The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-12-31
The Rebels Arrive at Holly Springs,
Miss, After a TiresOme Jour-
ney On Flat Cars.
Orders to Move Again sOOn-The
"BOys" Have Hard Time Get
ting What Few Inferior Eata-
bles They Can Find.
Continued from last week-Article l4.l
FORT DoNELsoN, FEB. l6, 1862.
BYTIP.

FORT DoNELSON, FEB. 10, looA
TIP.
Cold, gloomy day, spring of a dreary
night,
Flinging gray shadows on the records
of the fight
That lie thick strewn upon the g"ey
field
Where ruin shows that neither host
The mangIed corse of stalworth war
The frozen earth is his lonely, unat-
tended bier;
Whilst there lie the forms OF many
blooded steed
That know no more the dash or merry
speed.
The unsheathed sword lies glittering
where it fell.
Where's he that grasped it? Alas! none
can tell.
The bayonet bent, with all the other
OF -visaged war, lies scattered
Cold, gloomy morn! Thou comest with
out ray
OF hope to usher in this melancholy
day;
No sunny gloom to illume the page of
story
or gid traditions of the hero's glory.
Sleep on, Brave Host! This sleeps
your last.
Would We could wake to the glories OF
the past!
How bIest fate compared with ours
to know
Our sad doom fixed-SURRENDER TC
THE FOE!
That craven order sent from post tC
post
Wakes to grief the slumbering. host:
, Wonder is fixed on every warriors race
! And next despair to wonder gives place
i Victors at night with brightest laurel
decked, N,
Prisoners at dawn with hope and free
No pailant SGm ErS6afS5 e6afso of ovorpowerinl
Y No martial skill has turned your stead
k tlanks.
N No cannon's roar salutes the god of day
. No dreadful slaughter thins your gril
y array.
d But here with bursting, anguishe
l. hearts We stand,
ii Your country's bravest sacrihcial oa M
e Your wreaths upon ruined altar cas-
ar Their fragrance known only In III
+ past, e.,.
ri lot WreSG6u IGOul y ou III Vii0 ~ 20
~ But stolen while sleeping on thatdr
Is full night.
s, One farewell sigh breathed TO ancesUrt
d halls!
Your next will be drawn in hate
prison walls,
Though dark be the gloom of this te
rible day,
a Do not despair. Twill soon have pass
re away.
at You will once more march the victo
I Oh And Your names be emblazoned on t
., scroll of story.
III Jackson, Miss, Oct. 6, 1862. Dire
as percussion muskets without bay
NJ nets, oil-cloth knapsacks, have
% sacks and canteens. No side arr
in for officers. For letter written
Andy johnson some returned prl'
ners were arrested by Tilgman a
threatened to be shot. They we
ad subsequently, released on denyi
mt the authorship of the letter.
on VIM. Colmer, of Lewis Co., Ten
'ge (3rd Reg't.) has been arrested ano
ed in confinement here for taking
a oath, Joining the Yankees, and 81
ith dry other acts. 1t is thought ii
ro- he will be shot.
yas Oct7. Received orders to be at
&C. depot at p. m. and to take no D
les gage except just what we Co
,py carry. Cooked days rations, strI
the tents and arrived at the depot
es- dark. Took supper at the Conf
on crate House. Bought some bisc
for from the cook for my days ratio
es- gave some Canadian coin for tn,
EAR. the only silver or change L had. :
en- some ladies who had come down
see their relatives sleeping on
depot platform, unable to get
any house. Returned prisoners
md being sent off as fast as possible.
81 81 Left Jackson at 10:30 on fiat c
orc crowded up so we could not sl'
90 Learn that Van Dorm was ba
for whipped in the third days fight.
lOn Oct. 8. Arrived at Goodman's
,yos S ton, on the Mississippi Central II
On one hundred miles from oxford
sch daylight. At Grenada l saw
80 friend "A. NJ. Glenn. Il is the imp
md sion of the writer that Glenn wf
vad Kentuckian. During the buildir
, ." the Nashville and Decatur railr
in the early SOS, as a contractC
possibly superintendent of fol
her he boarded for some time at
fter- home of Maj. CampoeH: AIthC
arts a Union man he anu NAL Cant
With were the best OF lrlends ana
1ren latter had spent seVeral weeks
the him at his home In Kentucky
two prior to the commencement of
be- tilities. During his imprisonr
real Mai. Campbell received Il
ing from Glenn, enclosing money
both offering any assistance in his poN
kind He is conductor on the NJ. d T. !
arge Had no time to talk with MIN:
the Our men fall on each other in
ade. hot broiling sun and go to 5