The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1865-11-24
Travels of a Rebel rress.

THO Memphis ArrRAI- which has lei a vagr,nt
h's during the war /, once more sAued at i,s old
TlAcs of publication, and tes briefly aud bumor.
ously Nc story o. its wanderings;
Being Nen what Is now called 'rsbel" sheet
1t leh Memphis On she morning ~ juno 0, 1862,
while tho gunboatfght was going on hotly IN front
Of the city, and was, In Ehort whils rsissusd at
Grenada, 'sIssippi. Ou the 2gth Of November,
1862, that pleasant little town having got into
rather close proximity to General Grants head
quarters, who was seeking 10 make the scquant-
snce of Gen. Pembcrton a. A1beyille, Ihe ATRIAL
ret red g. Jackson the capital Of Massslppl Here
t continued until the Ian Of MAY, 1888, en-
Gems Gran, and Shermsn took II into ihsir heads
10 'Dccupy and pos1rss" tat snug Htc city.
They thought they wore about 70 bag" the Ar.
Pal, beyond any per.dventurc, and their scouts
had furnished them With . copy 0f that
mornings issue irosh and damp from the press-
| but they didn't. As ihoy came In ono way, the
ArtEAL went out tno other way, with full forty
rounds OF shot snd BheU making a potheT
over iil head, before IL could ge, out Of tho
wav OF those impztient II ilitAry commanders. The
AITrAL then, Ltcr ying small sxuAs at Meridian
iprahou week,cast Ia limos IN the pleasant places
of Atlantis, thinking 10 be out Of both GiknIs and
Shorman's way. Bt here a-a'n, on tho Gosh Of
July, 1864 the last NAMED gepuomAn-whOm We
take W te Uf very restless teniI cramoni-gAye
IN mi stakabe indications that he wanted Atlanta
hkewiscan 70 the APpEAL rotiI oil to Montgomery,
Ala continuing, however, to issue extra slips RON
the prool-pteBs uptl the evacuation. As General
Somebody's corps marched into town, ono side,
TIE proof 81, aud the few Of type Tsls ned
to operate IT, went out on drAy at the olher-lnd
| ~ General Suermsn AMI she APPRAL parted for
good. We believe he went OF somewhere doSn In
Georgia, and wO have since leAruei thst he and
his men knooked prutins othces into pi At ter
ribio rate, over In s,u'h CIrohua. Tho ArrEAL
iesued It's regular publication a. Montgomery ou
Ihr 1oth OF September, lNpt and cont nued 30 en-
tsrtaln and insltuct the C,u1ouH ~ "Dxie'a land"
unt!l about tho l2Ih OF April, 1875, when smother
horc. gentleman ut the FcIerAl mlhtsry persuasion
took u INTO his head ~ ride hiuousy down
trouRh Alabama, lie gobbei mp SSlms using Il
| very roughly burning fouudrirN gun factories,
AAd tulh- geucTnlly Of tho -. e." brand ~ own
erhhlp, When II Wa def Iilely AscerIained that
MS in"dern A-8yrisn With hs cohorts OF seven
| sAo'nnS Spsncrr rilsucn hSd nKsi his yurSc.ous
tlc cu Montgomery y-,.At 10 ~ say, about the 1lh
| ni Aprir lob5--tAe ArriAL made room for hun by
| guinE to Columbus, Ga. From ihiH Nme for@arI,
ILo H"ry IA briehy sod. Montgomery was occI-
| l"td WITHOUT Resistance, aud Columbus captured
| o., hD zen Wilson, alter stout OuI Intellectual
| d'iehce. The materials OF the 9th c, with the eX-
ccploh oi TIE pt'ss Aad few cases that had Dveu
i"T"ard q 80 Aacou, were piled IN tho sITeeA sld
| destroyed W order oi MsIJr Gen. Wilson, who
'Nac'ed OF Col D.ll, one Of No propuoiors, who
was csp'utod with tie capture OF Columbus, .
bond of one hundred tLousAud dollars not 10 pub
hsh 'hs hPfsAL dunng the wIr or, 10 default 70 be