The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-03-11
The Ep1ssel of WfnkWeazel. the
nsnternssl Relative ON the Moth.
er's Side to Mr.. JED Davis, Es.
Guire. and President of the Sin.
ken Hopes crthe Soufhern Shiv.
elry.
State OF DEsPoNDENCY,
Eah C{)tOcih 1Sf5.

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Feb 20tooth 1865.
MY DEAR Coz: I write this to let you
know We are al, in the orfullest gloom, and
darkest surhodens, over the condishuns of
things in gine-al, and yourn IN perticular: !:
and hope these few lines may find You in
joyen the same CRATE blessens.
was in CRATE hope my good coz, yon
would be able 70 hold on and make man
Of yourself. You know aunt Kizzy always
sed you would come to .somethln, aud
though. now was the time Watched with
gra:est keer for you all along from the time
the shiveralous Beauregard with his little
hand full Of 8 thousand in the fite, and 4
thousand in the reserve, captured fort sum-
tur, with her garrison Of 7ty starving men =
munitions Of war et cetterv. I felt my
family pride come up right away when I
ble, daring and soldierly conduct of his
men, and especially when ! saw your com.
pliments to Mr.. Lincoln in the follower il.
limitable ard poetic etrains- f2s
With our paxon and petard
We send you our Beau.7eCard."
Think sez TO aunt Kizzy now we are in
for il, and Cozzen JEFF will be The greatest
man in the nashun ard we viii all by him
Oe great too. ] watched every movement
from that time and when you sent the Feds
from Bull Run like so many Gilpins !
thought I'd eust, for was away here you
know where ! didn't dare 70 give ven. TO
my feelens. Then the Feds sent the young
NeapcleOn to look after matters on the Po-
tomac, and you b0oed him of with black
chuneks,. SEE agin, II that amt geten the
ced wood or em you may shute me. SO it
went for good while, for .beeause you
know we got the start, for 6u-en all of old
Dllnd Bucks administration we were steal.
en- arms and money ct cettery ard we held
them pretty leve., and when the start We
got was amost gore we got up the Golden
Circle, Sons Of Liberty, ct cettery, and was
doin smashen business gittin lo!s Of DEM
ocrats TO jine us, and though we couldent
81. any hardly Of the prsyeu community to
jine as Bro. OlGs &, Co determined 70 start
u democratic church, but il was 70 &C. some
how and the thing kinder Civ out. ]. give
il as my opinion howsomever, that II Eing.
ham and Company kAdent 90. skeered and
tp-ned States evidence, if they had stuck
TO what they said frs: like Joe Mcdonald
and others We would have got along swim.
ingly. But as soon as .heeye OF Gov. Nor
ton saw the grass shake, he was right into
it, and these fellers come poppin out like
skeered rabbits, and that le: the cat out Of
the bag, and that also made EN- smell q
mice at Chicago. So after all the labor Of
Vallandigham. Dcdd & &C, all. all was lost:
interpreted, 1.-THE best laid schemes O. mice
and men gang aft aglee.' ea
Troubles come not alone, Aunt Kizzy
used to say, you know. So il seems with
our cause. Our stolen meney is all gone,
long ago. Our brilliant victories, we used
to gain, are au :urrea:to defeats. Sherman
marches right through the. heart of the
ConfedeYacy withouilet or hindrance.-
Hood thought TO gobble up the handful
left behind, and march to the Ohio; but he
got sent back with flea in his ear, into
Alabama, hors GlH cOnsbGt--that i, battered
up like dray.horee by,a cruel driver
Savannah falle, and big Christmas pres
ent OF our cotton to Old a be, and now. 70
cap the climax, Columb bia is theirs, and the
shiveralons Beauregard .'snuffs the ba tile
from afar" and runs away, while the enc
my is yet a hundred miles of. Couldn'.
ne have found last ditch in Charleston
Perhaps he has read, efdsn ~ Id. {
elhat lights ard rnns away
May live p fgnt anotnes day,
Now, my dear Coz, # Grants stol. is sc
lite on tue thsos. Of Richmond that Lee
can't 80 TO help the suffering Carolinisns
my opinion is, the cakes Gpngh. Gran
and Sherman will play tie wolff huAt with
t'yos. aEd you will ind yourself IN .igh,
| squeeze. Ieoken over the whole ground
III be- jimswizzled. my Gear. JET, II The
| case dom; look EIlioGs. You nave hac
your fast days and all that, but I :ell yor
If yon don't whip Sherman 8 army, IFS al
over and that pretty. .dreckly.
Yours II you succeed, f. 9gs' .qs
| - PETER W1NKWRAzLR.
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