Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-12-29
RUTLAND HERALD.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1854.
sHERMAN,s GREAT MARCH.
r,..n.r interesting Particulars.


IAN account condensed from the New
Work Times, of Shermans great march
khrough Georgia. The New York Her
aId also has lengthy account o. the
|Snarch, from which we take the follow
nc further particulars
u mock SESSIONS OF THE nRaIsLAruRs.
The State House when | visited it,
,rsented scene of devastation and
khaos. The troops had entered the Sen
Ate and Representative chambers and
HE offices attached, and torn up the fur
niture, scattered the contents OF draw
hrs about the floor, destroyed the library
and State papers left behind by Gov.
Brown and his associates in their hur-
red flight, appropriated TO their own
use everything they could carry, cut the
{the trimmings from the windows, and
reyeled in broad sheets of unsigned
Estate bonds and currency, several mil
Llions of which were found piled up in
lone of the rooms, as well as the plates
IRON which they had been struck.
On the day that the 10th corps tri-
umphantly marched into the capital, to
the music of the Union, the officers of
1.-The 14th corps, to the number of about
lone hundred, assembled at the Senate
Ichamber, called the roll of the House,
Iappointed Speaker and clerks and
! opened the Legislature. The question
Of reconstructing the State was taken
l no and discussed for some hours, with
sil the gravity conceivable, by the Yam
kee representatives from the various
counties. The result of the delibera-
tons was that the State was led back
like conquered child into the Union,
and committee appointed to kick Gov
ernor Brown and President Davis,
which committee retired, and soon after
returned and reported that they were
animated by q progressive spirit, but
that the parties upon whom they were
to exercise their pedal extremitles' were
ron est.
On the evening of the 26th General
Morgan, Second division, Fourteenth
g corps. had the advance, and when with
in mile of Sandersvile the mounted
e foraging parties in the advance encoun.
e tered Wheeler's cavalry under command
of the General himself The foraeing
, party dismounted, deployed as skirmish
. ers, and drove Wheeler from his barri
= cade of rails, when Morgan's advance
fthe Second brigade) came up, and IL
ten minutes Wheeler and his three thou
sand horses were rushing madly out o
|. the town, which was at once occupied
BY Morgan, whose command burned tn
4 court house and number of shops
4 The men, in retaliation for having beef
\ fred upor, almost gutted the hotel
court house, offices and stores, and "for
aged literally" upon the inhabitants.
On the ID inst, near Waynesboro
? 4 three graves of three members OF tn
2lst Ohio were found on the plantation
of rebel captain named Mccullough
where they had been murdered the nigh
before by Mccullough and his gang
while feraging. One of the murdere
men was Walter Burns, OF Findlay Ohit
who was postmaster Of the Third brig
ade of Carlin's division, a young ma
who, at the battle OF Jonesboro, acte
as orderly, and carried orders where FEY
men would 60. Some of the comrade
of the men opened the graves and foun
/, n that the tAroats of too Of them had been e9
While working near the railway Q
Lumpkins five members OF the Ssth III
= Il diana dug up rebel paymasters Do
Il containing ten dollars in silver, and nv
! 81 hundred thousand dollars in rebel oil
|: b of the new issue 1t was quite Wlnt
Nj fall to the boys, who use it to fight u
III atieern and replenish their larder. A
Il n along the line of march Sherman's SO
diers have reveled in rebel scrip and TO
eign currency. The citizens hearing
II the approach of the "Yanks," burit
nearly all their valuables, much OF whit
were exhumed by the men, who rare
fail to discover it, Among the lars
s'finds" was $4,000 in gold by some mer
bers of Hobart's brigade of Carlins
vision. Rebel money is so plentiful
camp that the men light their pipes wi
a5O bills, and kindle their fires wi
$4,000 Georgia State bonds
Shortly after leaving Milledgeville &c
M Davis detected two soldiers stealing
dies clothing from a house near I
road. Turning them over to the n
H vost Marshal, they were dressed In |
II stolen crinoline and petticoats, tied
tba rear of wagons, and for six ds
ma ~ched through muddy toras
swam,,s as an example to the men
Ia his comm snd. They came out from
ordea, with slightly discolored ski
and colored stockings.
THE coNrRABANps-SvHEEL ATRooi
From the time we LEFT Atlanta, "
fifty or hundred contraban,cs' tne e
W ored brigades" continued to s'Vetl
numbers until we arrived at the Os
chez, when fully 10000 were attached
the various columns. They represen
all shades and conditions, from the
most white housemaid servant, wo
$4,000 in rebel currency, to the I
E black, pock marked cotton picker, v
never crosses massa's door sill. Nv
large majority of them were women
children, who, mounted on mules, sol
times five on an animal, in OK wage
buggies and vehicles Of every desc
tion, blocked the roads, and materi.
delayed the movement Of the colun
1t was no unusual sight to behol
slave mother carrying two young c
dren and leading third, who, in
nude state, trudged along the the
path to freedom. Columns could
written descriptive of the harrow