Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-01-17

ed which are without parallel in history The Leg,
lature which was in session there broke up and aOn
with the Governor htd in confusion. Some of he Cit
zens made arrangements deliver the city to the en-
emy, TO II FROM being sheled whilst others ad
dressed themselves the business of robbng the CON
missary and quaiternrssers stores Of our army Gen
Floyd having arrived during these scenes attempted
restore order and succeeded by impressing unwilling
citizens in securing aid sending of cons sderabe quaat
ties Of government stores Gen Johnston route fror
Bowling Green passed hastily through Nashville with
out making show OF resisting tie advance of the es
eiry 1t is said he believed that resistance would hav
insured the destruction Of the city, which the inhab
tants were unwilling 10 risk without promising any COZ
responding good
On the sih Of February the last of the Confederate
had evacuated Nashville and the Yankees took posses
sion There little doubt that the inhabitants hav
10 regret that they preferred surrender
with Andy johnson al military governor to lombard
ment
! Gen Johnston by the railroads and forced marche
hurried to form juvGtion with 5eaurega-d, who having
month before been removed from the army of North
Virginia tc the corlmand of the department Of h
Mississippi Withdrawing his troops from Columbus
On the very day that Nashville given up to tn,
enemy forces were victorious at Sugar Creek Mis-
souri,, and Va Verde New Mexico, and great storm
was scattering Burnside's feet the Atlantic.
On The I'D of February President Davis was inaT
gurated st Richmond The day like the hearts Of ouI
people Yves gloomy, and the iusugura ceremony took
place amid tremendous snow orm- Still, the install
laton Of the President gratifying the nation
Yankees had boasted hat he should be inaugura
ted 1t Richmond, and It thought that affairs would
be managed with grea'er vigor by the permanent gov
eminent 1t had not confidently asserted and The
rUmor had found its way into the public prints that
after bis inauguration piece OF news would be made
public thst would rel the whole nation. 1t was gen
orally believed the time that European Intervention
TO be proposed the establishment Of the perma
nent government but from that day to this the matter
if any there was has never been divulged.
The first joy the nation knew sprang from the uneL-
pected appearance, a0d glorious victory Of unryal
led Virginia over the Yankee fugates Cumberland and
Congress, the steamer Minnesota, in Hampton Roads
the 6th Of March ud her victory the far famed
Moutor the day after The intelligence of thess
r ha a
became the pride and hope of the South Many
eved she destined to clear waters OF the enemy,
and put q face upon the wsr in Virginia. What
she might have done under different management re
mains unfortunately an open qu stion She was blown
up by her commander month afterWa dA without
having attempted any other srYlce than ths capture OF
two unarn1ed Yankee schoOners. The grief OF peO
pie when this astro phe was made known was un-
bounded and to this dsy they refused be comforted
While the Virginia iliid Monitor batteriug each
others sid in Hampton AOads the army Of Northern
Virginia performing the most mastery movement Of
the in falling back from Winchester, Centeryle and
Manassas, and entsils upon Mcclellan all the results
OF d-feet Me iellsn advanced upon our desc ted
works 10 lind that for months he had been kept at bay
by Quaker siege guns and an army third the size OF
his OWE.
zen Johnston fell back to Gordonsvie, and @cClel.
lam after pretended pursuit returned aud transported
his army, of ovsrone hundred thousand meR by water
to the YORK geniRsula where he wss checked by Gen
gruder with less th an ee thousand effective men,
As soon as this mo cement Of the enemy was sscer
taiied Gen hnston transferred DTS troops % the sup
port of Mag uder The Passss OF ms hnngry and rag
gea through the streets Of RiehIRond will
soon be forgotten by ou scirzens.
at thi iuBcture the aIten ion of the world was dis
trscted from Virginia the Southwest where on the
9th of April General Beauregsrd beat Grant the
bloody field OF Shiloh killing, woundmg and taking
prisoners twentythTee thousand Of the enemy bet lost
his advantage by the ndiscpne of his troops next day
at Pittsburg Landing; General A. S. Johnston, the
anderin-chief OF the Western army, killed At
shiloh After the battle Of Shiloh there ensued
other almost unbroken Of bsd luck for the Confede
cause, it losing during he month Of April leland
n TDsfg onlru and ia
and the city Of New Orleans
The defense Of Forts Phillip aud Jackson, which
guarded the door New DREAMS was most Getermlue
md it IS believed would have been successful but Tor TIE
washing away Of the Obstruc Of the mississippi by
deluge which enabled the gunbOats of the enemy TO
run the gauntlet Of the forts and reach the city Had
is possible that the enemys hest might have been
driven back after passing the forts But most Of the
amboat captains they their boats ashore and set
them on fire the fst approach of the enemy. Capt.
