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The Daily Dispatch: November 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
nd battle-field, but the daily scenes in camp Sumter exceeded, in the extremity of misery, all my previous experience. The best thing, however, so far, is "Joe Hooker in Tears." Here at is: In the great Union procession at Spring field, fill last week, were ninety- three two-horse wagons loaded with wood. It was dumped in a pile for distribution to soldiers' families. General Joe Hooker, while riding up from the depot, met the procession, and was rather stunned by the ninety-three wood wagons. "Why, where can these farmers find a market for this immense quantity of fuel?" asked the hero. "Oh, General, it is a part of our procession; every stick of that is going to the families of soldiers absent in the army." The tears gathered in Hooker's eyes"trembled a moment, then ran down the cheeks bronzed in a hundred battles, while he said, "My God! what a people you Illinoisan are! You not only furnish men without stint to fight the battles of the nation, but you take a fathe