Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-29
The ASHES OF DEFEAT
Extract from a War Time
Journal Written by Georgia
Girl During the Conflict.
Warrington. Ga. May c. 1865. Sat

The mournful silence or yesterday
has been succeeded by noise and con
fusion passing anything we have yet
experienced. Rcinforcemcnts have
Joined Wilcox. and large numbers OF
Stoncman's and Wilson'S cavalry are
passing through ON their way 20 An-
beginning to come by this route again
so Washington Is now Il thoroughiarc
for both armies. Our troops do not
como In such numbers us formerly,
stu there have been a great number
of them on the streets today. About
noon. two brigadcs of our cavalry pas.
scd the gate going West. and at the
same time body of Yankees went
Ivy going East There were several
companies of negroes among them,
and their hateful old striped rag was
floating IN triumph over their heads.
was so cnraGcd when | saw It that
| said | wished the wind would tear
II to flinders. Father gave me a scold-
ing for speaking so disrcspoctlully o.,
'hN hhh anu siiU II ulUU 4 cAUn nv
he would send me to my room Then
Cousin Liza turned her back on IT,,
Cora shook her fist. on the sly, and
we had n family row 1t tx dreadful
for household TO be so divided IN
politics as we arc, Father sticks to
the Union through thick and thin. and
| mother sticks to him Mary Day. I
ibinly I,
Fred and Garnott are good Confedcr
| atcs but too considcratc of father 10
say much. while all the rest of MS arc
rcd-hot rebels. To do father justice.
| our house Is so far from the street
! that he couldn't see the plundcr with
which the wrctchcs. both black and
white, were loaded. but Cousin Mary
Cooper, who lives right on the street,
opposite our gate, told us that she
saw one white man with silver cake
haslic; tied to the pommel of his sad
die, and nearly all Of them had stolen
articles dangling from the front of
their saddles or slunE in bags behind.
| And yet they blame us for not respect
| ing their flag when We see it again
| for the first time in four years float
| ing over scenes like this, A largo
body of them arc camped back of Aunt
Cornelia's meadow, and have actually
thrown the dear old lady, who WIS
never known TO speak cross word
to anybody. into a rage, by their i'll
science. Captain Hudson had almost
to kick one of them out of the house
before he could get him to move, and
the rascal cried, as he went down tho
steps:"I thought you Rebs were all
subjugated now, and could so where
| | pleased" Another tainted her by
saying: You have got plenty of slaves
to walt on you now. but you wont
have them long" They tried to buy
provisions of her. but she told them
that everything she had to spare was
for our own soldiers. and would not
| let them have mouthful. Mr.. Hull
had to ask for guard from the COM
manding officer to protect the family.
They have their patrols all over the
town and | can hear their insolent
talking long enough to listen. Our
house is SO far back from the street
that we suffer comparatively little.
Two men in blue came up md asked
for supper while we were sitting on
the piazza after tea, but nobody took
any notice OF them. Mother had been
so busy all day getting up extra meals
for our own men and was so utterly
tagged out that she did not oven look
up to see who they were. We didn't
tell her for fear father might hear
and want us TO give them something
land they went away. They are So
many Confederates in the house that
they didn't dare to he insoleut. Gen
eral Yorke is with us now, and body
of his men are camped in the grove
He is a rough old fellow, but has &
brap.. regard, and waars an empty
sleeve. They say he was the richest
man in Louisiana "bcfore the delugo'
owned thirty thousand acres of land
and nine hundred negroes. besides
plantations in Tcxas-and now. he
hasn't money enough to pay his way
home. He is very fond of cigarettes
and keep both him and Captain Hud
son supplied with them The Captain
taught me how to roll them. and
have become so skillful that car
make them, as we used to knit socks
without looking at what am doing
Am extract from the wartime
Journal of Georgia Drip in the May
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