The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-01-14

Balentine, the passport agent on the
road Sold him some Tennessee
money, two for one, for Confederate
money.
Nov. 8. Went up in town and
paid DR.. Bull. Got certificate from
post surgeon, signed by Capt. Reid,
commander of the Post. Took some
letters, packed up and started for
Jackson, A. NJ. Glenn assisting me
to the depot.
Learn that New York, New Jer-
sey and Illinois have gone Dem
ocratic. Can hear from Memphis
nearly every day. Saw Mr.. Cole
burn, who had been up to Memphis
trying to get thirty of his negroes
that had been stolen by the
Yankees.
Nov. 10. Slept but little last
night: car second-class and too
cold. Arrived at Jackson at 8 a. m.
Procured my pay to the first of Oc-
tober. Got a passport to Chat
tanOoga and twenty days furlough
from Gen. Pemberton. Took dinner
at the Confederate house and left
for Mobile at five. Before leaving 1
visited the wreck of the arsenal
that had been blown up.
Nov. II. Arrived at Meridian at
a. m. Paid SO for breakfast and
bed until day. Paid 1915, half
fare, to Meridian; 1915, full fare, to
Mobile. Pine woods all the way to
Mobile.
Nov. ~. Paid SO for supper and
bed at the Battle House. 1t is a
miserable hotel; said to be the best
in the city. Left Mobile at 7 a. M,
for the railroad to Montgomery
twenty miles across the bay up
Tensas river. Paid 50 full fare to
Montgomery. Left depot at 9:45 by
Mobile and Great Northern Rail
road. Considerable number of
troops thirty miles from Mobile to
protect the city from abolition raids.
Fifty miles to the first settlement,
Pollard Station. Troops here. So
far nothing but pine forest with
, some swamps. Met conductor Stone
at Pollard's. Took dinner at the
Evergreen-$l.00, and a sorry din
: ner. A Mr.. Jay had negro at the
depot with provisions for soldiers
something new after being in
Mississippi. Arrived at Montgom-
cry at Top. m. Put up at the Elk
, change; best kept hotel I've been to-
The war has had less effect on this
} city than any I've seen.
Nov. ID. Paid 80 hotel bill and
1915, full fare to Atlanta. Started
at 8 a. m. Pretty country around
Montgomery. Sixty miles to Ope.
, leika, where we took dinner
Bought glass of chestnuts for q
, cents. Crossed the Chattahoochee
at Columbus at l 80 p. IN. Changed
cars here. Reached Atlanta at6;45
Hadn't time to eat anything. PAID
the hotel keeper a dollar to wrap me
up a snack. Paid a negro % cents
to carry my trunk across the plat
form to the Chattanooga train
Paid Sc, full fare, to Chattanooga
7 Changed cars at Kingston, or
2 account of freight train being of
4 the track.
3 Nov. IA. Arrived at Chattanooga
at Z a. m. Dragged my trunk from
1 one train to the other. Paid 81
5 cents for two small pies. Started
for Shelbyville without any break
! fast. Arrived at Bridgeport at II a
r M, and crossed the river on ferry
boat. Got across and found all tin
r cars pressed into sefSice for the us,
e of troops. Gould get nothing to ca
at first, but finally found a negr,
? who cooked us some dinner ant
6 charged us dollar apiece. Got in
e to a house to lie down. Lay on on
| of the filthiest, meanest beds in tn
t Confederacy. The proprietor wa
f very crusty and cross grained. Gen
e Bragg had pressed his house ant
X notified him to move out so that
>. could be let to some man who woult
= feed railroad and army men. Rail
Y road men did not come in tina
u night, so 1 got to sleep indoors al
d night. No one else lived there
and this old fellow locked hi
e doors to keep any one from poster
s ing him. Being perfectly exhausted
n when l reached there, | think
V would have gone under if had lai
g out all night as the others did.
n Nov, 10. Paid Sl.25 for my night
n lodging and breakfast, which | go
t after some persuasion. Took sea
V in the cars to be sure of one whe
IS they left at 10 o'clock. Pretty 500
IS l was ordered out by the militar
g authorities; cars pressed agair
e Learned that Kirby Smiths force
If were arriving at Chattanooga o
. their way to MurfreesborO. Cam
ir to the conclusion that 1 would hav
to go back and give up my trip afte
3, getting in sight of the promise
|, land. Made last desperate effol
g and succeeded through the kindnes
) of Col. Neil, commander of the pos
e Paid $780, full fare, to Wartrace
Y where L arrived just after darh
If without further mishap than tn
s. breaking in two of the train goin
It up the heavy grade to the tunne
IS When the rear part of the train com
l. menced running back it came nea
% producing panic.
v Sunday, Nov. Is. Found tn
I. officers of the 4Sth with recruit
/. at Wartrace, waiting for trans
II pOrtation; Saw Sandy Oliver
1t who said that he was capture
r, at Perryville, but made his ec
e cape. Mr.. Sykes, Lieut.. Aki
q aud 1, with three other men, hired
It hack to Shelbyville, nine miles, 70
/. 80 apiece. Got dinner here an
% hired a hack to Lewisburg, twenty
d one miles, for So apiece. Found tina
d the owner had been a Union ma