The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-12
ARMY CORRESPONDENCE
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND,
MURFREEsBoEo, Tenn,
Feb. 3. 1868.

But the vociferous cries of our four
legged soldiers renders it necessary Tor
our boys to indulge in a little recreahon'
now and then, by way of foraging. Some
of these expeditions are attended with
little amusement, for rebel cavalry are /
constantly prowling about the country
and in all cases where there is man sus-
pected of being for the Union, his forage
is consumed by the devouring flames.
No mercy is shown Union man when
he falls into the hands of the enemy
now. 1t may be asked why the rebels
Gen. Rosecrans came here with his
Yankee Army" the enemy entertained
vague notions of staying here and eating
the corn themselves, but a closer acquain-
lance with our General, and his press
ing invitation " for Bragg to get out of
his way, had remarkable influence over
the minds of those chaps who were not
exactly ready to die in the last ditch,
and being somewhat in hurry, they for
got that we would have nice time here
fatting our mules, &c. Hence we find
corn enough for all practical purposes,
and our boys are not little amused gath
ering into D." Uncle Sans great barn
the corn that Bragg so confidently ex
pected to feed upon. You are fully
aware that this country is not troubled
with Union men much; hence it is only
occasionally that the rowing rebels find a
victim on whom to wreak their VEN
! geance.
! A friend of mine, while out foraging
with large train, not long since, stop
] ped in house where a number of wagons
were being loaded with corn, aud there
he met with a pair of rery pretty secesh
| ladies, who were very communicative,
and by no means abashed at the presence
of federal solder-nor did they appear
in the least intimidated, for doubtless
they were sure that so high a sense of
honor possessed the heart of the soldier,
that they could talk treason at will, and,
being ladies, not suffer even rebuke.
Ny friend managed to be as pleasant as
possible, till finally one of the ladies
asked him if he were a married man.
He answered he was not The lady
said it was astonishing that the number
of unmarried federal officers was so
great that she had not seen one yet who
was married man.
To which the officer replied: Our
people, ladies, are clustering, working
people; have no negroes to work fol-
them, and hence, no time to marry
however, this is not the case with me
" Indeed cried the ladies with one
voice. Tell US all about it.
Well, said the officer, " it happened
thus; 1 courted beautiful dutch girl
and loved her dearly, but asked her to
get up dinner for me so that l could
have a specimen of her cooking. Ac-
cordingly she produced upon the table
fine leg of mutton, but she had put SO
much garlick on it that l could not eat
/ lt-so of course l could not marry her. "
Oh, oh, cried the fair ones, "but
the second one-tell us about that"
Disappointed North continued the
officer, II concluded to go South. I
met, loved, courted, and engaged to
marry beautiful brunette, whose very
eyes spoke volumes of love; but just the
day before the wedding was to have
come off, [ discovered that she dipped
snuff, so of course l could not marry
her."
The ladies both exclaimed, in one
breath, A Yankee trick! for both
were then dipping snuff
1t is reported here that the rebel army
IS retiring from Tullahoma. l expect SO,
/ for this same army had a retiring fit on
/ it about the first of January.
! The soldiers have with pain learned
that there are number of anti-war men
at home who are doing all they can to
! clog the wheels of Government. 1t is
/ feared that this same class will vet turn
out to stealing out of soldiers corn
crib. Could you hear the soldiers talk
! of that class of beasts, you would imag-
inc that the boys hated those white-liv-
cred rascals even worse than the enemy
! that is before US, or the guerrilla that
! plumbers and robs under the sanction of
/ the so-called Government they profess to
! belong to.
You may depend on it, this army is
not looking on the actioas of those men
J foEGetfully- but-exeFy- ward-said-
every thing done by these fellows is care
fully noted down; and when once the
soldiers are permitted to return to civil
life, the entire list of a long series of ac-
counts will be settled in one bunch.
Some fool at home has had the auda-
city to ask officers, that l know, to resign,
on the ground that this is an Abolition
war; but depend on it, no officer who
is not himself a burden to the service.
and a nuisance in the army, in the way
of the promotion of some good Sergeant,
will resign on any such ground; besides,
if any attempted to resign on that score,
| presume our General would most likely
give such an acceptance of a resignation
which none but traitor could relish
very well; besides, his fellow officers
would probably make it so hot that he
would imagine he already had his pro-
bOscis in living, burning heap of
birthstone. This army came to fight, as
it has done. 1t came to whip rebels-it
has done that; and all our soldiers want
is for those chaps who are afraid of the
draft and their own worthless carcasses,
to keep their mouths shut, and mind
their own busidess, and the work will
soon he over