The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-03-24

e0oYn0 tWo Oo0mosSveo, reno0smo soo us'o" !" s"O
enemy General Majors with piste, cooked, 10 says, Or
dered him 70 repair thsm and upon his refusal tOd him
DO would have him put IN double irons l the teruins
ton Of the war. But no only sent him, accom-
panied by . guard, with . note 70 General
Taylor The rebel General when he read tho note, broke
ous 10 language improper 70 DO printed. Omtng all
The expeves the substance Of his observations 70 his
oHaCer surrounding him was this"Here, gentlemen 10
chat beautiful specimen Of Yankee who destroyed those
engines Take rope and hang him to the rss tree you
come ton This said only for effect, however, for
presently tho General, apparently relenting. said be
would not have the sentence executed instantly. but
would have the prisoner pot under double guard I'll
morning Mr. Clement was accordingly led away under
guard 10 the fort that night; but n the morning ne was
placed with the other prisoners. He is Of The cti
zeDs who released with mo. a H.. 1r. ..ss,
A MARCH TO MEXICO.
On Sunday morning, July 10, all those citizens save
few who sick hospital, SEN. under guard to
Texas. They were about forty-fve IN number. Among
them man who for thirteen years mad been JED.
Davis gardener. For q long time we never knew what
had become Of those prisoners, until al iast-many
months aiterwards-on our bomeward march, we hap
pened 10 guarded by the rebel soldiers who had
taken them TO Texas We ascertaned that the orders
from General Kirby Smiths headquarters 10 march
them the State Of Texas away 10 Eagle Pass,
the Rio Grande, and there turn them into Mexico
This company Of cavalry had accordingly conducted
them far as San Antonio, where they delivered
them TO the commander Of post, who forward
them TO kexCo. lt was two months marcn-a fear
full march Of seven eight hundred miles-n heat
Of summer. have learned recently that after having
been turned ose in Mexico they sought assistance from
the American Consul there, that be furnished them
transportation 10 New Orleans.
Ho! FOR TEXAS. sse
After these men had been sent away the officers had
continued confidence In the hopes held out 10 them that
they themselves would be very soon exchanged; but
only few days elapsed Before all OF to
fexas too Our destination Tyler, hundred
ten miles from Shreveport Captain Richardson's com.
pany OF cavalry escorted us. Our march was compare
lively easy We walked only from twelve TO fifteen miles
day Seventeen.mes Of the way travelled rail-
road into Marshall, where we remained from Friday
afternoon until Sunday morning. Marshall Is the home Of
the rebel General Wigfai. On Saturday had visit
from Number Of ladies and few old gentlemen resi-
dents OF Marshall Most Of the ladies strong ID the
belief that the South right and would eventually
achieve her Independence One old gentleman, 10 alu.
sioD to the evils which The enalng upon Texas,
mentioned one eocai evil In particular IL tel! you SIR"
be Observed $50 many OF our best young gone
away TO war that many Of young ladies home are
forming ipudicous, and, fear unhappy marriages"
We found that there was considerable rpjon sentiment
!. sss 4<zAss-s--ey sk,,s lts.#
SICKNESS AND SUFFERING.
Returning march, we reached destination 90 the
seth as roor upcn entering Tyler we were marched 10
the pubic square, and then countermarched 70 vacant
building II had been used in former times 90 United
States cosrt house. This old court house was diap
dated wooden building two stories high. Its walls
defsced ard its windows broken. The guard occupied
the largo on the ground floor. and we the four
smap in tie second story. More fifty Of us
were crowded into these small apartments. We found
ourselves better situated than we had been in ,he
nl.hy Shreveport Two Of the rooms bad ere;
places, where we cooked our rations. The different
toog 10 using the 6resa the utenss Our
roccecs'ons or that crazy building those Of long,
weary days Of lstless ideDess long, weary nights Of
restless sleepessness long, weary weeks Of consuming
fevera ILe apartments just about large enough
afford space spread blankets the floor and
lie close together round the We spent the month
Of August in tbs unpleasant building. The sum-
rner streamed in upon US through The open
windows. The summer heat lack OF proper
exercise and other unravorabc circumstances served
TO spread considerable sickness among Us. j sbud
der &c recall those days and nights Of sick.
and Suffering which there experienced We left
that building OF the closing days Of August
night, few weeks afterwards tie building accidentally
caught Ore and The flames swept away the Of those
Unpleasant recosiecteus.
EXPERIENCE AT CAMP FORD.
We we're uext moved 10 a camp ground al sulphur
srrug, forr n les from Tyler, where met few other
Union prisoners. u was called Camp Ford. tempo
rary shed building aboni forty feet by twenty was
the accommodation furnished for seventytwo OF as Al
this place under the charge Of the militia These
we're mostly old men, between The ages Of foryfve and
atty gathered 10 from The adjacent counties We cooked
rstions fires built on the eronnd outside the
rncgs Chopping wood afforded us come exercise. The
goaros, old ihey were unused 10 martial scenes
and military discipline, made the most comcaI locking
soldiers secessonsis but Of vtem were
uron Here specimen or the characteristic Ian.
gaage bitter secessionsis;-"I willing 10 &C
commodsie you in aoy why can bu, want you 10
dsrsiaDd thai hate you IKE He'll Anoiher old man,
syiy years Of age had joned The army as substitute
for which ne sad be had The 0feen thou
sapd dollars. I'm Confederate moneyy' inquired,
mo" be answered, mostly IN niger property got
seven nirgers and a horse" Bot macy Of them we're
Union men. Ofsentimes they have told me how
they ionged for the return OF peace and ibs
good old times when North and South
were enc They told 81 many families IN Texss
known 70 Them whose husbands and fathers bad been
forced away from bone, leaving ther wives and chi.
dren dos,tuie. they told whole districts Texas
where there 10 not white man len Al home. One Of
tb.se Union men on guard one day. With tcUchfg sad
nid --ii have had three brothers ged this
on the Southern side apd ther opinion about this thing
was ihe same az mnen We had been N Camp Ford .
month when Quartermssier Kimbali, or the Ono Hun
cred and seventy s,xh New York regiment ued Of eene
raj deplity, the result doubt, or MA Imprisonment
We buried him besde large oaE tree, abort distance
from the building. subsequently laid beside hin
rcmans of Private Bya, u abe Nineteenth Iowa. who
Died from the effects q bite Of tarantuls and John
Morehead, Of the Twentys Indiana regiment who
murdered by rebe sentinel Previous TO that time
me ocsrs and Of the Nineteenth Iowa and Twenty.
sixth Indiana regiments captured Eorganza on The
Mississippi In September, bad been marched from there
tpesry four hundred mesl and joined ~ Camp Ford.
There nearly four hrpdred apd nifty OF them. No
accommodated whatever bad been prov ded for then