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

AOlllNlEEttClGS
busily employed in the culinary depart
ment, preparing most appetizing feasts
for these all but gouty visitors Never
wSs there such sale of wares in one
day in Fredericktown as was there the
Thursday and Friday these peaceful
wanderers made their appearance The
most fabulous prices were readily given
for everything, which was as readily
taken. Parties, some of them good
Union men, sold their best horses and
mnies at prices ranging from S75 to
$3.50 each. Barbacues, where herds Of
cattle and droves Of sheep were greedily
devoured, stated the appetite of the gal
liant Southrons. A great day WAS FRI
day, the 24th inst, for the good people
OF naGlSon UOuntS. IHe IKE vi II Its1o
never been seen before-will the like Of
it ever be seen again2
As Marmaduke promised, almost
everything taken in Frederiektown was
paid for. He wanted to disabuse the
minds of the people of Missouri, who
had, from their contact with the Yam
KEGS, formed the erroneous opinion that
the Confederacies would steal and plum
der Marmaduke brought no specie with
him, as his movements were to be made
rapidly, and he would be unencumbered.
He brought, however, paper, not medi-
Gated paper, but genuine Confederate
paper, unlike the trashy stuff displayed
in the windows of pawnbrokers in ST
Louis. The generous people of Madison
County were so glad to see the redeemer
of their State that they objected to TAX
ing the money, but as Marmaduke in
sisted, they took it-they have it to this
day; not a cent of it has been spent
Saturday, the 25th inst, Marmaduke
took up his march in the direction Of
jackson and Cape Girardeau. Asmuch
as the people of Fredericktown regretted
to see him leave, his business was such
that 60 he must, and he went. He
camped at Patton, Bollinger county,
Saturday night.
General Vandevcr, who in forty-eight
hours had made forced march Of over
one hundred miles to relieve the garri-
son at Pilot Knob, which place he reached
Thursday evening the 23d, started in pur-
suit of Marmaduke on Saturday the 25th
inst, at one o'clock, P. NJ Had General
Vaudever been unemhana assed by head
quarters, Marmaduhe would have been
attacked at Fredericktown.
On Friday the instructions which pre-
vented him from moving, and which at
the time were thought to have been in
iudicious, prove to have been eminently
proper. Had Gen. Yandever attacked
Marnladuke at Fredericktown the latter
would not have made the attack on Care
Girardeau viii oh Atta-l - i Ii
.osuItod in q total decentralization, if not
capture, of his entire force.
Along the line of the road to Fred
ericktown everything was undisturbed
until within three miles of the town,
where it was found that squad Of Con-
federates had run against telegraph
pole and knocked it down. Itmust have
been dark when the chivalry moved over
this road, as every third post along the
line had been pushed over, and in order
to keep from becoming entangled in the
wire it mad been cut and thrown to one
side of the road.
A portion of General Vandevers COM
mand advanced into Fredericktown
Saturday night, from whence the follow
ing morning Sunday the pursuit was
continued
Along the road to Patton, some thirty
or forty weary stragglers were brought in
by the fauking parties and scouts. When
interrogated as to what they were doing
in the woods, they invariably replied that
they were lust hunting the cows. 7"
One Confeieracy, not so cowardly as the
rest, informed the General that he was
hunting FOR his horses.
Recruits for the rebel army were OBJ
tanned, willing or unwilling, wherever
they were to be found. Daviss procla-
nation extends, you know, over Mis-
souri,, and every able-bodied man in the
country traversed by Marmaduke was
compelled to go with him. Men were
taken from the field, and without a mo-
ment's warning hurried off to assist in
redeeming the State from q cruel
thraldom. Not less than three hundred
recruits were obtained in this way Even
portions Of the enrolled militia, which
Marmaduke does not recognize, were
compelled to go with him.
There is probably no one section ofthe
State so rich in all that makes people
great and independent, as portions of tho
With all their provisions carried away,
scarcely horse to be found, and the
cattle all driven off; no inhabitants ex-
cept dependent children and elpless
women, it cannot be expected but thai
the most intense destitution will prevail
Even if the men were at home, they
would be unable to make a crop, having
no horses or cattle. One old man from
whom these wholesale dealers had taken
all his horses and cattle, besought gal
liant Confederacy to leave him couple
of oxen with which to plow. The Con
federacy, who doubtless had been raised
on milk, was much moved, and ordered
one of his men to leave him TWO cows
which he said would answer a double
purpose-milking and blowing.
All the Confederacies, he and she
are not married. In Southeast Missouri
there are number of women of doubt
full loyalty, and one of these is, as she
calls herself, Miss Susie Snow. Gen
Vandever has an aid-de-camp who in his
way is quite wag, and who on the route
assumed to himself the important duty
Of questioning the captives and captlva
ting. Three miles east of Patton, Gen
eral VandeyerS command halted at the
farm of Sus;e's father to take dinner
A portion Of Msrmadukes command re
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