Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-24
THE BOOMING CANNON
RECiTALS OF CAMP AND SAT.
TIE INCIDENTS.
Survivors OF the Rebellion Relate
Many Amusing and Startling Incl
dents OF Marches, Camp Life, Forag-
Ing Experiences and Battle scenea.

The NickSburg 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 interlude
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. II. Champion
of Delphi, member of the Indiana
commission, really put TO press, after
lifting out sufficient matter to make
room for the announcement that Eicks-
burg had fallen, or, as Mr. Champion
put II; Grant had caught the rab-
bit Thousands of copies were cir
cuiated 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 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 il"
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 stil. and
continued so until early IN the after
noon, when they sprung n 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 a great deal"
The Citizen compliments f. Kiser.
a 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 tie Citizens;
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 feet, 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 cntertains of
capturing our city, or discriminating
our people, and return to his master.
TO receive the reward such a gasconad-
ing dolt will meet at the hands of the
unappreciating government at Wash
lngton.' Reference IN had TO the death
of Lieutenant-C Colonel Griffin. n paI-
liant officer, ATTACHED to General
Smiths impetuous division" and com
manding the Thirty first Louisiana in
fantry, the Citizen adding: MAY the
soft south winds murmur sweet re-
QUEENS DER his names, and the t,vi-
light dews fall gentle like an angels
teardrop and moisten his turfy bed. -
significant warning appears in
one of the columns, in effect that resi-
dents are secreting supplies, ana 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 or confiscation. Says
the Citizen: Let a brand not only be
placed on their brow, but let il be
scared into their very brain, that hui
manity may Gc0In and sEun them as
they would the portals Of hell Itself"
\ month old Memphis Bulletin haJ
wandered through the lines and from
ii the Citizen extracts few crumbs
of comfort in reported reverses Of
Union arms. The Citizen compliments
the former editors Of the Bulletin, who
were pro-Southern, and were sun
pressed by the provost marshal. The
Bulletin IL now edited" says the Citi-
zen, by pin-nosed, slab sided, toad
eating Yankee, who is lneaI des-
ccndant of Judas Iscariot, and -
brother german OF the greatest puri-
tanical, sycophantic, bowling scoun-
drel unhung, Parson Brownlee. Yet.
with such fact, this paper cannot
cloak the fact that Gen, Robert f. Lee
has given Hooker, AIilroy d co. one
o. the best and gOuudest yvhiuufugu ~,