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Prison Experience; or, The Ten
der Mercies of the Yankees.
1 proceed, in accordance with my propo
sal in last week’s Banner, to give some of
the facts connected with my experience and
observations of prison lite, and to show
what meanness and malignity characterize
the treatment which Confederate prisoners
receive at the hands of the Federal military
authorities and their satellites. At the same
time, 1 assure you that to do so is, with me
anything but a labor of love. I hate to re
vert, even in thought, to scenes so repelling
and revolting, and still more do 1 hate to
narrate them. Still I think it important
that S mthrons should know what they have
to look for if ever they be brought under
Federal domination. In what way practical
good may result from such a recital, will at
once occur to the reader as he follows the
narrative.
I remember well with what grumbling
and complaining the owners of negroes re
sponded to the demand of the Government
for a few of them hands to labor on th
works around Nashville, before the fo<
had polluted the soil of Tennessee by hi'
contaminating touch ; but I will venture to
allirm that if these same men, with the ad
vantage of their present experience, could
regain the status qui ante bell-un, where,
before, they reluctantly parted with one
they would now cheerfully give ten negroes
to aid in the construction of works .designed
to resist and repel the enemy’s advance. —
They would be well sttiafied that the in
vestment was the best one they could pus
sihly make. And unless n.y memory is
at fault, ! have read statements copied from
South Carolina or Georgia papers, tending to'
show that there are masters in certain re
gions of one or both of these States who
•would do well to ponder these facts, and
who, if they were wise, might profit by th<
experience of their brethren of Tennessee
f have heard it tJian elessly avowed, and
the fact exulted in with fiendish delight, by
Federa l officers of no mean standing, ih.n,
unless the rebellion be speedily put down,
the Government will send an army, torch
in hand, to carry destruction and desolatim
into every homestead and every region t<>
which they can penetrate, until the entire
land shall become one vast desert, when i>
may be safely left to famine and pes
tilencr to complete the work thus auspi
ciotisly begun ! and there is every reason t<>
believe that this is the programme whict
the Aboliiion Government have marked out
to themselves in the event of certain con
tingencies. Anything, therefore, tending l<
• exhibit the inbred ferocity of the men wh<
iproject such enterprises, and to whom it i>
ithe most coveted distinction to have it in
scribed on their banners and transmitted ii
tfoe traditions of history that they conquer
ed the chivalry of the South, may well
admonish us of the danger of their en
croachments and of the necessity, at any
cost of *fl’>rt and personal sacrifice, of ar
resting their advance and securing theii
ultimate expulsion from Southern soil.
1 cannot but think, also, that so far as
ypri.son treatment is concerned, a little retal
nation might be of some service in suggesting
to Yankee magnanimity the policy of a
more liberal and l<»s severe treatment, a 1
least to the prisoners of war, than they
fthave heretofore been favored wi‘h by theii
captors.
Ju proceeding to give you a statement o'
what I saw and experienced of Yankae cru
elty and oppression in the treatment ol
prisoners, I would state that the condition
of things as I depict them, though prevail
ing through a very large portion of the linn
of my imprisonment, was in one or two
•respects considerably meliorated toward
it* close; indeed if it had not been, pesti
llenoe and disease would quickly have dom
itheir work for us all when the hot
xshould have set in. The improvement to
U>e noted, had reference to systematic ar
raojjemeats lor cleansing the building by'
daily sweeping and periodic washing of tin
times, and a free use ot lime, and the re
moval of the akk to the hospitals, when
they were Mipposed to receive good nursing
and appropriate medical treatment. In
other respect* tilings were about the same
throughout.
The room I occupied was about twenty
five by -ixteen or seventeen feet dimensions,
wiih a low evihng, on the third story of the
building. The number of the inmates va
ri« d with circumstances, hum eight or nine
to thirty, according as prisoners of war wen
brought m or sent on tor < xchange. Myself
.and about four others, who felt that our
partook somewhat of the nature of
permanency, had furnished ourselves with
c niches and bedding, but all the rest had
to make up their b ds on the floor; many
of the prisoners, both citizens and soldiers,
were utterly destitute of any bed clothing,
whatever, not having so m.ucli as a blanket
to shield them from the hard boards. The
soldiers were often rubbed of tiiejrs, ami,
almost invariably in th" capture of citizens,
they were forbidden even to return to their,
houses, it they chanced tmt f.o be in them
al the tune, and in auy event, were never
••flowed to tiring so much us a single ar
tof under clothing with them bey..nd
what, they had on. Bu<ueot them who haj>»
peued to have friends or money, would
uometiuMCS succeed m procuring such things
irturward*. but only with considerable ditti
cully, while <Jie r.st had no alternative but
to submit, as Vest they could, to the haid
ships of their tale. For we« ks together
tin- tl>H<r would be go crowded with men
sicking a resting place, that there would
not appear to i*e au juch of unappropria
ted space left. Ine p.ui'agesot the building
were crowded in like maiHier, so that to
reach the ground fl «»r was a matter of the
greatest diflkulty alter night, and foul J
only t»e accomplished by stepping«« thus*
who were aslrep. Itt making your way
down stairs, in the first the morning, u
«waa almost impossible to avoid Contact with
sag BAaasa.
human excrement. In wet weather—and
we had scarcely anything else during the
winter and spring—the stairs and passages
were covered with mud, and so slippery
that it was difficult to maintain one’s equi
. librium without a cane, or to avoid falling
f* down stairs without clinging to the bamiis
I ters. The roof, moreover, was exceeding! v
leaky, so that our floor was at times flooded,
, and the walls, for days after a heavy rain,
would be saturated with moisture, giving
forth a damp, cold vapor, most unfavorable
to health. The sick were indiscriminately
minified with the healthy,and were furnish
ed neither with medicine nor a physician.
