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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore), 1862, August (search)
August 6. Col. Thomas C. Johnson, aid to the rebel Gen. Price, at Quitman, Miss., issued the following call to the people of that State: I am in your midst for the purpose of procuring shoes and yarn socks for Gen. Price's army. Some of his veterans — men who have been in six or eight pitched battles and twenty skirmishes — are to-day destitute of these two articles, necessary even in camp, but indispensable when the army takes the field. As this army now guards the gates to the entrance of the Mississippi, preliminary to driving the enemy northward, Gen. Price desires that the patriotic men of this State should furnish the shoes, and her glorious women the yarn-socks. If possible, he would like every white woman in the State to knit at least one pair of socks for his army. While I make this appeal, I think it is proper to add, that I do not ask a donation, but am prepared to pay a liberal price for both shoes and yarn-socks. I shall be pleased to contract with tanner
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 8: Civil affairs in 1863.--military operations between the Mountains and the Mississippi River. (search)
undred men. But the remainder were worn down and dispirited, and one-third of them were dismounted. Expecting Smith at Meridian every hour, Sherman remained there several days, during which time he laid that town in ashes, with the arsenal, several buildings containing commissary stores, and all the railway property there. We staid at Meridian a week, said Sherman in a dispatch to General Grant, March 10. and made the most complete destruction of the railroads ever beheld — south below Quitman, east to Cuba Station, twenty miles north to Lauderdale Springs, and west, all the way back to Jackson. By this work one of the prime objects of the expedition was accomplished; but Smith's failure to reach Meridian, and so give Sherman ample cavalry, prevented the infliction of tenfold more injury. Without that cavalry, Sherman did not think it prudent to go farther, nor remain at Meridian, so he retraced his steps leisurely back to Canton, where he arrived on the 26th, with four hundre
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 125 (search)
n February fourteenth. General Polk, having a railroad to assist him in his retreat, escaped across the Tombigbee on the seventeenth. We staid at Meridian a week, and made the most complete destruction of the railroads ever beheld — south below Quitman, east to Cuba Station, twenty miles north to Lauderdale Springs, and west all the way back to Jackson. I could hear nothing of the cavalry force of General William Smith ordered to be there by February tenth. I inclose by mail this, with a coge as a million dollars cannot repair. The Southern road was torn up, rails twisted, and sleepers burnt, from Jackson to twenty miles east of Meridian to Cuba Station. The Mobile and Ohio road was destroyed for fifty-six miles, extending from Quitman to Lauderdale Springs. Five costly bridges were totally destroyed. The one spanning the Chickasawhay River was two hundred and ten feet long, with trestle-work, which required four months hard labor of hundreds of mechanics to construct it. It
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book IV:—the war in the South-West. (search)
iefs, indulged too often in acts of pillage. The town of Meridian was ruined—we might almost say entirely destroyed. Sherman then divided between his two lieutenants the care of making unserviceable the two great railroad lines which crossed each other at Meridian. Hurlbut sent in the direction of Corinth and Demopolis detachments which accomplished this work for a distance of about sixty miles, including eight bridges. Those that McPherson took westward, and especially southward beyond Quitman, also accomplished their work as thoroughly: one hundred and eighteen miles of road were torn up, fifty-three bridges and nearly seven thousand feet of piling in the swamps of the Chicasaha were burned, and nineteen locomotives found on this portion of the line were broken up. More than ten thousand men were thus employed for four days, working with axes and pickaxes, not satisfied with bending each rail after having heated it, but twisting it, so that it could not again be straightened.
The Daily Dispatch: February 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movement on Mobile. (search)
The movement on Mobile. An official dispatch was yesterday received at the War Department from Mobile, stating that the Yankees had reached Quitman, Miss., on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, at which point they destroyed some of the trestle work of the road. The force that accomplished this is presumed, of course, to be a detachment of Sherman's army.
The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], 500 Reward (search)
The Mobile Register of the 18th, says that the latest information received leaves little doubt that Sherman's whole force is moving on that city. In its situation article the same paper remarks: From the information received up to this hour, it looks as if the first judgment of Gen. Polk, about the destination of the enemy, was correct, and that he is really moving on Mobile. He was certainly at Enterprise on Monday evening, and we have just heard that he has made his appearance at Quitman, ten miles further South. It is, however, the opinion of the last officers and others who left Meridian and Enterprise, that Sherman's principal force is pushing after Gen. Polk's retiring forces, towards Demopolis. If the Yankee soldiers are not like chameleons, and live on air, it is difficult to see how they can march 80,000 men, and the horses for their transportation and artillery through so barren a country, and for such a distance. The twenty days rations which they are said to ha
The Daily Dispatch: March 2, 1864., [Electronic resource], Sherman's expedition. (search)
to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad extends from Lauderdale to two miles below Quitman, a distance of forty-six miles, all the bridges and trestle work being destroyed, and the track torn up for miles at intervals, as is elsewhere stated. Everything at Lauderdale Springs was destroyed. The Southern road is completely torn up from Jackson to Meridian. Our informant states that the enemy committed few depredations upon private property, beyond helping themselves to provisions. At Quitman they took bed clothing, but their excuse was that they were misinformed as to the distance, and came without blankets, expecting to return the same day. They are supposed to have carried off about 800 negroes, selecting the likeliest, and in one or two instances driving back some lots that they did not consider eligible. Some persons about Enterprise took the Yankee oath, and accompanied them on their retreat, but this was entirely voluntary, no attempt was made to enforce it. The
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Wanted (search)
here I left my army in splendid heart and condition. We reached Jackson February 6th; crossed Pearl river, and passed through Brandon to Morton, where the enemy made dispositions for battle, but fled in the night. Posted on over all obstacles, and reached Meridian February 14th. General Polk, having a railroad to assist him in his retreat, escaped across the Tombigbee on the 17th. We stayed at Meridian a week, and made the most complete destruction of railroads ever beheld. South from Quitman, East Cuba Station, two miles north to Lauderdale Springs, and went all the way back to Jackson. I could hear nothing of the cavalry force of Gen. Wm Smith, ordered to be there by February 16th. I enclose by mail with this a copy of his instructions. I then began to give back slowly, making a circuit by the north to Canton, where I left the army yesterday. I will leave it there five days, in hopes the cavalry will turn up from Memphis. Major Gen. Butterfield writes from Cairo,