Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1864-11-22
rrom the shenandoah.
How we are Re1roring the Union

The following letter is from a cores
po"dent Of that superlatively loyal journ-
althe New York EUening Post. Read it
freenen. and rec how brsv.ly the work Of
'reetoring the Uhion' gues on under Lin.
elias policies. The same course of treat
msn', so long as abolitionism controls the
WAT aud bars all Efforts for On honest peace,
must be apl lied TO one million square mile
Of territory south OF the Ohio. H"w long
10 che job likely to require for it's complies
toni
MARTINsBURG. Va Oct 20. 1864.
A visit 10 this town since Sheridan he.
gan Lie operations in the Shenandoah Val.
les is peculiarly interesting. The place is
EoW hpla as military pos, by our forces,
and ilsspnpnlasion is largely increased BY
the arrival q rei0eees from at pafts al
the Willy. Originally it contained be-
tween three AID hour Thousand inh Abitants.
Yesterday afternoon alter obtaining quar-
ters through the assistance Of some m rlsa
~ friends, ga llied out for look at the
town.
A PICTURE QUE SCENE.
Darkness was near at hand, and the
sight was pic uresque 10 the extreme
| Over q space # fifty acres or mure, we're
spread in unique clusters. hundreds Of
J families il the VAlry OF the Shenandoah.
| The government had furnished them with
] the soft. hltumtn' Us CumSerland cal,
which abtundr in this region. end each
! ! tile tsmIlp had ghttds pile which burn.
! 4,
| Gre; aud rou'd It were grruped The f,w
ARTICLES Vt hruseh"ld gear. which like the
children OF rstl they had carried with
! them from out ii Egypt
They we're ecattered over chests, IN the
! lee of bureaus ar hehind barbados or ts-
! bles, covered with old quits or tartered
blankets, with nothing tut the angry sky
above their heads, ard the tl-ak cold
wind WhIsting ar und them; the women
while children OF tRrdAr years, often with
bahes at their breast; the y ung girls and
b. VS., anG feeble old men-f"r there were
20 y urg or shls men in their grrur-
covered over the ftuI blaze Of these
fires.
Ore woman nursed Little babe careful
ly wrapped in an old shawl, and her
daughter at her eide held snother Just
cd ut as small. | asked her-fr thsy
we're not displeased at Questions. sni
waited for no intr"duction-'If the babes
we're tVIRs' Yes,' said she. mir e weeks
DID, and she screened the wind firm the
face of the cb Is with her shruldeT: we
away at time. Ne ard my children came
with them
How many children have YOUR said
Four children, cir; my eldest girl i,
tWeve.'
Where are you gningP
We d,.n't know, sir
The country was lighted % with frps
and the smoke and the dampness r. q ct 4
the light 'Ill IL seemed that a vast city wal
spread Ground. l strolled from group u
group
Sh TERED ny me old boards pilpC
against the ruins of q brick wal stum
bled on ths frst case e. 'rDiEcseenation'
ever saw. Facing the FIRE stood bIacI
Congo man herculean prep"rt ons. dang
ling IN bic arms beautiful blue eyer
child, with curling auburn rIng'ets. Tn,
DELICATE suiri'uelIe look of the chili-whirI
was about two years Uld--aurscted my at
tentinn.
! presume it had been his masters auC
ask ID him h, N he beloa ged To?
Cl,nel Grey was my master, sir; be
lOrgpd t. der rebel army. he dro. sur
VIII SAID |. how came you to bring
away his child z
DIS is my child, master-my own child
SIR Dere's nv wife and my other child
rem, sir;' and, sure enough. there ct hi
side sat q woman rerf-eAy white pre-
suned she was Of the 'puo- white class
She Was nursing little mulsttO babe ant
two Other children of variIns shades wer
playing With the fire; aud this com letet
the family.