The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-05-29
THE GATE CITY,
ARMY CoRRE.rosDsncE.
MOBILE, Ala, May l2, 1865

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armies, and there seems to exist goot
feeling among all that have seen, from
the General Who sports his suit Of grey
with gold lace trimmings and brass but
tons, with . group Of young pelicans
looking up to their mother for something
to eat, shIch is more emblematic Of the
South at The present time than it ever has
been) to the dingy face and the worn.
dirty and uncouth uniform of the "high
private"
l am glad to see that our men are very
modest in their conduct towards these re-
pentant traitors, and neither display. BY
word or action, an. exultant spirit.
General Taylor, after arranging the
terms of equalization with Gen. Candy,
was frank to acknowledge that it left him
without a cent in the world, and asked
jokingly if he could not get to oversee
his own plantation, which is held and
worked by the Government. During the
conversation Taylor's body servant came
in. and Taylor called him by name and
said: "You have been waiting on me,
brushing my clothes, backing my boots
and doing errands for me for the last four
years. and now, the probabilities are that
in less than year will have to brush
your clothes, black your boots, ETC., and I
wish 10 know if you are going to treat
me as kindly as l have you?" l antici-
pate no trouble from the soldiers of the
disbanded armies, without they conclude
to make the rich nabobs who urged them
10 and made them fight their battles, suf-
fer COW in return, which seems but just.
The citizens throughout the State are
anxious for our armies to take immediate
possession and hold the country. for their
guilty consciences forewarn them of their
fate. They that sowed the seed of rebel
lion must expect to reap the rewards
Little did they expect to ask protection
from their enemies, to guard them from
the depredations of their own chivslric
sons and defenders of Southern rights.
SELMA.
Selma is a very pretty place, even after
the destruction of the government and
business portion of it. and there are nu-
merous pretty young ladies paradiug the
streets. carrying on their routing lips the
hatred they felt for Wilson's shell
hounds" one of them styled them. In
my stroll through the streets / met two
young ladies who were apparently patrol
iug the street, aud one of them addressed
me with. "Do you all intend to hold this
place p "Until further orders, Miss, or
such time as Se see fit to leave" "Well,"
saws she, IL am ready for any thing; since
Wilson's men were here they took every
thing but our senses and our houses. -
"Certnnly, Miss, the former would have
been no great burthen to them, and the
latter they could not eat or pocket, and
think they showed most excellent sense
in leaving them" She threw her head
over her shoulder and gave me sidewind-
ing gIauce which SCENE to say, "You
mudsisi. They then went their way.
no doubt aston.shed at the .ffron.ery Oh
an officer.
THE COTTON.
The cotton was not burned, and the re
turn feet IN charge OF Gen Pile collected
about TWO thousand bales, which was but
q small proportion of the amount that
NAV be collected.
Forrest sent squads of his cavalry to
burn the cotton along the river, but the
citizens would not permit it. They were
willing to take the memorandum receipts
given for it.
CAHAwBA.
I visited the pen or building at Cahaw-
ba in which our prisoners we're confined.
l, was large brick building, used, evil
dently, for a warehouse, with no floor or
windows, aud partly covered. Saw one
man ia The hospital who was sick when
the exchange was going on, and conse
qnently left there He was a skeleton
when saw him and insensible. Istooped
down close to bis bedside, and to my sur
prise | counted ten ''graybacks" under
bis chin, sspping the life blood from him,
and twenty FIVE upon his pillow. perambu-
lating around 10 search of prey. This is
not exaggerated. l will say for the hos
pital, however, that two other Of our boys
said they were treated well. The poor
victim to these vermin belonged to the
4th Kentucky U. s. Vols.
THE NEGROES
The negroes came to us by hundreds
and wanted to go with US, and most of
the able bodied had left the plantations,
leaving their families which must suffer,
for ell the mules and horses have been
taken from the planters, and they can
raise nothing, and the consequence is
those who cannot labor in the field are
driven from their homes. There is and
will continue to be . vast amount OF suf-
fering among this snd the poorer class of
people throughout the Southern States.
Gen. Smiths O6sh corps,) command
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