Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-07-06
The DOings or Sherman's Bum
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Mack, the correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial, now tray
cling in the South, gives the follow
ing picture of tho traces Of Shcr-
mans bummors in Georgia:
Every five or six miles you pass
q big chimney, standing by the
roadside, to tell where house once
stood with herSand there lovely
garden in full blossom close by, and
if you ask tho natives what's the
matter, they'll tell you "that's whore
Sherman left his mark as he went
along" But, as was told on tho
train yesterday, the army itself did
nothing compared with what "the
bummersp did. "Did the bummcrs
call to see your" l asked q good
humored planter who sat near me,
as we passed the ruins of q large
machine shop. "They didn't see
me-" said he, ''for I was in Lees ar
my, but they called at my house and
you'd better believe they played hell
too. There were about twenty in
the squad. My wife was at home,
and they told her they wanted din
ner. She said she had some meat
and bread, which sho could give
them in q few minutes. They ask
cd her what kind of meat it was
said it was pork. "Pork be id"
said one Of them, eve don't como
down here to live on pork we can
get lots of that from the coulilissa-
ry; what we want is chickens, and
fresh bread and butter" They saw
some chickens in the yard and they
made the negroes catch them and
kill them and cook them. They
made them drive up some COWS for
fresh milk too. While they were
waiting for dinner, they went into
the parlor and one Of them played
the Star Spangled Banner-and
played it well, too, while the rest
sang it. One of the negroes told
them that some of our (rebeD SOL
diers wero near by. They asked
what kind of soldiers they were.-
The negro said they were some Of
the State militia. ooh, that's all
right" said one Of them; 1--WE don't
care a d--n for the militia; this lit
tie squad can whip regiment of
that sort. Don't be uneasy boys,
it's only the melish." So they stay
ed in the house amusing themselves
until dinner was ready.
They were very civil, my wife
says; didn't insult her at all; but af-
ter dinner they inquired after the
silver plate. My wife begged them
not to take it; but they said they
were bound to have il. Finally, as
my wife saw them carry it off, she
began to cry. The fellow who had
been playing the piano, and who was
quite gcntlemanly fellow in his
manner, seeing her cry, said to his
comrades, "Hold on boys, let's not
be too mean; let's leave this silver
stuff; we don't wantit." They put
down the silver, then; and one of
them proposed to compromise by
taking a spoon apiece. That's all
they took, except one fellow, who
said he could not compromise with
treason so cheap as that, and that
he was tired of drinking out of q
tin cup, as his tin cup leaked, he
would take silver goblet and call
it square. So he did. They were
fellows of very good taste, for they
carried off some of the best books
in my library. They tore things
upside down a good deal, but they
didn't steal so much after all. Some
of them were from Ohio and .somo
from indiana. As they were about
to leave the fellow who had strap
ped the silver goblet to his KNAPP
sack, said to my wife, "Madam war
is a dreadful thing" and they all
bid her good bye. He then told me
how some Of his neighbors Jared
most of them much worse than he
at the hands of the bummers. A
family living close by was robbed
of everything, and what wasn't car
ried off was broken or destroyed.
They took four thousand dollars in
gold and silver from one house and
two thousand dollars from another.
A short distance from his house
three men called at the residence
of an old lady who was living at
home with her two daughters.
They insulted the ladies grossly,
and behaved very indecently. Just
as they came up they tried to run
but were caught, and when the
militia found out what they had
been doing, tb y took them out to
the woods and hung them right up.
They were from New York.
Fair Young LADY, see some
BODY in the crowd outside waving