The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1871-09-23
A Noble Revenge on Ger.
Sherman.
MEMPHIS, TENN. 1874

OIL; arbcleS oy q MfeoEGza taay,s
under the captiQR of SIN and Oh
Of the Lines.n The hast numbsl
in which she describes the destrut'
ton of Cassvilfe recalls 10 mr.
mind the feeling I had in Septeu,.
Der, 1868, when. l saw the thou.
sa&ds Of hopeless sick women ana
children at Lovejoy's who had been
driven out of Atlanta, and tumblsd
out of the cars, without any friend.
ly face to appeal to. l was d.
scribing the scene to an old aruy
friend whom / had not seen for
many years, and he too had his
story to relate of Sherman's bar.
barity, and the sweet revenge thst
came to him not long after tia
war was over. Said he:
1 was a surgeon in the Confed.
crate army. When | left. Mem.
phis to join the army was Ioblis,
ed, of course, to leave my wife
and two little boys, who were aged
respectively five and sevea, 70
take care of themselves. I deyo-
ted myself with great earnestness
to the cause, aud my wife, like
other southern women, sympa-
thized with me. gained, / SUP
pose, some prominence, as my
wife and children were singAd
out by Sherman, when he occupied
Memphis, for his especial hate,
He sent them over the Mississipi
river, and turned them adrift b
the woods of Arkansas, without
food and without any clothing
except what they had On, aud
issued al order that any boat
which should dare to take them
down the river would be coIfscas.
ed. There they remained; IN
what state of anxiety you we'll
can imagine, until they were found
by an old family negro who had
managed to elude tue sentinels in
order to go to their relief. BY
this old Negroes efforts they were
conveyed down the river to An,
other landing, and at one o'clock
next morning wera taken ON board
of a steamer whose Captain had
beeR appraised of their situation.
VoG can imagine my feelings
when / heard my wife describe her
suferiRgs, and then I decided, if
ever Sherman came in my way, to
be revenged.
Not long after the war I Has
travelling to st. Louis. About two
o'clock in the morning / heard
some one ask, in u ioud voice, if
there was a doctor on the train 2
l replied that / was physician
and desired to know what was
the matter. He said Mrs Gen.
Sherman was very i'll in the sleep
ing coach, aud unless relieved, be
feared she would die. Said /,
now my time has come, and I
went at once to her relief. never
waited on a lady with such tend
erness and attention in my life,
and, although she had q violent
attack of cholera morbus, OF eat
ing imprudently OF oysters the
hight before, | succeed in giving
her relief aud sleep. She was
very thankful, and desired my
address, which I avoided giving
her. When we reached st. Louis
she and her attendants and N,
; sons and self happened in the
same omnibus. Mrs. Sherman be
gan a conversation about the bit
terness that still fingered in tht
Southern heart, and said peeplc
, had not been sufficiently hum
bled. One of my little sous, wht
was about twelve years old, re
) piled:
madame, how can you expec
/ anything but bitterness, when W.
3 remember how we have beef
treatede When / think abou
their sending my mother AM
brother here, and turning Us loos
! in the swamps of Arkansas,
hate them, and always shall, Tn
! Yankees sent US OUT of MelnDhi
: without any clothing or food
away from any house, for no ref
,, son except that father was in tn
army"
= Mrs. Sherman looked up i
surprise, and remarked "SOnny
y who could have been 80 crue! ~
"Why, Gen. Sherman he ia th
. very man who did it, and / sha
u always hate him for it, sa
81 If a shell had burst, it could nc
: have created more considerable
. and confusion. / did not say
l, word, and in fact not another woI