The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-01-12
Incidents Of Sherman'S March.

Sherman's march HIS fully exploded the
common error that the rebellion could be
starved cut; that the constant drain upon
the white working classes. to fill the armies
of the eontederacy would leave the ground
untitled, and the granerics untitled. Wher-
ever we moved, from Covington to Sayan.
nah, every plantation was abundantly stock
ed, and the barns grvaned under the corn
and wheat that the full harvest had produc
ed. Every farm house yard was decorated
with sweet potatoe pits and corn bins, witch
We're very thoroughly cleared out by the
men III their search for the ''staff of life"
II the counties through which Sherman's
column passed can be taken as basis upon
which to ground an estimate the Georgians
have furnished enough subsistence yearly
to feed fifty Thousand men. Every planter
pays titles to the government Con every
thing ralsed-a stipulated amount on every
negro on his plantation. Sworn statements
of the amount produced must be furnished
to the officers Of the government.
SO heavy are the taxes that on all plant
atoms the negroes are compelled to work
extra time to pay the expenses of clothing
them.
On Harrs's plantation near Covington,
and old grey-headed African informed me
that the hands We're worked fourteen hours
per day, and sometimes twenty, for amontt
at time. None of them get more thar
one coarse suit per year, to earn which they
must labor two hours later every day il
the year. They are usually found horribl,
clad, nothing to cover their bodies but rag
ged pantaloons and shirt, with patches rep
resenting all the colors of the rainbow.
An old colored fem lie one day approach
d Sle column an 0ntering into cover satier
expressed great surprise as to where we al
came from.
A wag informed her that old Lincoln haC
very productive field away up north, wher
he raised them at the rate of a million De
year.
Turning up her white eyes in astenish
ment she exclaimed:
'For de Lords sake, you don't say so
How does he grow emp
oh was the reply, st is very simple
He gathers up all the dead rebels from tn,
battle fields, plants them down in Massa
chusetts; after a while they begin to sprout
and just the moment they catch sight O
a chicken they make for it, when Lincoln
provost guard catches them and graft
them into the army" ss
''Bless ye, say so! Are you 'uns dea
rebels Z"
mo, We used to be- but now we're Ev
Yankees. I'm Bishop Polk who preache
down here in Dixie"
DE debel you are !" exclaimed the excl
ted wench And what are you dom dow
here? Come after misses Bishop and q
chien2"
''No, the children was the pro
fame reply live come to assist in wha
ing out of old JEFF Davis.
You'll hab to cotch him fust." was Il
quick response guess it's done gone job
well, well see said the soldier, Its a ra
between us and the devil, and may be Of
Nick will win the bet
shouldn't wonder. Dis niger do1
care neder," remarked the dusky matron,
she right wheeled and double quicked
back in the house again.
The sentiments of the people rarely fl
utterance even in the presence of Yanke
But when they do speak it is not in va
eulogy of the rebel army and the cause
which they are engaged They are brok
in spirits, and the naughty secession lad
who by force of ''arm' and tongue drove tn
brothers, sons and lovers into the army,
now as meek as singed kittens, and only
glad to smile upon good looking Iank
They all frankly admit that their eauseis
hopeless one; that subjugatiCn awaits tn
in the future, and all they now wish is
the storm to burst and pass; that peace W
them, crushed beneath the Yankee heel,
preferable to the present state of things.