The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-05-27
COLUMBUS, KY. May IA, 1864.

COLUMBUS, KY, May IA, 1864.
Editors Of st. Paul Pioneer:
The Tenth Minnesota LEFT st. Louis April
Goth, and on the Path pitched our tents on the
hill, from which day the time was all i'm
proved BY drilling and standing guard. On
Thursday, the 4th inst, we were ordered to
prepare for march, with so rounds Of ammu-
milton. three days rations, and each man carry
ing his half tent At ~ o'clock we were
ready Col Moore commanded the brigade,
consisting Of our Tenth, the Missouri Twenty
First (veteransl the Indiana Fifty Second wet
erans), and four guns of q six-pounder battery.
The veterans had the advance, and our regi-
ment marched in the rear. 1t was a very hot
day, and we had seventeen miles to march to
reach Clinton. The country is high and roll
ing. with many running streams, and was
thickly settled with fenced farms and good
houses, of which only few are now occupied.
On most of these farms were fine apple Or
chards. The timber is very heavy.
We had not travelled far before we discov-
cred tobacco strewed all along the road. The
veterans had taken the liberty to 60 into the
tobacco houses and seize the choice weed to
scatter it along the road We travelled this
day about an hour at time, generally hating
ave TO ten minutes.
At 81 o'clock, we were halted on the road
by a house that was occupied by woman and
several children Here the veterans had
asked for milk. The woman gave them all
they wanted and then they carried Off her Ia
BILE cloth and commenced kill ng her poultry,
and because she showed that she hated and de-
spise1 them for such coniuct, they took all
they could find to lay their hands on, carrying
off her furniture and robbing the smoke house
of all its contents This was all the robbery I
saw the first day. til ugh there were many
women. with their families of children, that
came down to the road side. crying as we
learned because the Union soldiers had taken
their last horses. These veterans never STOP
ped TO ask whether their victims were for the
Union or not. The State is represented in
Congress as q part Of the loyal Union, but
these veteran thieves took horses aud males
from everybody that had them making no diff
ference whether the owners were Union peO-
pie or not 1t being a very hot day. they had
an excuse for fal.ing out of the ranks, and, eX-
cept few houses distant from the road, there
was no house from Columbus TO Clinton they
did not enter. M .sstfs sg4,,+s.s 81 sss4tsr
We got into Clinton at 61S o'clock, and start
ed very early next morning for Felciana, %
miles distant, the Missouri regiment in adj
vance, the Tenth in the centre. This was also
q hot day. but we moved very fast 'ss,a
The veterans could not pass house without
going in aud taking whatever they fancied
We passed a laroe field where man was at
work at the farther side with a yoke Of oxen.
One of the veterans rode over on horse,
seized the oxen. hitched them TO wagon that
stood by the. side of the rood. and drove on
with alload of lazy veterans, s. .flsfss
T. Al noon the train was halted for dinner. Il
went 10 q house where good many Union sol
diers were assembled. and found that the bold
veterans had already been there, They had
taken The quilts from p6 .the bed, and even
broke open the secrsfaV end stolen AZ the
books. The fobf Of the house looked as II
the people were, indpstlipns, The old man
! tod me he had lived there twenty -one years
had always paid his taxes promptly and owed
no man aeen{ He xaa about 70 years old,
could plainly Zee IRE tefrS standing y he eyes
/ this robblng him. In an pppoelte rom wsre
/, three olen crying while apother vas disr
theted1Y demandirg ju1tice and redress This
|, whole aily we're cof4pt discooragd and