The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-12-17
Tie Last pays Of the COnfcderaev-An
Account b, ~ Participant in the Closing


scenes.
Fr,rn the Ciucia rsa Enquirer
In your issue oi November %, l see ar |
account o. he last days OF the Confed |
er4cy. / couir butte thiS as my mite TO
full history Of tlat eventful month.
was a full member OF D.brelPs DIVISION |
OF Wheelers cavalry, and had some op
portuniues for knowing much OF what
was Transporting.
Our division had been selected to escori
Mr.. Davis from Greensboro TO Char Iotte
and leaving Battle Bulge. over the
Nruse River. we reached Greensbor'
about midnight of April Il, after wv
DAYS and half OF rapid marching. ron
the first time we were fully informed oil
the extent of our dsasters-ot the re
treat defeat, surrender, ""nlhlIatoh
General Lees great army-anu were lo'u
that we were relied upon 10 guard MT
Davis, his cabinet aud archives 10 Chaf
lotte, and keep Oft Shs rman, VINO Was
lowering upon our night hank. NTA'
evening As Mr.. Davis and General Breck>
| inridge rode through the division, at the
| head of the Government cortCge, they
ware welcomed with the most enthusl-
astio cheers.
We continued our march toward Omar
Iotte. Gen BrecklnrIdge-the Will ana
-
left ia upon the third morning, return
mo TO the army TO hold those consulta
lions with Generals johnson and Sher-
man. of which so much has been said
Perhaps the country may yet believe tnal
sherman. Johnson and breckenridge
we're better statesmen and truer patriots
han Seward and Stanton. Mr.. DAVIS
road near or at the head OF the column ali
the time: was always polite, attaoIe ana
accessible; seemed cheerful and resolute;
talked pleasantly, kindly and socially to
all who approached. Mr.. Benz AMIN and
General Cooper rode in an ambulance
Mr. Trenholm and family In another
,Jndge Reagan, Co.'s. Lubbock, OF texas
TAYLOR Wood and Preston Johnson always
rode near the President. Gen. Lawlon
J C17;ertermaster- General, General 6umer
chief Engineer, and Gen. st. johns WIN
- their attaches, Mr.. Mallory, Mr. Geo
Davis. and Others of less note, accomPanl
I'd the Presidential party. Besides zen
Dibrall's division, Gen. Geary, OF Soutl
Carolina, had small oody Oh nloun'eI
- men. some seventy five or one hundred
collected at Greensboro Tom the ueoli
4 of the Virginia cavalry.
At Salisbury we met General Echoi
nd staff of southwestern Virginia, an
rIO
who had run from X Edmond, LyncL
h,.rr AhIpodon. Western NoItn Carol
M and various parts of South Caroline
nan driven to a common centre by Gran
Charrap SLOVENIAN, Wilson ana roster
members of Congress, civil tuncuonarl
"a raf,1pees You may he sure, we ui
w soldiers who had borne the heat, ou
Grn and danger OF the war, maae gre
mort of the beloved post ohcer' u
.ib,Iedv shirt and black-coated gent1
SE who without horses and unused 10 can
,,fa were begging for mules, horses We
not attainable,) so that they might
comnanv US. Gladly would a klneo0
nave been given for a horse. A 'aS o
- x;ngdom was in as desperate a conhlu
AZ moor Richards was, and was not "ot
horse. For the first tune during
war we soldiers had reVer &c upon
gentlemen who had been seeking al"
ing soft places. :, H.; -;
O. II, hreU received word from Gene
E.ronson who with a small cavalry br
e. ade was at Charlotte, that Stonemah
H.. ,nnroaching Charlotte, and begging u
20 move on Immediately, when he q
rnarcbing all night and reaching IN
Co, Lotto ahont sunrise, to find that otoheu
ing ,yas not near the place, but had decor
our officers there and burned all She .
1T qes over the Catawba. Generel I cry"
- s1o,,ed ont of Charlotte as soon as
reached there, to Nation Ford, over
Catawha. the point where the rallr
and from Charlotte TO Columbia crossed
river. p..;I n,
About midday General Basil III
will with the remnant of Morgan's celeol'
oavaIrv-about five hundred-reac
- Charlotte from Chrlstlanourg. ="
General Echols disbanded his lnlaI
pr and abandoned his wagons ana af'iI
=, Christianburg. he ordered his cav
~ faIIow nm across the mountains
4, 1 ant Of Goneral Johnston. General Duke
table l,,da was dIsmounted, their horses o
en North Carolina, but they seized th'
DIFF ,illarv and wagon mules and rode
-KvFY hocla ed to Charlotte. few OF III
ley, men refused TO accompany him. ana
70 K eutucky with some hyntucky Ca
~ Who surrendered at Mount oterl
hut over one hundred under Lleuteh
colonel Diamond, OF THIS cavalry
norted to and accompanied luke
rre, eral Vaughn, also, with about tn[ee
20 dred of his brigade, marched win
- Fchols to Charlotte. SO that we
Of or near Charlotte, Dlbrelfs DIV
: G. consisting of his own brigade, unoe
mel McLemore, and Wilkins men
hrioade- under Colonel BreckInrl
sbont 800 fighting men General L
hrioade of Kentuckians, badly mou
five hundred Vaughn's lenneSS'
Pie5sOn hadlv armed and disciplined, three
bred; Ferguson's brigade OF Alaoa
swami Swami, and Mississippians, seven n lI.
heh0iS' ali , 500 men-a large part badly mo
and armed-gome of them dlsheai
HART. and demoralized. Mr.. DAVIS re
charlotte late that afternoon ana
The sneecb so falsely reported: Nv
,nts sIterward, General BreckiLrldge rel
ia W from Greensboro with Definite az
- 1-bat had occurred and been
,non between himself and General
FLIES, man. and the existence OF true
officially promulgated. &C., e
,tppt. ITnon the morning OF the Zotn Oh
i Cotton wa we're ordered to Nation Ford an
a Kaaaan' 80 cross the Catawba river. Alter
nearly twenty-four hours on the
,ba liver. we received OF ders to m
Mt wav of Yorkville and Unionvlie TO
AN1' b',yv@Duke's Brigade and Naut
move by Chesteyiile, Unionvliie al
rensviIie-sargts son to move oy
Dis, route High water, burnt oridge
made us change our route ana We
IAN, ,ame on ed Cokesbury after Duke, Vaug
''I E,.ouson had passed through; tn
&C., moved 10 Abbeville, where ali we