded that we
could not sleep, SO We sat and growled all
night BY morning we arrived at Me.
ridiau, where We changed cars for Nc
Donald's Landing, on the Tombigbee
river At Meridian they kept us hob
bling about in the sun for two hours, then
! piled US into an old filthy box car that
would not have put horse into without
its being cleaned out. When we go,
within about mile eff McDonald's Land
ing the train stopped, and We were ord
cred to walk to the Landing; and of al
) ths marching you ever saw our crippled
: brigade beat it. |, with crutch anc
, cane and one leg to get along with; my
chum, Billy Cooling, with nurse on on
side, a cane on the other and a leg in tb'
middle; some had to be carried betwee,
two nurses, others hoped along on on
leg and pole; We were hard looking
sight. Here We had to leave what Iittl
provisions We had, az it took all tn
nurses to help the cripples along, and tn
Lieut.. would not allow his guards t
take it to the Landing. After we got OIL
!, board the dirty little steamer Marinc
we got water to dress our wounds TO
y the first time since leaving Jackson. O.
e our arrival at Demopolis, Ala the
marched US out on the sidewalk 10 from
= of the Demopois Hotel, where they KEEP
US to be gazed on and hooted at by tn
young rebels and creatures calling them
selves ladies'. We lay on the sidewal
=. for two hours. receiving the meanest in
Ia suits from the boys and female rebels c
d d the town. BY this time we began
af N want food, as we had eaten nothing sine
morning. and then but one hard tack -
We were shut up for that night in DO
car, aud the next mor"ing 1t was hitche
4 to the train for Selma. Arrived at Sc
~ ~ ma on the Alabama river, we found abor
L. half dozen light spring wagons draw
up close to the cars ready to take us
the landing. We soon found that "
- were under the protection of as mob
and kind hearted gentleman as one wou1
% wish to find, the Provost Marshal of Sc
ma. l am sorry that cannot recolIe
his name, but shall always rememb
his kindness to US with gratitude. Al
'e, on tor getting on board the steamer FIJI
we received three Gays half rations of hal
tack and fat bacon. and as we had eatt
Ids nothing since the morning Of the d.
"' before the way We made raw fat hac'
- and hard tack disappear, for half an hou
- was caution to timid commissaries.
We The next morning we arrived at Nor