The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-02-03
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unmrm eg,tgD. they wcv welcomed
with the most enthusiastic rlcofs.
w. continued our march toward
/ Charlotte General lIrcckinridu
! The will and brains of The govern
mmt Ia ils lat day lon ul upon
lhe third morning, returning 10 the
army to bold those consultations with
GoncrnI4 johnson and sherman ~
which 90 much hna boru mid Per
hapa the country may set believe
that Sherman, Johnston, aud Brock
nridpc were better statesmen and
tuer patriots than Seward aud Stan
ton. Mr. Davis rode near or at the
head of the column all the time; was
always polite, alablc, and accessible
seemed cheerful and rcsolute; talked
pleasantly, kindly, and sociably to
all who approached. Mr.. Benjamin
and General Cooper rode in an am
bulincc; Mr.. Trenholm and iamil,
in another. Judge Reagan, Colonel
Lubbock, Of Texas, Taylor Wood
and Preston johnson always rod,
, near the President. General Lawton
r Quartcrnastcr General, General Gil
, mcr, Chief Engineer, and Genera
/, st. Johns, with their attcchecs, Mr.
I Mallory, Mr. George Davis, an,
. others OF less note, accompanied th'
=, Presidential party. Besides Generp
I Dibrclls division, General Gcary, o
c South Carolina, had a small body o
mounted men, some seventy-fve o
= one hundred, collected at Greensboro
4 from the debris Of the Virginia cav
airy. ~
: At Salisbury we met Genera
: Echols and staff, ofSbuth-westerl
Virginia, and various staff, post an,
iurloughed officers, who had rul
from Richmond, Lynchburg, Abing
don, Western North Carolina, an,
!, various parts of South Carolina; me
= driven TO q common center by Grant
. Sherman, Stoncman, Wilson, an
= Foster; members of Congress, civ
u functionarics, and refugees. Y0
: may be sure, we dirty soldiers VIII
: had borne the heat, burden and dan
I ger of the war, made great sport {
: the beloved '"post" officer, til
: "bile" shirt and black-coatcd gentry
= who, without horses and unused I
! camp life, were begging for mule
= (horses were not attainable,) so thi
. they might accompany us. Gladl
. would kingdom have been give
I" for horse. Alas our kingdom vi
7 in as desperate a condition as poo
: Richards was, and was not worth
y horss. For the first time during Il
: war, we soldiers had revenge upc
- the gentlemen who had been scekir
= and filling soft places.
~ After moving across the Yadki
II river, General Dibrell, received VOL
y from General Ferguson, who, with
u small cavalry brigade was at Cha
= lotte, that Stoneman was approachiI
y Charlotte, and begging him to mo-
= on Immediately, when he did, marc
: ing all night and reaching Chariot
about sunrise, to find that Stoncmi
was not near the place, but had d
y ccived our officers there and burn
- all the bridges over the Catawl
~ General Ferguson moved out
Charlotte as soon as we reached the
Df to Nation Ford, over the Catawl
the point where the railroad frc
cd Charlotte to Columbia crossed {
&C. river.
About midday General Basil Dul
a with the remnant Of Morgan's &C
Of brated cayalry-about FIVE hnndr
m reached Charlotte from Christian
: burg. When General Eclols d
ly, banded his infantry and abandon
ly, his wagons and artillery at Chr
tiansburg, he ordered his cavalry
,ur follow him across the mountains
nd General Johnston. General Duk
brigade was dismounted, their hor
Z, being in North Carolina, but Il
rth seized the artillery and wagon mu
and rode barc-backcd TO Charloi
Il 4 few Of Dukes men refused to
aid company him, and came to kcntuC
xty with some Kentucky cavalry, v
Gin surrendered at Mount Sterling;
/ to over one hundred under Lieutcn
the Colonel Diamond, Of this cayaI
reported to and accompanied Du
hat General Vaughn, also, with ab
cry thrc hundred Of his briga
Iich marched with General Eohols
ove Charlotte. Dibrelps division, G
for sisling Of his own brigade, un
Colonel McIemorc, and Villa
Kentucky brigade, under Col,
1 It Brcckintidge--abcut 800 fght
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