Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-06-17
From Mississippi.

From Mississippi. ).
It was stated some days ago that Kirby
Smith had crossed the Mississippi and par
ticipated in the fight of Port Hudson
Such is not the fact. Gen. Gardner com.
manded our troops on that occasion, and he .
and his veteran soldiers are entitled to all
the credit of that brilliant and important
victory.
A gentleman from the neigbborhood Of
Edwards Depot, Mississippi, statesthat'the
vandals. are making "a clean sweep Of. every
thing in that vicinity. They have burnt
every gin and mill, and in many instances
every building on nearly all the plantations
arrested the men and taken them of,
leaving no white person but the women on
the premises; and when the negroes remain
they are all armed.
A day or two ago party of Confederate
soldiers captured and'brought into Jackson:
Mississippi, body ofinsurgent negroes on
a plantation near Big Black. The Van.
KEGS had been through that country and in
structed the eontrabands how to proceed un-
der the new relation. Accordingly the ne
groes measured off the land with a plow
line, making fair apportionment between
themselves, also divided the cotton and i'm
plements Of husbandry. When they
ground meal they kindly dealed out rations
to their old helpless master, and also, gave
him his allowance of bacon. AT least the
negroes themselves claim to have been thus
kind~to the deposed patriarch, although it
is said that the old man was upon the verge
of starvation when our soldiers came to his
rescue. These negroes we're provided with
arms by the robbers, but refused to tell
where they we're concealed until they were
forced to.
Eight companies, if not all Of Crawford's.
regiment, have been captured. Also half
of Rowan's. Pitts regiment escaped and
is now in Vicksburg. The regiments that
were captured were fighting gallantlY, but
were surrounded before they had time to
retreat They were captured in the fight
on: Big Black river. A paroled Confede.
rate, who was with the enemy, saw Colonel
Crawford and Lieut.. Col. Gregg after they
were captured. They were well, and not
wounded. -
Gen. Vaughn and staff escaped. The
General acted gallantly.
'.Blue Bonnets over the Border"
Concluding from late occurrences and
revelations that the enemy, despairing Of
conquering the South in open and manly
combat, are determined by the use Of means
forbidden by the rules of civilized warfare
and revolving to humanity, to desolate our
land and exterminate our people, the Chat.
tanooga Rebel says: We feel profoundly
touched at the sad and solemn picture of
the future that is thus weaving in the womb
of fate, but We are not sure that it is to. be
deplored as an unmixed evil-thousands Of
innocent, helpless and noble hearts will fall
crushed and bleeding under the wheels of
this Juggernaut of fanaticism, but from the
blood Of the martyrs will spring theseed Of;
the church, and the temple of hope and
freedom will be rebuilt and reconsecrated.
we cannot, be, thus subdaed. We shall rise
higher, more intact and united as these
tenfold furies, thus turned loose, have to
be met and confronted.
Our Government must deyelope its re-;
served energies-east away forbearance.-,
We can arm and equip fifty thousand ofour.
veterans who never fled from the face of
the enemy. They can lay in ashes the
richest and most populous Of Northern cit.
les, leaving behind them belt as broad
and burning as the Elliptic. They can run
burning plough over the, hot.bed Of
fanaticism, from which sprang The Ate
turned loose on the South.
If our President will but announce and
permit such policy, he will be justified
iu the eyes of the civilized world, and will
evoke new spirit in the South that has
never yet been called into action. Thou
sands of men are just now thrust out with
cruelty aud ignomiuy from Louisiana, Mis-
souri,, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Maryland,
and they are thirsting to go back with fire
and sword. Thousands more of our people
who have felt that mere defence of our own
land was not the true policy, would be stir
red to their inner depths by the trumpet
call of invasion.
We should meet the truculent Yankees
as the Indian Conanehet die when they
sought his alliance after numbering his
peoplean devastating his land. He raised
himself proudly to his full height, and re-
piled: .....,. .-.....
"The fire that consumed the lodges Of
my people turned the heart of Conanchet
to stone." Charleston Mercury.
WHAT THE YANKEE CAVALRY INTEND
TO Do-ARE WE READY FOB THEM ?-The
following is an editorial from the Nashville