The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-04
--latest Southern News
UNION PRISONERS AT
ANDERSONVILLE.
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Removed to Places of Safety.
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LETTER FROM GENERAL LEE.
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What he Thinks of Moseby.
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Removed to Places of Safety.
BURIAL OF GEN. RHODES.
YANKEE PRISONERS REMOVED.

YANKEE PRISONERS REMOVED,
From The Richmond Enquirer, September q.
The Yankee prisoners have been removed
from And,r,Onville, Georgia, to safer points
When tiey began TO take the cars for their new
destination, believing Il to be for the purpose Of
exchange, they were in high spirits.
LIgUTENANT COLONEL MosBBY.
From ne Richmond Enquirer, $ p!en,5Cr ~.
The following is copy OF General Lees in
dOTsement on Lleutenant-Colonel MlsDy's repIrt
o' bis OueTatOns from the lst of March TO the
ii b Of SEPTEMBER, 1864: -
H. ADQuARTRRs Army NORTHERN VIRGINIA. September
10 peculN fora ardsd % the u4nt and Inspector
! inveu to the activity aod skio E'6Iel Mosc6y, and
N i,ulge courage of the Officers and OF ms
tOmmaI d, as disp AZ ed In his report
wIh he loss i little mo'e than twenty men, be has
kncd ou ded and captur d. dhur the pedOd embraced
in sr,port, about rWcve cd OF the enemy ana
tal lcn more tn sixteen hundred hones ana mules two
and amt uanocf, with counting many small perAtons
Tie seTy,Cs rndered by Colonel Mosebv and his COM
maud. IN whtChIp and unrng the enemy move meats
have also been of great value Wis operations have been
(sGned) II. E. LEE, General.
BURIAL OF GENERAL RHODES.
From ne Richmond Enquirer, SepeBJtrH.
The last sad tribute of respect to the lamented
GtpeTal Robert T.. Rhodes, says she LynchburG
Repubhcan of SaIuTday-that of consigning his
BODY to its final resIing-place-was performed
yesterday by a civic and military Concourse
exceeding In numbers any ever Assem- bed in this
city. except the funeral procession of onewall
jackson. AZ O'CLOCK IN the morning, AgreeaOly
10 The request of the mayor, AL business houses
were closed, and business of every kind was
suspended
At 10 O'Clock the Masonic fraternity (of which
General Rhodes was member) officers of the
Confederate, State, and City Governments the
Ambulance Committee, and a large number Of
military companies, formed on Main street,
whence, under command of General ColstOn
they marched 10 the house of his childhood for
the purpose of Tect living the corpse and escortng
it 10 the place of interment in the Prcsbyteria
gravey ard.
No funeral discourse was delivered; hut nc thf
grave unOunded by numerous members of hie
family, the services, uuder the ministration os
the Rev. DIR. Ram ay, OF the Presbyterian
Church. were most solemn aud impressive. The
reverend gentleman, in few eloquent remarks
| spoke OF the great loss our country and his
| family have sustained In the death Of General
| Ri OdCs. of his exalted worth as man, a sol
dieT, and a Christian, closing with feryent in
| vocation to God 10 YOuChsate to our struggling
| nation tit soldier to occupy the high post the
| deceased had so worldly hiled. ....
| A most pathetic hymn was then sung by those
assembled around the grave, followed by PRAYER,
| and a heuedictiOn by the officiating clergyman.
| The Masonic fraternity then surrounded the
grave, and, according 10 their beautiful ritual,
| threw In their emhlematc tokens, and consiRning
:" earth 10 earth, ashes TO ashes, dust 10 dust,
proceeded % shut forever from mortal vision the
| body of the distinguished dead.
| This being done, the hands Of lovely woman
| besuewed the grave of the noble gentleman, the
| chivalrOus and pure Christian warrior with gar
lands of eveTgTeens and inDiOrteles tit emblems
| of the undying love and esteem with which the
| memory Of Robert f.. Rhodes will ever be cher
ished by his bereaved countrymen.