The National tribune., 1893-08-03

wards Station, as the enemy is advancing
from Vicksburg in that vicinity, and bat
tie is imminent The Third (Tuttle's) Di.
vision follows later in the day, the Second
Brigade being the last to leave, as it was
the first to enter the city, and the Live
Eagle regiment, the last to leave, takes down
the flag from the StatehOuse dome, and
marches out of the city a little before IL
o'clock m. of that day.
| During their stay in Jackson Gen. Grant
and staff make their Headquarters in the
| Bowman House. Gen. Sherman and staff &C.
cupy a magnificent dwelling near the GEN.
ter of the city. Gen. Tuttle, our division CON-
mander, finds neat and comfortable quarters
in the suburbs of the city. Gen. Mower,
commander of the Live Eagle Brigade, oc-
cupies the Supreme Court room in the capt.
| toll Col. Robbins, in command of the 9Th
Wis, temporarily fills the office of Judges of
| Errors and Appeals. Col. Webber, of the
| 18th Mo-, Second Brigade, fills the office of
| Secretary Of State. Col. Hubbard, of 5th
| Mimi, takes the Attorney Generals Office,
and Col. Cromwell, 47th H., usurpes the
| Office of the State Librarian.
Lieut. Col. Jefferson, of the Live Eagle
regiment, in his capacity of Provost Marshal,
occupies the State Treasurer's Office, which
is crowded day and night with citizens and
refugees seeking protection from the mill
| tary officers Of the Government they have
outraged, defed and insulted. Surg Murta
of the Live Eagle regiment, occupies the
Land Offices where his benign cOndescension
is shed upon the just and the unjust, as he
dispenses the precious drugs-now so scarce
within the Southern Confederacy-both to
friend and faa With rlart oil and
hand. The legislative halls are occupied
by prisoners of war who are present at all
hours with a full quorum, and no filibuster
ing is INDUCED in to defeat or delay bust
ness, but all are alert to devise the best
means of lettering their deplorablyd egen-
crate seeded State.
On the 18th the ruthless hand of destruc-
ton and devastation has full sway, and i'm
mense amounts of Confederate property,
military manufactures and stores are de-
stTOyed. There is no intention of destroy
ing any private property, but public prop
erty and that which is likely to contribute
to the support and prolOngation Of the war
is being rapidly consumed by fire or other
wise destroyed, and the guilty inhabitants
are in terror. Men and boys only yesterday
in the trenches assisting in the defense of
their city from the despised Yankee Lin
cOlnites, whose courage failed when CHANGING
suns rays cleaned in their eyes from that
advancing line of brisiling bayonets, and
when the Union cheer rose high above the
battles din, and who gave way and fed in
wild terror to their homes are this day with
dOwncast and dispairiDg faces seeking pro-
lection at the hands of the heretofore-de-
spised and deTided Yankees, pleading that
their property may be spared by the ruthless
hand of the invader.
Notwithstanding it has been the fate of
some OF her citizens unavoidably to share
the evils of the circumstance of war by the
destruction of property, the city still stands,
and her magnificent capitol, with all its
valuable records, where foul treason was
first ordained, is left unframed, as a monu-
ment Of their outraged country's forbear-
ance and the generosity of their hated
Yankee invaders and conquerors, monu-
ment to their shame when peace shall have
been conquered by their truest of friends
the Union soldiers and the Union answered
shall be respected and honored by the ma
tons of the earth.
The Live Eagle Brigade marches out Of
Jackson about IL o'clock with the rebel
cavalry at its heels, as is usual with that
kind of beast, ready TO follow and hiss out
their spite like goose when ones back is
turned, and still more ready TO run when
turned upon.
Col Cromwell, of the 47th Ill.,, having re-
turned TO the city to look after stragglers, is
captured, ard not heard from afterward.
Report says he was shot by a citizen in the
street.
During our stay many Of the soldiers,
whose uniforms have become very much
dilapidated and rather over-populated with
uncOngenial inhabitants, have exchanged
for any suitable article of clothing TO be
found in vacated stores, and now the troops
are somewhat deficient in uniformity of
dress. The writer hereof is no exception to
the rule, having appropriated to the neces-
sites of the occasion kind Of blue and
white pepper-and-salt denim pants and
blue-gray shirt So that on the march, with
the uniform dress coat under our knapsack
on our hack, if met in the woods it would
not be easy to tell which side he belonged
TO an incident in relation TO which we will
have occasion 10 hereafter refers. G.
MILES, StetsOnville, Wis.