Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-04-18
LETTER FROM mIssIssIPPE.

D
OAHToN, April 4, Is64.
IhAYe been across the Big Black into Yankee land,
alag Of truce in for the purpose of arranging for
tbs sending home of permanently disabled Ysnkses
| who had been left behind BY Sherman II was doubt,
less proper send thsss fellows back, bus the stout
thieves vho had been et to them. went tOo
rying with hsm lady watches which they had stolen,
aad enough gold chain 20 have hang them,
You viii hardly believe the wsutoa eosardy, viel-
Gus vIndie!ive and useless ViiIizay commed BY these
brutcs will not 60 into details. viii net insult the
anguiah and hatred Of the S0uh, By describing how
zry thirty thousand strong eas the throat Of lapdag
held to the bosom Of young girl. will not paint
Mars cutting guitar string
The war is huge frolie to the Yankees Soldiers
and officers enjoying themselves They want
nothing There is IN their camps, or longng
for homes and bloody field IS looked on ioyOusIy as
opening the door to promotion They discuss politics
in their camps these bruss They say thsy Demo
Gratis and would die before they wOuld vote with the
Republican party They boot and at Lincoln and
his party, and ara opposed to srmiRg negroes Bet
they fighting. Every blow they strike proeiAtms
| them liArz Their growing rank shows how well they
are serving those Agalnst whom they will vote die.
No bswd ever hid her aes Of prostitution behind 50
tain lattice
4Ae AaA htaEfoA RtoPtef aPFkeAcA bA7 sSAASAf
are deploraby uncertain as what the future may bring
thsm snd their shallow Psies many signs OF dsoy-
atty. It is well enough say "Msrds" to the approach
ing thGnderbol bat when # has struck is better to
pick up The pieces. Abandoned again and again to the
espreious brutality Of the fOe and apprehendDg hourly
that he viii again. these people are expected to
answer the "how yoa-whEts the newer Of the
visitor with TIVE to one in favor Of bis being an enemy
il Disguise with I'D d-m the Yankees Sc, &C." Nc
one thinks that tomorrow The youngest child in the
house may be struggling and pleading with Yankee
soldier for It's toy Isa last erumb Is srusl
bsyOnd The cruelty of the AbOHOnists doubt thsse
people Of the border thsse and old men, whose
sons and husbands fighting In Virginia and before
Atlanta Teas have into my eyes while watching
young girl seeking ehords In her broken plano Tbs
her catching tia look has opened her heart 10 me-
al my fair friend Atlanta you can neither curse nor
pray like the gentle mother of the young girl who Is
seeking chords in her broken plano.
Gen Ross broks up plantation near snydsr'a Bluff,
killing some ty negro soldiers who were guarding the
workmsn. The killing applSudsd Take no ne
gro prisoners the cry in which all join Il Is proper.
Il Is small part Of the calamity which the AbotoniS
has brought upon the negro. Il il doing the negro
wrong. The white officer commanding the squad more
than the black soldiers deserves DEATH and more than he
The Major General who direcu the movements Of the
black regiment II Is the white who infamous eupa.
bic but self preservation requires that th be rule
be well to have other rule with these white fellows
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