The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-12-23
SHBKMAN'S MARCH THROUGH
... GEORGIA.


The people Of Georgia who aided Mr..
Jefferson Davis to" SOW the wind " have
already reaped bountiful harvest of whirl-
wind, if the accounts given in the newspa-
pers concerning General Sherman's march
are anything like true. A correspondent
Of the Macon Confederate, writing from
Mlledgeville, says:
The columns visiting Milledgeville composed
the Fourteenth and Twentieth corps, and it is
thought numbered some twenty thousand
muskets, with corresponding artillery and sew.
eral thousand wagons. These wagons were
mostly loaded with provisions, the army sub
sisting on what they found on their way in the
country. They spread desolation broadcast
taking everything on their way in the breadth
of about 20 miles. Corh, fodder, meal, flour,
horses. mules, hogs cattle, sheep, poultry of
every description, servants that could be en-.
ticed or forced OF, and these in great numbers.
The last of the army left on Friday forenoon,
destroying In It's rear the bridge over the Oco-
nee at this place. having previously burnt the
arsenal with three thousand stands Of arms In
1t, blown up the magazine and burnt the rail-
road depot. The penitentiary was burnt bv
some of the convicts said to be the women.
AS your city Ihas been spared, we hope some
method may be adopted by which the dis
tressed with US may be supplied with prOvi-
sions, as the community are left without food
or means of transportation.
We need not undertake to describe the
Scenes of the past week. Gvl gront they may
never be repeated.
A correspondent of the ssme paper,
writing from Clinton (between Macon and
Milledgeville), says.
Many Of US are utterly ruined-hundreds of
our people are without anything to eat-their
stock of cattle and hogs are killed; horses and
mules with wagons are taken Off-all through
our streets and commons are to be seen dead
horses and mules-entrails of hogs and cattle
killed, and In many instances the hams were
only taken-oxen and carts taken away, 80 that
we are not able to remove the offensive matter
our school houses and most of the churches
burned-Capt. BOmer's beautiful residence in
ashes, together with everything else of his that
could be found, destroyed. He was from home
Atrocities most heinous were committed
Morgan's tannery, with quantity of govern
ment leather, destroyed, and his family, like
many Others deprived of all4ood.
A writer in the Augusta Constitutionalist,
describing the effect of Sherman's passage
through Warren and Glasscoek counties,
says: &c.,. ...
Unfortunately our people on that long line
of travel, and in wealthy country, failed to
get off their horses and mules these supplied
the places of the worn out horses in the chase
and none were lett for the pursuers. Again
the enemy, after resting and feeding their stock
out of the abundance of the barns and cribs,
destroyed the balance by fire, leaving but little
for Wheeler; but Notwithstanding these great
disadvantages, on he pressed with great speed
and energy, from the first battle ground to the
last point arrived at by this party. The coun-
try was one vast scene Of desolatiOn and ruin !;
in many places nothing but dwellings are left
upon the farms. One lady remarked to US
that she had not q mouthful of provisions left
and this was but the day before the abode Of
luxury and wealth!
1t is shame to US that few squads of these
thieves and robbers should be permitted to
traverse every corner and cross road In this
wide belt of country with impunity. Fifty res.
olute, armed men could have done much, but
were not to be found, not even for tho defence
of their own homes.