Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-03-22
From Sherman.
THE OCCUPATION OF FAYETTEVILLE

Fayetteville, N. c., March 10, l.90 p
m.-To-day we have added Fayetteville
to the list of the cities that have fallen
into our hands Hardee, who is said ia
have 10000 men, withdrew across the
river yesterday, and last night he was re.
ported en- route for Raleigh The rebels
skirmished in town and fired artillery on
the houses occupied by women and child
rem They burned bridge at this place,
and removed all the public stores by rail-
road they could. Gen. Sherman is here
and WELL Many men are wanting shoes
and clothing, yet the army never was in
better condition.
0. 0. Howard, Maj Gen.
Tribune and Herald correspondents with
Sherman's army furnish full accounts of
the march through South Carolina. At
Fayetteville, communication was opened
with Sherman from Wilmington by the
steamer Davidson, and while he was there
Gen. Dodge went up to confer with him
in reference to the crowd of negroes and
refugees following his army, and arrange
ments we're made to send them to Will
mington.
When Sherman was at Cheraw, S. c.,
he was threatened by Joe Johnston on
his left flank, and by Hardee upon his
right, but adroi.ly evading a simultan-
eous attack by these generals, which was
the only kind of attack they would hope
to make with success, he passed between
them, leaving them in his rear discounted
by his strategy. The Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle of the 18th instant states that
it is rumored that one of our (rebel) guer-
rillas has been tricked by Sherman, who
sent him bearer of dispatches with Or
ders from Beaurcgard to fall back to a
certain point The confederate officer fell
back to the point dcsigated before he
discovered the forgery, and that it was a
ruse of General Sherman so as to gain
time.
"THE BUMMERs."
The foragers of Sherman's army are
called "bummers." Abundant and
excellent supplies were obtained every
where. A hummer is an individual who
by favor of wagon master becomes pos
sessed Of broken down mule, or else
starts, if need be, on foot, in either case,
armed with his musket.
He makes his way into the euemy's
country, finds horses in numbers by the
help of the negroes, bitches q team to a
wagon, loads on it all the stores and sup
plies he can find in the nearest house,
mounts his negroes on the rest of the
horses, and returns with his spoils. He
never objects to gold watches or silver
plate, "if he can find them in swamp a
mile from any house" These men were
stragglers not in rear but in front Of the
army, and they went before it like cloud
being often 20 to 80 miles in advance Of
the head Of the column. They would
fight anything.
Three bummers together, would at any
time attack company of rebel cavalry
and under favorable circumstances would
disperse them and capture their booty.
With the exception of Columbia alone,
every town in South Carolina through
which the army passed was first entered
by the bummcrs At Chesterfield thew
we're two days and half ahead Of
the army, the whole corps having
congregated at this point. They rugged
up two logs for cannon, sent a flag ahead
to the town, which was occupied by de
tachment of Buffers division Of cavalry
and entered the town in grand procession
Of broken down mules, ragged hummer
and the Quaker guns. The coat.tails o
the rebels disappeared at one end Of tn
town as the "Do Boys" entered at tn
other.
T From the Southwest.
RED FL DISPATCHES PROM MOBILE.