The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-01-07

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severest terms, aud declaring that hence
forth any one found guilty of such act
should, upon conviction thereof, be shot
4 few days after a man was found engaged
In such work. was arrested, and only es
capped being shot because the Colonel of BIZ
regiment had failed TO have Gen. Howard
order read to his command.
Foraging, in Gen. Towards command al
least, was reduced to a system. Each reg.
imens every morning detailed its foragil2
party who went out under the command O.
q commissioned officer, who was held re-
sponsible for the conduct Of the men I'm
der his command and all foraxing on pr.
| vate account was strictly forbidden. That
acts OF plunder:ng were sometimes COM
| mitted have no doubt. But had any one
been detected III such an act, Eave Just as
little doubt that he would laave been shot.
So much for cur vandalism. | oEgn. to
add that we had also regular detail OF
cotton-burnars, Under the command O:
commissioned officers, who were instructed
to burn al the cotton, cotton mills, tacto-
ries, &C., and all others were forbidden to
do any such work.
THE TRACK OF VAR
= large amount Of cotton and n.a.v cot
Congresses, gins, &c, were burned on our
march, and al tie crossing Of The Ocm i gee
river, we found a fine f.oUr;ay nil! with q
large quantity OF flour ready III sacks, also
quite respectable cotton factory which
gave en-. ployment to some two hundred
girls, most OF them believe from New
England Both the mill ard the factor
were destroyed, as i was evident they were
supp Wing the rele! army. Tie PROPRIETOR
as well "a the females plead hard TO have
the factory spared. Ike man even affirm
ed that re had done 10 work for the rebels.
bis establishment was si.,I
OF evidences to tie contrary. He went
when tod that tcrl.ec importantly vas
useless
The 18th and 18th Corps ,aoved from. the
crossing oft!se CcGu.gee at the Seven Is.
.ancs, IN the direction of Gordon 81 In
significant v.iiage AT the Junction OF the
Nllledgevil,e and Savannah, or more Cor
rectly, the M.l!edgevi.le and Central Gecr-
ga railroads. AT the crossing OF the river
the 18th and 18th shifted position. and the
10Th was thrown on the right. We reache.
Gordon on Nov. I'D. con our right. toward
Macon. k:!lpatrick had q brisk skirmish
VITA Wheeier's cavalry, driving the rebels
back towards Macon. We had one killed.
snd about thirty slightly wounded, who
we're carried along in our amhulances. /
AT Gordon We got hold OF Macon pape-
u tie previous day. It was evident that !
hey Thought the capture OF Noco- was tie
principal Object of the expedition. Their
row IS were perfectly frantic. II was evil
'eht rom taeir own showing that had Ma
on uaen "a our programme. we had BIZ.
title else 70 do than march in and take il.
hough the war!ike Beauregard was there
. person, and Appealed TO the c,,i-ens NEST
ranticaiiy to rouse TO the rescue OF their
ity They must have felt a great re.ie.
when they found that we had not the least
dea Of giving them call.
but before they found out their mistake
ur two Corps had pitched their camp o,;
= II toF . 81 81
'ext morning, some twenty miles of rail-
cad lay twisted. distorted, burning track
i ruin. In tee meantime Sherman. NOV
ny along with the 18th and Goth Corps On
he left, entered Nil.edgevil,e without. on
'os.t!on, burned the public buildings there.
ogesher with Gov. Browns house at Can
On "aAe k!l.parica's cava.ry played hav-
c wit. the railroads generally.
The wao!e country was perfectly ran;c.
tricken. No~, for the first time, they
eeined to suspect that Sacauaah--1o, No.
n.e-was the point we were aiming at
tafdee was sent post-haste to Savannah.
y aee.er was ordered 20 hang upon our
lank aud rear and barrass US ia every pos
lhle way. The citizens along our line of
na.ch we're iinpiored to cut down trees,
nToF up barricades, remove all forage OF.
I ou- way, and many other silly things.
Which only a chagrinei and out.w;.te,i
oMnander, as Beaurega-d found himself.
roui0 have given utterance to. The bel,i-
ose Wheeler took good care neve. to come
FitEin an unhealthy distance of either
ront flank or rear. \ portion of bis COM
iano once' ana only once, pouncad upon
icket party aad captured a few men. but
othing like the number OF his raganuifius
ga:ch we captured during our march. And
TAR were the people unmindfui of their
uty that we found no. a single tree falI sd
cross our road IL. We got in the vicinity
I Savannah.
ARMY SUBSISTENCE
~ marching each division upon a sepa.
ate road, we found an abundance o. forage
Or the whole army, man and beast Eayer
Fas such march made with SO little cost
D the government. Never u march made
= wien an army lived so Su1nptuoasf,y.-I
.ou must remember tina. " hen we got be
oEd JoIesboro we entered upon a region
ever before traversed by either army
se found corn and fodder, (which is al
.ays gathered n this country by stripping
re p !. q. and binding them in bundles,) /,
aus III tie saeaf and oats ,hreshed. hogs.
hicAens, turkeys, geese, sheep, horses, cat
e. suga., bacon, no .asses, and an endless
!ahtity OF vans, he very sight OF which
ou.d make al epicUres mouth water.
nr com man: ate Of vans, fresh pork, and
eD.try, III, Ike tne Old Tsraelites il al
lost come out o! the nostrils. i
Although we have t-aversed over 300 ,
.ifes, our horses aud mules, with the ex-
option OF a few sore backs scarcely show !,
lat they have seen service. Indeed they i
al not half SO much to eat before we
arted az they had during the march. /
eed hardly say that the health of the men
IS been unprecedented, and their spirits ,
suberaut !
We (i.e. he 10Th Iowa eft one man at
too low 10 proceed further. He |
as left ct his own request. as the only t
lance fer bis life. His name was Brouse., I
Co. /. Another, one Of our new re- {
'uits, named Mulnix, co. d, died ofpneu- |
lonia, and was buried by the way. A few
hers we're on the sick list, but with occa- {
onal rides in the am bulance came through I
lfely. Ii
DEsTRucTToN or ANIMALS, &C.
By captures. foraging, and the addition !
some horses and mules thatwere worth
ss in the start, or whose backs had become
70 sore for service, it was found necessary I
the crossing OF the Ocoaee river to dis
ose of the worthless incUmb-ance. Seye- "
Il wagons which bad now become unneo<1
ssary, were burned, and some 500 horses ,
nd mules shot. This was done to keen ,
lem out Of rebel hands. Another INSTALL !