The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-10-13

with an eager demand for news Of the
battle. With the truth on the end OF my
tongue. I looked into her blue eyes, and
there, under the very shadow OF the sane
tuary. told her monster lie. She invited
me To dinner. and it was a terrible tempta-
tion my pockets were empty and was
down fat on army rations with payday q
long vav in the future But | refused,
and walked slowly away TO camp, mournful
for two reasons: / had missed good din
per. and knew that before the sun went
down, the girls fresh young heart would
be crushed By the harsh tidings my lips had
refused to utter.
Our BOYS were the recipients of much
kindness at the hands of the people OF Jack
son, and doubtless they remember that
period as a luminous spot in the black disk
of the war. There we're many amusements
into which they plunged with a zest,
heightened By the knowledge that they
could not last and those were days when
men and women grasped eagerly at pleas
ure with the shadow of death overhead,
and threaded the dreamy waltz with the
dull roar of distant siege guns booming
in their ears.
There came a day at length when our
carnival was to end. An old copy of the
Columbus Republic of that date says: "The
enemy landed 10000 men at Grand Gulf
on the 9th April, and approached in the
direction of Jackson" Grant was uncoil-
ing his ponderous army, and slowly envel-
oping Vicksburg in its fatal folds. The
| 14th was rudely awakened from its dream
of inglorious ease and ole fine morning in
MAY, we bade adieu to Jackson, folded our
tents, fell into line, and silently marched
away. The commissaries, quartermasters,
paynasters and army of gamblers, with
| their military stores and faro banks, were
already domiciled at Meridian; and the
State government, with the old Roman
Governor, Jno. j. Pettus, at its head, anc
Jones S. Hamilton, Adjutant General, was
| temporarily established at Enterprise.
Many of the citizens left their homes, and
! Jackson was abandoned to the torch of th'
| invader.
The convicts from the peuitentiary wert
released, formed into company, and placeo
under command of Lieut.. Trotter; but on
the march they vanished in thin air" like
the smoke from Grants batteries in tht
distance.
| A mile or two out paused and looked back
a carriage, filled with pale-faced refugees
dashed by: over the doomed city, tai
ing into huge umbrella aud a sound, lik'
the distant murmer of the sea, broke OF
my ear. The "bummers" were getting il
their work. )
We took the road to Canton, where Gen
Johnston attempted to gather force for tn
relief of Vicksburg. Eventually the 14th
18th, 2Oth and 43d Mississippi Regiments
commanded respectively by Coils. Doss
Farrell, Rora and Lowry, were formed intt
the first brigade of Loring's division ant
placed under command of Gen. Johl
Adams. The brigade remained thus otli
cered and comparatively intact thrOug
the Georgia campaign and Hoods Iennes
see campaign, until the battle OF Franklin
where Adams, Farrell and ROra were killed
} and one-half the brigade withered ava
before the seething fire from Schoheld
breast-works The field officers in this fata
charge, contrary to their usual custom
remained mounted and Gen. Adams an
his horse, riddled with bullets, went dow
together within a few feet of the works
ROra fell shot through the heart, but h
horse plunged forward and dropped squa
across the works, his head and fore-fee
dangling on the enemy's side. Farrell wa
, mortally wounded, and died soon after
the hosp pitaI. The brigade finish d its caret
amongst the red hills OF North Car lima, III
der command of Gen. Robert Lowry.
A feeling of solemn awe steals over us a
. the awakened memories of those stIrrln
, times, and across the long lapse of year
we hear the sharp voices of the Captain
, and sound like the rush of many foo
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YAzoo CRY, October, 1881.