The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-22
THE BOOMING CANNON
RECiTALS OF CAMP AND BAT.
TILE INCIDENTS.
Survivors Of the Rebellion Relate
Many Amusing and Startling Incl
dents of Marches, Camp Life, Forag.

ing Experiences and Battle Scenes.
The Vicksburg Citizen is still a po-
tent part Of the Vicksburg community,
bearing no trace to-day of its terrible
experiences during the siege, but there
are new men at the helm. Following
the surrender there was an interludc
In its publication, and at this late date
1t is interesting to glance through the
last issue preceding the capture. 1t
was this issue which A. b. Champion
Of Delphi, member Of the Indiana
commission, really put to press, after
lifting out sufficient matter" to make
room for the announcement that Vicks-
burg had fallen, or, as Mr.. Champion
put it: Grant had caught the rab-
Bit" Thousands of copies were cir
culated as souvenirs by Mr.. Cramp-
ton and his associates. In the light Of
after developments, it is interesting
to see how the Citizens columns
teemed with rot" calculated to fire
the Southern heart and keep up the
courage of the soldiers guarding the
doomed city.
Among the excerpts: I'VE are in
debted to Major Gillespie for a steak
of Confederate beef, alias meat We
have tried it, and we can assure our
friends that if it is rendered necessary
they need have no scruples at eating
the meat 1t is savory, sweet and ten-
der, and as long as we have a mule
left we are satisfied our soldiers will
be content to subsist on it,
Another paragraph speaks of the
death Of Mrs. Cisco, presumably killed
by Union shell, in the Jackson road,
and Of the passing away Of Jesse AS
kew. young merchant, detailed for
duty in the trenches and member Of
Cowan's artillery. 1t also says:
Grants forces did little firing Tues
day afternoon, but the balance of the
day was comparatively quiet. Yester-
day morning they were very still, and
continued so until early in the after
noon. when they sprung a move on
the left Of our center, and opened fire
all along the line for some distance.
We have not been able to ascertain
anything definite as to our loss, but
as our officers were on the outlook for
this move Of the enemy, the expecta-
lions Of the Yankees were not realized
by great DEAL
The Citizen compliments F. Kiser,
generous-hearted man, who, with
business forethought, had fortified his
family with an abundance of pro-
visions, and who apportioned his sur
plus and contributed to the need of
distressed families. Says the Citizen:
May he live long and prosper, and
may his name be handed down to pos
terity when the siege of vicksburg is
written, as one in whose breast the
milk of human kindness had not dried
up"
Admiral Porter, with his gunboats
and mortar fleet, evidently was a great
annoyance, and his sharpshooters also
made things lively on the river front,
Judging from the wall of the Citizen.
poor fool" says the Citizen, referring
to Porter, 'he might as well give no
the vain aspiration he entertains Of
capturing our city, or exterminating
our people, and return to his master,
to receive the reward such q gasconad-
ing dolt will meet at the hands of the
unappreciatiDg government at Wash
lngton." Reference is had to the death
Of Lieutenant Colonel Griffin, a gal
liant officer, attached to General
Smiths impetuous DIVISION" and COM
handing the Thirty-first Louisiana in
fantry, the Citizen adding: MAY the
soft south winds murmur sweet re-
QUEENS DER his names, and the twi-
light dews fall gentle like an angels
teardrop and moisten his turfy bed
! A significant warning appears in
one Of the columns, in effect that resi-
dents are secreting supplies, and that
but for their hoggish disposition there
would be sufficient for all, and there
Is a gentle intimation that If this is
verified there will be something doing
along the line of confiscation. Saws
the Citizen: Let a brand not only be
placed on their brow, but let it be
scared into their very brain, that hui
mainly may scorn and shun them as
they would the portals of hell itself"
A month old Memphis Bulletin had
wandered through the lines and from
It the Citizen extracts a few crumbs
4 nf f1x in, .<o6 q
Union arms The Citizen compliments
the former editors of the Bulletin, who
were pro-Southern, and were sup
pressed by the provost marshal. 1.-The
Bulletin is now edited" says the Citi-
zen, ''by a pin-nosed. slab-sided, toad
eating Yankee, who is a lineal des-
PENDANT of Judas Iscariot, and "a
brother german of the greatest puri-
tanical, sycophantic, bowling scoun-
drel unhung, Parson Brownlee. Yet,
with such a fact, this paper cannot
cloak the fact that Gen. Robert e. Lee
has given Hooker, Milroy & Co. one
D. the best and soundest whippings on
record, and that the glorious Union
Is now exceedingly weak in the
| knees"
The lack of discipline among the
Confederate soldiers is source of
extreme annoyance" to the Citizen,
md company officers are censured for
permitting their men to roam about
by day and by night purloining fruit,
vegetables, chickens, etc. These
providers in daylight had seized cattle
and other things. and "defied the own