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The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Chops. (search)
Yes, you are right, honor and glory have their bitter; but I must confess that the bitter, for a change, rest much better to me than the too powerfully sweet. I wish 'Old Abe' would pension me, and give me a country seat on the Niagara, there to write athletes of war. That would also be more in conformity to your own nervous system. Yet I, hope that the war will not last much longer, and then we can carry out our wish — to live in peace, without hindrance. "Of the poisoning affair at Mudtown you will have heard, and also that some of our wagons were burnt at Keetsville, and that the Texas cavalry made an attack and carried away whereas. Curtle must surely feel this blow. "Col. Albert has gone to St. Louis., and will, I hear, go to Fremont. I told him to call on you. I have received a very friendly letter from C. Britz, also an official letter from the Legislature of Wisconsin, which was also sent to Lincoln, and in which I was proposed for a Major Generalship. "Writ
The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee Vandalism. (search)
from Gen. Herron, the Yankee commander at Perle Grove, Ark, to Capt. M. D. Bert an Arkansas " jay-hawker," directing him to take no prisoners and to burn a town. The following is the first letter: Headquarters 20 and 3d Divisions.army of the Frontier, Dec, 17, 1862. Captain:I have sent Lieut. Willemite and 75 men white river to help you clear that section of band. You and he will join forest and work together. Don't take any of them prisoners. They have on my mail carriers at Mudtown, and when up there you had better barn that place. If you can get ingrain alive send him to me. Respectfully, F. J. Herron, Brigadier General Com'g. Captain Hall The second letter is three days later, and directs "if possible, to completely destroy" the "lands infesting that country." "Don't show any away to bush whickers" says he. There letters are directly from an official source in Arkansas. The originals were found on Capt. Hart's person when captured. And he was fo