The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-14
Personal Memoirs of o. s. Grant.

breyet ID lieutenant 4Ih Infantry, and /
a number of maps of battles. The print
is large and open, and will be enjoyed
by all who prefer to read without arti-
fetal helps. Following the title page is
this inscription: 'sTnese volumes are
dedicated to the American soldier and |
sailor. Z. 5 Grant. New York City, |
May %, 1885, 1t is a readable book,
and if not reliable in all its statements,
allowance should be made for the condi-
ton of rapidly declining health under
which it was written. Gen. Grants
early life, mis- connection with the Next
can War and with the late Civil War,
are all sketched in an entertaining and
fascinating style. The volume closes
with the investment and surrender of
Vicksburg.
Chapter xxxv is devoted to t'The Fall
of Jackson-Battle of Campion Hip
and we will make few extracts from it
for the purpose of "vindicating the
truth of history" in matter incorrectly
stated by Gen. Grant:
sWhen the news reached me OF McPher-
sons victory al Raymond May 8, 1861
about shutdown my position was with
Sherman. | decided al once to turn the
whole column toward Jackson and capture
that place without delay.
| notified General Halleck that / should
attack the State Capital on the 18th. =
Il slept that night in the room
tn at Johnson was said to have occupied the
night before.
About tour in the afternoon | sent for
the corps commanders and directed the dis
sitions to be made of their troops. Sher-
man was to remain in Jackson until he
mad destroyed that place as a railroad cen
ter, and manufacturing city OF military
supplies. He did the work most effectu-
ally. Sherman and | went together into
mandatory which had not ceased work on
account OF the battle nor Tor the entrance
OF Yankee troops. Our presence did not
seem to attract the attention of either the
manager or the operatives, most of whom
were girls. We looked on for while to
see the tent cloth which they were making
roll out of the looms, with C. ). A woven
in each bolt. There was an immense
amount OF cotton, in bales, stacked outside.
Finally, told Sherman | thought they
had done work enough. The operatives
| were told they could leave and take with
| them what cloth they could carry. In IA
lew minutes cotton and factory were in a
blaze. The proprietor visited Washington
while was President, to get his pay for
| this property, claiming that it was private.
| de asked me 10 give him statement OF
the fact that his property had been de-
| stroyed by the National troops, so that he
| might use it with Congress where he was
pressing, or proposed To press his claim. |
declined.
The foregoing is so different from
what we have always understood to be
the facts connected with the burning OF
Green's Cotton Mill, that we interviewed
| Mr.. Joshua Green, the senior proprietor
of the Mill, and were informed by him
| That General Grant did not visit the
Mill, as stated. Mr.. Green, on being
Informed of General Sherman's purpose
to. burn the property, proceeded at once
to the MIL, where he found General
Sherman, with whom he demonstrated
General Sherman told him the Mill had
to burn, but that he would give him
one hour in which to see General Grant
and, if possible, obtain from him an or.
der excepting the Mill from the general
destruction Mr.. Green found General
Grant at the Bowman House, and Sc
cured from him suspension of the or
der to burn the Mill until the day fol
lowiDg-the reasons for excepting the
Mill to be in the meantime reduced to
writing by Mr.. Green. These reason:
were prepared by Judge William Yer
ger, and were as follows:
JACKSON, MISS, May Is, 1868.
To Mqjor- General Z. S. Grant, Command
ing Forces Of the United States IN thc
| State Of Mississippi;
The undersigned citizens of the State n
Mississippi, would respectfully show tn /
they are private citizens of the State OF
| Mississippi. In the years 1857 and 1858
they established the Pearl River Manufac-
tory for the purpose of manufacturing
coarse cottons for plantations and families
The establishment was and is entirely
dersigned. From the date of the estab-
lishment of the factory until the present
time the undersigned have had in their
employment upwards OF one hundred romea
| and children, who are entirely dependent
| on the undersigned, and the wages received
from them, for maintenance and support.
The undersigned opposed, in the COM
mencement, the action which brought
about the present unhappy condition OF
| affairs in which the country is placed but
when the State of Mississippi seeded from
the Union every feeling of becoming man
illness, as well as an anxious desire to avert
as far as possible the evils of civil war.
demanded that the undersigned should
give obedience TO the authority Of the State
expressed by majority of the people
| Under these circumstances the undersigned
pursued their usual avocation, continuing
| their mandatory as originally established,
| for the use OF private citizens and plan
| tiers, until the authorities of the Confeder-
| ate Government required the use Of the
| mill for the manufacture of cloth for them.
| The undersigned has learned that an order
| for the destruction of their mills has been
| made To do so will entail misery and
| want upon upwards of an hundred women
| and children who rely on it fer support.
1t is not public, but private establish
ment, and its destruction cannot advance
either the military or political success of
the United States, while 1t will bring
ruin and want upon hundreds OF helpless
innocent and unoffending women and chill
dren. Under these circumstances the I'M
dersigned ask for an order revoking the
direction to destroy their mills. The IN
dersigned believe that the dictates of hui
mainly, the interests of peace, and the ne
cessities of the many women and children
will insure from you favorable consider
alton.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
]. & T. GREEN.
On the foregoing being handed by
Judge Yerger and Mr.. Green to General
Grant, he demanded that the words
"citizens of the State of Mississippi
should be stricken out, and the words.
citizens o. the United States, substituted
therefor. This, they declined to do. |
Finally, after considerable discussion, |
General Grant informed them that he
was packing up for immediate departure
from Jackson, and that he would refer
the whole matter to General Sherman.
from whom the Messrs. Green received
the following communication just pre-
vious to the burning of their mill:
HEADQUARTERS 18TH ARMY CoRps.,
JACKSON, Miss, May L. 1853 |
Messrs. Joshua and Thomas Green
Present. Gentlemen-Your petition of
regarding the order of General
Grant to destroy ''all machinery with
heir buildings used or easily convertible