The weekly union record. [volume] (Oroville, Calif.) 1864-1866, 1865-12-30
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The Trials of a Rebel journal.

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issued from the city of its original loca.
ton, gives the following humorous
account Of its perilous travels during
the war:
TIE Memphis Grenada Jackson
.7tlaata-. montgomery .4gpeai.-As this
Journal has been pretty well advertised
under the foregoing designation. it may
interest some Of our readers on ''this side
Of the line to be informed how it came
to have 50 many localities as its place
Of publication. Being then what's now
called ''rebel" sheet, ii left Memphis
on the morning Of the 9TH of June, 1862,
while the gunboat fight was going on
hotly in front of the city, and was, in a
short while, reissued at Grenada, Miss
issippi. On the 29th of November,
1862, that pleasant little town having
got into rather close proximity to Gen.
Grants headquarters, who was seeking
to make the acquaintance Of General
Pemberton at Abbeville, the Appeal
retired to Jackson, the Capital of Miss
issippi. Here it continued until the 14th
of May, 1868, when Generals Grant and
Sherman took it into their heads to
occupy and possess" that snug little
city. They thought they were about to
bag the Appeal beyond any peradven-
ture, and their scouts had furnished
them copy Of that mornings issue,
fresh and damp from the press-but
they didn't. As they came in one way,
the Appeal went out the other way,with
full forty rounds of shot and she'll
making pother over its head, before it
could get out Of the way of these impa-
tienr military commanders. The Ap-
peal then, after issuing small extras at
Meridian, for about a week, cast its
lines in the pleasant places of Atlanta,
thinking TO be out of both Grants and
Sherman's way. But here again, on
the Goth Of July, 1864, the last named
gentleman-whom we take to be of q
very restless temperament-gave un-
mistakable indications that he wanted
Atlanta likewise, SO the Appeal retired
to Montgomery, Alabama, continuing,
however, to issue extra slips from a
proof-press, until the evacuation. As
General Somebody's corps marched into
town en- one side, the proof-press and
the few cases of type retained to operate
went out on dray on the other-and
so General Sherman and the Appeal
parted for good. We believe he went
off somewhere down in Georgia, and We
have since learned that he and his men
knocked printing offices into pi at a
terrible rate over in South Carolina.
The Appeal resumed its regular publ
cation at Montgomery, On the Goth of
September, 1864, and continued to en-
tertain and instruct the denizens of
"Dixie's land' until about the 10Th of
April, 1865, when another fierce gentle
man of the Federal military persuasion
took it into his head to ride furiously
down through Alabama. He gobbled
up Selma, ,using it very roughly, burning
foundries, gun factories, and things
generally of the &C. 81 brand of own
ership. When it was definitely ascer-
tanned that this modern Assyrian, with
his cohorts Of seven-shooting rifemen,
had fixed his voracious eye on Mont
gomery-that is to say, about the 18th
Of April, 1S65-the Appeal made room
for him by going to Columbus, Georgia.
From this time forward, the story is
briefly told. Montgomery was occupied
without resistance, and Columbus cap
tured by Major General Wilson, after
stout but Intellectual defense. The ma
terials Of the Office, with the exception
Of the press and few cases that had
been forwarded tc Macon, were piled in
the street and destroyed by order of
Major General Wilson, who exacted of
Colonel Dill, one of the proprietors, who
was captured with the capture Of Col
umbus, bond Of one hundred thousand
dollars not to publish the Appeal during
the war, or, in default, to be held
prisoner. Luckily, "the war" gare ont
soon thereafter, and the Appeal, being
now perfectly irOnclad with paroles,
amnesties and pardons, is on its feet
again, in robust and vigorous life.
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