The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-12-15
The Trials OF a Rebel Journal.

The Memphis Appea', once more is
sued from the city Of its original loca-
ton. gives the following humorous &c
count of its porilous travels during the
war;
"THr MEMrnis GnENADA--JAcKsoN
ATLANTA MONTGOMERY APPEAL. -
As this journal has been pretty well
advertised under the foregoing desig'
nation, it may interest some OF onr
readers con this side of the line to be
informed how it came to have so many
localities as its place of publication
Being then what is now called II rebel
sheet it left Memphis on the morning
Of June g. 1862, while the gunboat
fight was going on hotly III front OF
the CITY, and was, in short while,
REISSUE d ut Grenada, Miss On the
18th of November, 1862, that pleasant
little town having got into rather close
proximity TO General Grants head
quarters, who was seeking to make
the acquaintance of General Pember-
ton st Abbcville the Appeai retired to
jackson, the capital of Mississippi.
Here it continued until the 14th of
May, 1868, when Gems. Grant and
Sherman laid their plans to occupy
and possess that sung little city.
They thought they were about to
bag" the Appeai, beyond any perad-
venture, and their scouts had furnish
ed them with a copy Of that morning S
issue fresh and damp from the press
but they didn't.
As they came in one way, The Appeal
went out the other way, with full forty
rounds of shot and shell making a
"pother' over its head, before it could
get out of the way of those impatient
military commanders. The appeal
then, after issuing small extras, at
Meridian, for about week, cast its
lines in the pleasant places of Atlanta,
thinking to be both out of Grants and
Sherman way. But here again, on
the 10th of July, 1864, the last named
gentleman whom we take TO be of a
We Y restless temperament--gav un-
mistakable indications that he wanted
Atlanta likewise, and so the Appeai re-
tired to Montgomery, Ala, continuing,
however to issue extra slips from a
proof-press until the evacuation As
Gen Somebody's corps marched into
town on one side, the proof-press and
few cases of type retained to operate
it. went out ON dray on the other
and so Gen. Sherman and the AJpeql
parted for good We beli,vs lie went
of somewhere down in Georgia, and
we have since learned that he and his
men knocked printing Offices into pi
at terliable rate. oyerin South Caro-
lima. The Appeal resumed he regular
publication at Montgomery on the 70
of September, 1864, and continued e
entertain and instruct the denizens OF
"Dixie's land until about the 18th OF
April, 1865. when another fierce gentle
man Of the Federal military persuasion
took it into his head to ride fuilously
down through Alabama.
He gobbled up Selma, using it very
roughly, burning fonnderies, gun-fac
tories, and things generally Of the IS
c. brand of ownership, When it was
definitely ascertained that this modern
Assyrian with his cohorts of seven
shooting Spencer rnemen had fixed
his y0racious eve on Montgomery
that is to say, about the 18th o.
April, 1865 tho Appel' made room
for HIM by going to Columbus, Ga
From this time forward, the story /,
briefly told, Montgomery was occupied
without resistance, and Columbus cap
tured by Major-Gen. Wilson. after {
stout but Intellectual defence. The
materials Of the Office, with the excep
ton Of the press and Il few eases thai
head been forwarded TO Macon, wcr,
piled III the street and destroyed bl
order Of Major Gen Wilson. who ex
acted of Col Dill, one of the proprie
tors who was captured with the cap
ture of Columbus, a bond of one hun
dred thousand dollars not to publish
the Appeai during the war OF in defaul
to be held n prisoner. Luckily, 18Th,
war gaze om Soon thereafter, and tn,
APpeai, being now perfectly iron-claC
with paroles amnesties and pardons
IS on its feet again in robust anc
vigorous life"