The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-12-29

ing that she had never read either, th
daughter. with much surprise. exclaimed
"Why, ma, don't you know thsAlV orl
| sympathizes with usY"
4 A pleasant JOKE, you think bu
oughtn't it TO blush the World?
"A CRUEL JoKg ON HARDEB-wALCuT
4 THRAsHEs c, BIB AND TIE MILITIA.
Alter literally riding over brigade 0
rebel cavalry, at Jon .sboro, General Xii
patrick, with six thousand horses, went t,
Griffin. where he found The telegraph lio,
in working order to Macon. Improyiat
the opportunity, he sent his conplime Mt
over the wires to HArdee, With an ssspr
ance that he would be .shappy to TAX,
breakfast with him next morning 10 Ma
con r. Hardee replied. inviting him t,
come on, as be bai .shad the pleasure o
making eneral Stoneman's acquain,anc.
at the same place" and promising him
Stouemsn's cell, as it was now empty"
I'm give Hardee one of my seus''
| thought Fitzpatrick, and so it happened
that at Grisuoldrills, on the 22d OF Nov
enber, when Hardee ordered the militia
TO attack the Yankee cavalry, Fitzpatrick
quietly Withdrew his forces, uacoreriay
Hoods dieision the l5th corps. and
that division occupied ciump OF woods
that roould not be easily taken BY The enc
my.
Bfgadier General CharlesC G Walcu,.'s
brigade, being 10 the advance, and bs-
hind hastily constructed rail barricade,
received the assa plt and repulsed it hand
somely. Ignorant of the ruse, the militia
under General Cpbb, of AIabsms, form
erly member Of tile United. States Sen.
ate, boldly made the attack, and from two
o'clock in the afternoon until dark the
battle ragged with RELENTLESS cruelty. Mass
ing in open fields, and in three different
columns, the ut'ilia charged no less than
six times, in the vain endcavor TO oecu-
py the woods Walcutt's brigade was
armed with sixteen-shooters, had ample
protection, large mark, and steady
nerves, and all they had to do was 10
pump into the rebel ranks a storm OF lead
en- hail. Lookersfen were there from a /
parts Of Shermsn's army, and they un,
yersally declare they never saw slch a
fight in the world. The enemy formed
his lines with all the precision of batts
ION drill, and then they moved forward
ike so much machinery. Officers swoyd,
men cbeered, drups beat, bsnners waved
bullets flew, towards fled; but when al
last, when this Cob had been we'll shell
ed, and his meal roughly ground at bi:
own mil. be "acknosledgeJ the coro
and lett the fed TO fleet on his loss :
| twelve hundred wounded, three huudre /
| killed and one luadred missinal Thk
rebel General Phillips was killed anS
/ Gen Smith wounded. An awful sccns
was that CORY field. Old uen, with head,
that lad ben snoacesl on, aud young boys
with youths freshness still visible Oh
their up-iurned faces, 10y side by sid
riddIed silh bullets Here head, the1.
an arm, yon4er leg, aud the woundet
piled up With and amsng the dead Wa
| seldom presents picture SO fightfui.
WHAT THE RIBS THINK OF SHERMAN.
Captain George l. Burnett, a membe
of Governor joseph 4. Brown's staff, wild
whom became acquainted recently, say
that the Governor has frequently remark
ed to him ana to Others, ia discussing III
afflirs of the day:
'.She.man is a aRan-a great milit"r
/ mantle most bitter as well as the mos
dang gefous Of all the enemies OF the Svut
and independence.
! If Brown had been at home four week
ago he could have welcomed ;he Gcucrs
10 his capitol. aud delivered the compl
meat il person, Instead Of through hi
staff.
I Col. Dyer. Of Monticello. cousin {
Gov. Dyer, OF Rhode lsiand, told me Will
lthefe
"Sherman is the greatest of all Gcuel
a's, and the one most dreaded In Geo.
gia"
, Mrs. Godkins, an accomplished lady
Hillsboro, ard the wife OF surgeon
Hoods armJ, said most emphaticaiiy
"Be,ter-a thousand times bettcr--g
back into the Union this year nth q Il
honor, than 10 do it next year an diyroc
Sherman will destroy everything befo
that time
And high authority in Clinton scold'
to your correspondent in this wise
">herman has struck US IN the wrol
time. Our crops are now harvested al
! be will take them all A year mu
= elapse before We can possibly repair dar
ages. Ii Gen. Hood comma nds our arr
one year there will be nothing left of u
GA lucky shot-,he one that shall /
4, the monster, Shernan"-spits out
\ Richmond paper wrathiully
= The Official captures of Corse's div
: ion in The campaign from Rome TO Fl
: McAlister, will amount to enc hundi
r prisoners, five hundred head Of hor
and mules, one thousand bales of cot,
f" which were burned 6se thousand call
i, sheep aud hogs, len -thousard tu.heIs
= sweet potatoes and perhaps fifteen tho
and bushels Of corn Multiply these G
! lures by fifteen, tie uumber Of divisions
~ Saermas's army, addiag the destfuet
- of railroads and public buildings, and
:, sum total viii be very fair estimate
:" the losses of the Southern Cenfvderi
in Georgia, in what the Savannsh Rep
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