New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-05
SHERIDAN.
he Kind and Liberal Toward the Pnroied
Prisoners.
From Our Special Correspondent
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From Our Special Correspondent
HDous GEN. SHERDASs CAVALRY CoRrs
PtAcK's Asp WHITES STATION. SOUIH SIDE Z
RAILROAD VA, Monday. May ], lst5.
BE kind and liberal toward the paroled Rebel
prisopers BE guarded but not too suspicious of item
am daily touched to the heart by seeing these poor
homcsick bows and exhausted wandering about In
threadbare Uniform with scanty outfit of slender haver
sack and roll hung their shoulders seeking
tie nearest route home.
An occasional fortunate and careful one has more
or less plump knapsack bis back-iii may be con
sdered fortunate to have such additional encum
branee under the circumstances They generally wear
cae.worn AZ anxious look, by their lauguid played
ont manner admitting that they are yanqnsbed, and
by their looks silently appealing to the magnanimty Of
the iueshel vctors among whom the pass which, ON
glad to say is generally accorded.
Near these recognizing the usases Of soldiers they
now and then sit down. weary, hungry ard aihirsi,
and sometimes ask for water, that common co''ie's
boon Of nature but in their native pride poor fellows
though so hungry they hardly ever meution bread
This our brave, thoughtful boys frequently give
thom tears scarcely being restrained on either side
They sit awhile kindly spoken as reeonocd brothers,
which they are inquirng about the best facilities OF
getting 10 their homes by good Old Federal means, or
otherwise and then gathering up their scany outfits
such as they are they trudge along sometimes by the
old red clay wagon road, and sometimes by the more
direct railroads some nping from the effects Of chafed
feet aided by improvised cane, and falling behind
the main squad If there are more than two or three OF
them TO be waited for little ahead.
Most of these paroed prisoners that speak OF were
impressed into the Rebel service against their wills
They were poor men, and had interest in the Rebel
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compelled to leave their homes and families, and come
out and fight for the cause of the rich. influential
leaders who had brought the for their own per.
sonal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Many Of the poor fellows if they survive to get there
will find their humble homes desolatc with gaunteyed
want and proycry sitting either side Of the lowy
portal 1t is true that slenderwaisted. barefooted
children in cotton frocks and holow-eyed will ruD TO
meet them, and will clasp around Them and pull them
down and kiss them, and kiss them over again and
again in their wild JOY. and warm hearts and true as
ever beat in vrtuous womans breast. but bony hands
and tearfu sunken eyes will receive them at the door
No luxurious meal Will be spread such will greet
our brave boys in their Northern and Western houes
when they return. And after all their four year hard
fighting aud deprivation, in the forced service Of am
bilious bnd men. these poor returned soldiers Of the
backs to open ont before their starving families to
cite visions soor to be realized OF luxury aud plenty
no. not even cent Of current money viii they have TO
buy bread for those dependent upoa them.
ArPEAL FOR THEIR RELIEF.
Now that our glorious old Union IL restored TO pros
poctvely much more than ts former beauty aid gran
deur that our vast rivers and railroads are beginning
10 be hroneed with reconced brothers and sisters and
IL. upta
that the cotton and sugarcane plantations and orange
groves Of the sunny South are in full com
mpuiou again with the corn and wheat belds
of the North, that our lately pentup
commerce is beginning to bound and leap and rumble
again from the Pcnobscot 10 the Rio Grande. and now
that the white winged ships, with aromatic cargoes
from every land and cline, soon TO nestle again ~
our every port North and South. let US have grand
Jubilee, aud let the bounty Of tho North and
OF tho nation be poured for the. current
advanced season from thousands Of cornucopas at the
thresholds Of all who have been stricken or impover'
shed by the war. North and South without regard to
section class or color antecedenis and thus let
glorious bond Of reconciliation love and Union be
woven over the land that shall be eternal as the peo-
rlc il shall mite and the continent it shall envelop
LET THE TWO COMMISSIONS BIZ TIE DISTRIBUTORS.
Let the Sanitary and Christian Commissions, as well
as the Quartermastcrs and Commissary Depart
ments of the Government. be the distributors
Of tho Norths and the Nations bounty. l know
what these Commissions are in the field, ard
what their men in the field, North and South,
They are the 10 handle yOnr cOrnucopias, gentle
men AZ the master iremcn handles his hose. and with
your bounty for the current broken season, TO bring
about such Of broheTy love and national pros
perity as VIII repay you, some thirty some sixty and
some an hundred fold
What rich and entcrprzing appreciation OF the glo'
rions American Union restored will put the ball In
motion lLLiSoiAs