The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-05-20
Details Of the Great Raid In
. Central Mississippi.
ACCOUNTS FROM REBEL PAPERS.

miles into the State. They cleaned up this
country generally as they passed, aiming
to capture Houston, the county.seat Of
Chickasaw county. Miss, and the treasury
of the same with $4,000 in funds, includ-
ing $1,000 in gold Tho Mobile Tribune
gives an account of the raid which tho tel
egraph has in vain been attempting TO OK
plain;
Reports were brought to Okolona on
Sunday, the 18th inst, that the Yankees
were approaching by way of Pontotoc, said
to be 200 strong all picket cavalry. Col
oneIs Barlow and lnge had a skirmish with
them ON Saturday afternoon, not far from
Chesterville and Birmingham, and checked
them immediately, posting a courier to
Okolona for reinforcements. stating that
he Colonel Bartow) would hold them in
check until help came His loss in the
fight was said to be thirty-one killed,
wounded and missing. 1t is said the mill
tia behaved very badly They broke and
ran after the second fire, leaving Barlow
and lngc to bear the brunt.
On Tuesday, another party of Federals-
about 400--came suddenly on OEolona
They came in between Bartow's command
and tho I'd Alabama Cavalry, who were out
west of 0kolona hunting for them The
boys had passed through ghOkolona on Monday
but were poorly armed. Nearly all had
sabors, and their pistols and shotguns were
SO divided that nearly every man had some
thing to shoot with. They numbered 900
mon, but not more than 450 could GO out
after tho Yankees. Our men also had q
battery eight miles east of Okoona, but for
lack of horses could not move it with the
cavalry. On Monday the Yankees arrived
in Houston, Chickasaw county, and cap
tured the treasury $4,000, among which
was said to be $4,000 in gold
These captured and paroled number of
cti2ons who come under our conscript laws.
This they have done all tho way down.
They destroyed all the records of the county
and their depredations were conducted in
: their usual brutal manner While at Oko-
Iona they captured u MIR. Smith, who is
section-master on the Mobile and Ohio
: Railroad, and German named Charley, who
attends the tank. They threatened to burn
the depot house and tank, but Charley told
them if they destroyed the road there that
he and Smith would have to 20 into the
} army to make living, but by saving the
houses and roads the Yanks would have
two men less to fight. After this kind of
reasoning the Ianls thought best to let
the roads and wires alono, the operator Mr..
: Walker having Just made his escape with
: the instruments.
iHoD ulSp Nlttuc lclnlS Oh w CSI ONT,
Artesia, and came within two miles of Ma
, con. They threatened several other points
| on the road down, but did not como quite
l to them. The manner in which this raid
has been conducted proves that the Yanks
are greatly improving in the art of rading
/ for they would send out small parties with
| big stories and threaten points on the Mo-
} -bAe and Ohio Railroad while their main
| body was striking bee line for the South
, ern road thus drawing our forces up the
road and away from the real point of attack.
} They struck the Southern road at New
ton about I o'clock Friday morning. They
arrested the agent there, but he managed
to have his son run down the road to warn
the trains from Meridian of their danger
in time to save them, though they caught o
freight and construction train, burnt the
depot large amount of sugar and molasses
and other stores, and damaged the road
for three miles by burning the little trestle
works, the largest being about 20 feet in
length. The damage to the road does not
amount to near az much as was at first
thought. They then moved toward Enter
prise. Keeping their main body back, they
sent 1S men to the town to demand its sur
render, and gave the Mayor one hour, and
during this hour they made their escape
for Gen Loring was after them from Mer-
idiau, with two regiments of Gen. Buckner's
} pets-the Sd and 18th Kentucky, aud the 18th
Louisiana.
Gen. Lorng started with his men on foot,
having heard that the Yankees were in line
of battle about seven miles from Enterprise,
hut after double-quicking that distance the
Feds were non est and the boys came back
quite put out because they could not catch
the scoundrels. This alarming body of
cavalry, while at Newton, We're numbered,
and they had 900 men, all told, and four
light pieces of artillery. But they are we'll
mounted and armed, as only Yankees are,
and help themselves TO fresh horses wher-
ever they can find them.
But now q question arises, how are they
going to get.out? The last heard of them
they were about twenty miles from Enter.
prise going west. 1t does seem that they
ought to be caught. There was no neces-
sity for the great alarm which prevailed,
for surely those Yankees have got them
selves in predicament, in which they are
very liable to lose all the glory they have
won in the bold raid, if the game is only
played right at them,
The Mobile Register says:
1t looks as if the plan was to amuse our
two great armies in Tennessee and on the
Mississippi with expectations of early bat
tie, while movement was made from North
Mississippi-Corinth and Memphis being
the hases-southwar through Mississippi
The Yankees have evidently been acting on
the false information that there were no
Confederate troops on those lines. They
have also discovered their mistake at Cold
water, Birmingham and Enterprise. The
! raid so far south as the Meridian and Jack
son road was certainly bold one, but like
all military enterprises, hazardous one.
We hope we may yet learn that they
will find the return not so easy as the sud-
den irruption. From the best information
we can gather, these parties are mounted
infantry, a charactar of force unformidable.
One of Wheelers or Van Dorn's cavalry
regiments could scatter five thousand of
them. Before they get back, these gentry
will be apt to hear Van Dorn's bugles in
their rear, 1t would be no great feat for
Van Dorn's bold riders to cut them off, if
they tarry on this expedition. Meantime,
this raid puts our authorities on the qo.i eipe
to guard passage which has been left too
much exposed
An advocate having gained a suit for
. poor young lady, who, was ugly, she re-
marked, IL have nothing to pay you with,
sir, but my heart" Hand it over to my