Beverly KennOn and another officer Of the old navy
fought their boats with gallant and desperate courage
which has never beer surp 4ssed; but after performing
orodes Of valor which extoried the admiration of
her les, they were overcome by numbers and
Gen. Lowell, who commanded the Confederate forces
It New Orleans set fire 70 sl the cotton in the city
and withdrew The city surrendered without
irng shot There are many opinions on this subject
some say that it A i'm 9osible to defend she city be-
cause the works which had been erected for that purpose
the time submerged by the freset Others hold
Lowell retired only when he found the citizens un
wiling to submit a bombardment; but many be-
ieve the citizens would have undergone every hingrsth
r than 70 have surrendered had Lowell stood by them
Whatever may be the true facts OF the case, New Or
cans was surrenderei on the 26th of april, and imme
lately occupied by the Massachusetts yrsnt Butler
Who Tor than feven mouths exercised his power
sfter fashion brutal and atrocious as 10 call down
1pon his head the e1ecraons Of the whole civilized
world. Far better had It been for the people Of New
Orleans TO have had their houses leveled with the
yround and their aud children driven forth into
be forrest for shelter, were the nhsbtaRts of Voks
n-Trr nafsfu FFaH aha
ule of 8 Ysnkes Hsynau.
After the fall of New Orleans victory deserted the
Yankee banners aud perched permanently on those Of
he ConfederacY. With the bright month of May new
ra of broke upon or arms The eonscrpt act
lad been passed by Congress during the preceding |
MONTH and proved the salvation OF the republic With
ut il our armies would have been dsbanded Just the
eriod when the enemy preparing to make his 1
reat and, thought by the world at large over
yhelming advance upon Richmond
The cOnscript law held armies together and rein
orced them with thou snds of fresh troops who
a short time. by conduct and example, rendered as
fneisnt volunteers 1t was now thought advisable
til. further contrct lines Of defense in Virginia
nd draw the enemy inland 10 point beyond the CO.
nerstion of his guno0ats With this view Gen John
on ,yitbdreyv from Yorktown and fell back toward
richmond. Mcclellan becoming, through an accident, /
ware Of the movement, Immediately pursued our col
mns which reco led on him at Williamsburg the Sd
May and drove back his army killing ana wounding /
eween three and four thousand. and taking four hun
red prisoners. Johnston then resumed his march, and
fter some neonsderable skirmishes took position on
ne south bank Of ths Chiekahominy, within five miles
Richmond
Actiner uon the policy Of contracting our lines which
ad been generally adopted, Penssc7 ia and Norfolk
-ere beth evacuated on the 10th Of May General Bragg
hitting his troops wi tn those of Beauregsrd Gen
Iuger consolidating his with the army before Rich
lond.
Al this time the intelligence of the destruction Of the
irzinia burst upon the people Of Richmond like clap 1
thunder from clo udiess sky. distressing gunboat
anio the quence The city council had, for
lonths, been urging aPo1 the Otnfeaerae government
1e necessity of obs ructirg James Riv and failing to
lduce them to hurry the work, had undertaken il
But when the destruction Of the Virginia
,ag announced the work had been barely begun The
ny obstruction between the city and the dread Monitor
nd the gunbOats wis half finished fort st Drewry's
fluff which mounted three guns. AT last the Confed-
rate authorities seemed 70 be aroused 10 u sense of
anger and fell to work ia ridiculous haste sezin upon
hiking them ia the wrong places. While this skurry
gas still going on the Monitor Galena, and two other
unboats steamed MP the rvef, and the 18th of May
ttseked Dfewfys B uf
In the meantime the Legislature Of Virginia and the
itizens Of Richmond had passed resolui rs urging the
gcvernueHt to fend he city the last
xtremity. After igOrous defense of several hours
he gunboats repused at Drewrys bluff and three
them crippled. Riehuond for the tine AS sfe
'he events Of Importance were JacksJns victories
yer the enemy 10 the valley, The II and 25th May,
nd his recapture of Winchester on the LATER day
Oa the 3ist of My Cured the great battle Of the
even Pines IN which the Yankees were defeated snd
rveu from their caElps with loss Of thousand
iled and vOu ded 1t is believed but for ne stupidity
msnana cement Of some officers this occasion, the
Thoe of The Yankee iorce on the south side of ths
Ihiek shominy would have bees snnhilated. Tnis was
be 6rst gre 81 shock AeCe had received since his
ppe srancs before Richmond and be did not seem ever
erwsrds to have recovered from its stanniag efec,
The number Of our HE'D and wounded was also great
eTh ps amounting four Thousand, bu the greatest
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