Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-06-09
From the Thirty First Regiment.
MURFREEsBoRo, TENNESSEE,
Nav 3D. 1864 {

you description OF the Tennesseeans. In
the last day of December, 1868, all the nat
ural associations connected with the poetic
name "Sunny Tennessee were entirely at
fault. The heavens were clothed with the
murky draping of the tempest; and 'Sun-
nv Tennessee" minus the beams of sun
shine, or the cheering corruscations of Sols
direct rays, presented most cheerless as
pect at the demise of the old year. 1t was
disgusting rainy, snowy, sleety, freezing
| outIandish, and ad infSnituma sort of day
In the morning it was bleak and cloudy
at noon it was rainy and very sloppy and
muddy, and about P NJ it suddenly turn
ed excruciatingly cold, and blew an unnat-
ural nondescript snow, which blew at dou-
ble-quick railroad speed.
Tn the early part of the day my atten-
ton was called by an officer Of the 22d
Wis to a house which was deserted by the
aristocratic secessionst proprietor, and now
occupied by number of unfortunate Ten
nessee refugees Two ladies, not entirely
in nude state, neither overburdened with
garments, appeared to be performing general
ablutions beneath the piazza in front of the
once proud mansion of the despotic slaye-
holder and would be royal prince, duke,
MARQUIS, earl or baron; but now a fugitive
from Justice, a rebel in arms against his
country, and slave to jeff Davis, on the
high road to ruin.
Drawing near to the mansion we observe
some clothes lying on bench, and one of
aforesaid ladies with an immense club in
her hand chastising with unrelenting fury
the necessary passive articles of monde
script color; while the other lady passed
the not bleeding, but we assume torn-frag-
ments of clothes through the water in yon-
der higher vessel. We approach the en-
trance, and there lady stood with. some
thing resembling the stem Of a pipe in her
mouth, which she presently withdrew,
when to our astonishment the end thus
withdrawn from it's concealed abode where
the expanding and contracting cheeks had
given evidence of something approaching to
masticaton is covered with cloth of a
most obnoxious color, which is thoroughly
saturated with saliva, in which state it is
rolled over in something like snuff for which
+ ba A j.
are exchanged with the lady, and we arc
compelled to turn aside from the disgusting
spectacle, which has already created un-
pleasant sickening sensations as the stained
chin is further moistened with the outgush-
ing saliva.
By the way the greater part of those
Tennesseeans who occupy the vacated man.
sions of the secesh in the towns, villas and
vicinity of camps, constitute direful
plague, infesting the army with their poison
Gus moral pollution, as notwithstanding
their filthy and obnoxious habits their
houses are seldom at the midnight hour
destitute of Lincoln blue, whether the shoul-
der is gilded or no. Thus their demoral-
izing tendency verfes the saying of the
wise man, That their houses incline unto
destruction, and their paths unto the dead.
But there are men of intelligence in Ten
nessee. Instance. the most prominent min
lister in Nashville, the metropolitan city of
southern methodism, DR.. Baldwin. The
learned orator, the famous author of Ar
magellon in the early part of the war, was
a great advocate of secession; and the
divine origin of slavery, (Blasphemous doc
trine Gods image in ebony doomed to
perpetual sevitude, while he is no respec-
tor of persons) Well this learned doctor
appointed certain Sabbath as the day on
which he would preach in Nashville's grand
est church on the sin Of eowardice, with a
view to the resistance of the "hordes of
savage Northern Yankees" The day ar
rived, and the popular southern orator en-
tered the pulpit at the appointed hour, de-
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enthusiasm of the audience to great height
as with thrilling eloquence and glowing i'm
aginary he described the divine glory as
attending the confederate cause and army,
as they punished the mudsills Of the North
and established the glorious doctrine of the
noble men of Southern chvalry over north
ern mechanics and the sable progeny OF
| Ham,
The sermon over he was about to dis
miss the delighted audience, when courier
ascended the pulpit of McKendree chapel
and whispered in an agitated manner some
thing to the gallant preacher, who said I'VE
will be dismissed Ihave the painful intelli
gence to announce the Yankees have taker
| Fort Donnelson The smoke Of their gun
boats are in sight. The whole road from
Fort Donnelson to .AashyIlleis strewed with