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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 81 (search)
Sherman's flank movements.--General Sherman's strategy in flanking the rebels out of their strong positions, puzzles the natives a good deal.
A young woman said it was not fair to fight the Southern soldiers on end.
She then went on to say that the day before General Bragg had formed two streaks of fight in their door-yard with walking soldiers, and General Wheeler formed one streak of fight with critter soldiers --meaning cavalry — behind the house, but that Joe Hooker had come up and flanked Bragg, and made him fall back, which he did in such a hurry, that he upset dad's ash-hopper plant, which cost two dollars and fifty cents in Atlanta; and dad was a-goina to sue Bragg for waste.
This a fair specimen of the way these poor people think and talk.
They do not generally display half the intelligence the slaves do.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 104 (search)
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 126 (search)
A stirring Appeal to the women.--From copies of Savannah and Columbus (Ga.) papers is taken the following:
to the women of Georgia.
Atlanta, Feb. 5, 1864.--A report has been put in circulation in various portions of the State, that the socks knit by the ladies of Georgia for this department have been sold by me to the troops on the field.
Without entering into the details of this vile and malicious report, I hereby pronounce the whole tale to be a malicious falsehood!
I deny, and challenge the world for proof to the contrary, that there has ever been a sock sold by this department to a soldier of the confederate army since my first appeal to the women of Georgia to knit for their destitute defenders.
I hereby bind myself to present one thousand dollars to any person — citizen or soldier — who will come forward and prove that he ever bought a sock from this department that was either knit by the ladies or purchased for issue to said troops.
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