The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09

and one from the famous cavalry lead er Forrest, that is remarkable chiefly for Its originality of spelling ana | grammar. Some of the newspaper clip l pings are printed on the coarse brown wrapping paper with which printer and 1 poet alike had to content themselves | in the stringent days of the blockade. very suggestive, as for instance, The 1 Macon Confederate" and "Nhe Chatta-
 though often resented by the present | generation of Southerners as term
 of reproach, was proudly accepted by 1 the men and women of those times, | who clung to if and gloried in 1t as a title of the highest honor. Our old
 scrap book. bears ample testimony to | this fact. We find constantly poems
 bearing such titles as The Rebels | Crave" Rebel is a Sacred Name, and many other instances in which 1t Is
 used with an exultant pride and affec- | donate reverence that gives it prer- erence to every other title. Our troops
 are proudly referred to as "the rebel | dear to the hearts of the people at home as when -they think of them as 'our rebel boys" and their mothers and
 wives and sweethearts received an add | ed charm from the fact that they were "reber' women. Everybody was 3
 rebel and everybody gloried Tn tne
 name. Even to this day, I suspect
 brides himself on his record, as a l ragged rebel in spite of the efforts l of our conuuerors to convert name
 honored by So many heroic deeds ana
 made sacred by so many noble asso- | citations, Into a term of opprobrium. | Among other curiosities preserved l in this collection, IS tax receipt cer- vember, 1864, the holder had paid at | depot No. 10, Eleventh Congressional District of the State of Georgia, 1.s bushels of wheat, worth $6So5, ana | hale nf nnf worth | the government 1.-the on the products raised on his town lot.
 | An amusing example of newspaper infallibility in those days is furnished bg two contradictory, reports Of inc | battle of Corinth, one from a Nortn- ern, and the other from Southern
 source, which the compiler, with the
 sense of humor that carried the south erners so cheerfully through their darkest days, pasted side by side, m parallel columns. Each paper claims
 the victory for It's own side m ,s,tn san | slight shifting of names, the neao- | lines might be mutually interchanged | without materially disturbing the CT, | feet upon either set of readers, as VIII ! be seen from the copy given below From the "The Daley Clipper" a
 paper published In BaitimoTe) a
 The Union Troops in Possessione The Rebels Beyond Corinth. OUR CAVALRY. IN PURSUIT; | GENERAL. HALLECK IN THE FIELD.
 BEAUREGARD'S SPEECH! Profanity of His Remarkal OUR LOSS EXAGGERATEDl 40O0 Killed and Wounded! (From "The Chronicle and Sentinel"
 'A "S N'|'' FULL DETAILS
 From Corinth.
 GALLANT VICTORY!
 Two Days FightingI
 4,vO0 Federals Prisoners. OUR LOSS LESS THAN FIRST hF- PORTEDf
 volume could easily be written about the quaint treasures or thls olo historical curiosity shop, but the spaes at my command forbids their further
 exploration at the present time. =
 Eliza Frances Andrews,
 Historian Sophy Bibb Chapter. U. ID. C.
 Montgomery, Ala
 This article was contributed by Mrs. William Kicks to the Historian or Tuscumbia Chapter of Q D. C.
 When the distant muttering nun ders of a fast approachlng reoeliloH hoa of the Southern states first reached ,nlr ears we were incredulous, men who had been foremost in inviting the trouble when the awful pfocla. nation came stood with plahcheu faces before their terror stricken fam flies and with a seriousness they had never known before, studied the on- iv alternatives, go and face death Tn battle or stay at home and face dis grace. . s,... ing against unequal numbers. white robed peace once more spread her wings over the land A remnant or Southern soldiers came home to find. instead of stately mansions, heap of ashes and bearing In their hearts wounds that were harder to heal than those of battle, and memories that rouisled like so many sword points m their bodies, and starvation like a gaunt hungry wolf staring them in the face
 My first introduction to war was when General Grants army took pos session of La Grange. Tenn. It was one of those soft balmy days when one loves to sit and dream unmolested by anything or any one especially the orderlies of an invading army when mother myself and two younger SIS ters saw for the first time, the gilt tering bayonets of the advance guard of the Federal army. We sat on the porch robbed in black for we had just laid to rest our dear father and our only brother was in far away Virginia with Lee in the 18th Mississippi Reg iment. Company c. We were fearful ly alarmed at the approach of these soldiers bat with wnmanly instinct tried to appear calm for the sake of the younger girls. Two aides de camp with their orderlIes dashed up to our steps and saluting said, Madam, we have orders to go over this house and see If will suit General Grant for headquarters" Mother begged that they go elsewhere and leave us fin our sorrow The reply, while they hur-
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