. A convict, who it was said was a regular
’ practising physician ar, Memphis, and whose
crime was counterfeiting, was allowed to
visit and prescribe for the sick ; but to do
so was perfectly optional with him. His
prescriptions~availed but little, except in
erses where the patient by means of friends
in the city, could procure his medicine from
the druggist, for no medicine was provided
by the Federal authorities fur the prisoners.
' No variation of food from the hard, coarse
fare dealt out to us all, was allowed to the
'ick men. We might mostly be ranged into
three classes —the sick, the dying, and the
lead ; for at the time 1 refer to, there was
scarcely a healthy man in the prison, and
almost every diy one or more di< d. Pneu
monia, typhoid fever, small pox, measles,
neuralgia, and rheumatic affections, were
' rhe prevailing diseases, and were uncom
monly fatal. As there was no mercy for
the living, so there was no pity for the dead.
After allowing a dead body to remain for
i day or more on a stretcher in the hall,
it would be taken into a shed in the prison
vard, and there cut open and hacked about
m the most revolting manner by the con
. vict aforesaid, and generally some regimen
al doctor, in the sight of all the prisoners,
uid then thrown naked into a pine coffin
md carted off to the cemetery. I made it
my especial business to ascertain whether i
my scientific end, or any results in any
way beneficial to humanity could beaccom-!
plished by this sort of butchery, and to ’
this end begged a v<-ry accomplished phy
sician and fellow-prisoner, a mess-mate of
my own, Dr. Chawning, a Tennessean, to
watch the peculiar manipulative process of
lissection to which bodies were thus sub
jected, and give me his opinion as to what
its design could be. He assured me that
he had watched it again and again, and was
satisfied that it was simply an act of wan
on mutilation, perpetrated with no other
purpose than to outrage the feelings of the
prisoners, and to do open violence to their
sense of common decency ; forthat itcould
not possibly subserve any scientific purpose
whalever.
Our rations consisted exclusively' of
hard Pilot crackers or st ur light-bread and
ness pork, with occasionally beansand rice, I
md sugar and coffee and black tea. No
green or fresh vegetables of any kind were
dlowed us. And one’s family were not
illowed to send any thing in without a spe
cial permit from the Provost marshal, and
this would not be granted, at any rate to
my family, in one, time, out of twenty. — |
To my wife’s pleading that my health was
delicate, and that 1 could not eat the hard I
crackers nor enjoy the coarse hard meat [
served out to me, he replied that if I was'
unwell 1 might if 1 chbse goto the hospital, I
•ut he could give no permission to my hav
■no nick Hacks sent into the piison. Not'
having had the forecast to provide myself ;
with a lot in the city cemetery, I did not!
iccept the alternative, but chose to subsist i
in hard fare rather than to risk what, from
my own observation, I knew to be a very !
perilous experiment. 11 .ppily for me, for ,
I think I dreaded this beyond any thing else,
I escaped the plague of lice, nor did I con- :
tract auy cu atieous irruption—but some
gentlemen that were not only cleanly but
ven fastidious in their person .1 habits were
less fortunate. As for that class which, as
I have shown, had not the means of main
uiming habits of personal neatness, they |
. suffered in this way most fearfully. And
this is the treatment which a nation claiming
io lead the vanguard of modern vivihzition
visits upon m a whom its caprice, and not i
th ir offences, has subjected to an ignomin
’ ioiis captivity.in its bastiles !
‘ Among the other penalties incurred by
those who have the misfortune t<> be prison
ers of the Yankees, is the liability to have
the female members of their family, when
’ they visit them, insulted, not only by the
vulgarity, but l»y the gross obscenity ot
:he guards who admit them. One very
shocking case of this kind, oevurr. d on the
occasion of a visit of his mother and sis er>
to a young gentleman who was a lieutenant i
iu the Confed-rale service, and whose fami
ly ranks among the most respectable in j
1 Nashville. I am not, of course, going to j
repeat this balderdash, but will only sax ‘
that the fact of its having been uttered is !
’ attested by several gemlemen who were
’ standing by, and whose veracity is above
siißpici<u’. But the sist rs and mother de- ,
moaned themselves like true ladies as they I
’ are, and heard nothing which it is not pro I
’ per for a lady to hear. For outrages ot
’ iliis kind, there is no redress; for the offi
‘ | cers in charge are in no wise distinguishable |
{from the jiptiruted ruffians that they com-j
maud except by badges they wear.
J NO. TOVELL.
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OkdimA.xWK.w’rGeurge I‘. Williams, who
has been laboring us colporteur in th- artny
. ! of Tennessee, was recently ordained to the
Christian ministry, in connection with the!
’ Baptist church at Greenville, 8. C-
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[From 'he New York Record.]
Mliicli is Must Hum liathig, Peace
or War ?
After more than two \ ears of a fratricidal
war, there are some in the North who are
-till not. only in favor of its vigorous pros
ecution, but who denounce as traitors and
secessionists all those who are bold enough
to advocate peace as the only means left of
preserving the Northern States from the
horrors of a fixed military despotism. These
men insist that the war shall still go on—
that tens, and if need be, hundreds of thou?
sands shall be added to the holocaust already
offered up at the shrine of Abolitionism ;
that the press must be silenced; that the
liberty of speech must be. suppressed ; that
all our constitutional guarantees must be
held in abeyance until the South is thor
oughly subdued. They are the last-dollar
in the-treasury men—the firm supporters of
ihe Administration —the advocates of a
strong government, who allow no one to be
right but themselves, and who insist that
peace upon any other terms than the com
plete submission of the South would be hu
mdiating and degrading to the North.—
They presume to have the honor of the
country in their keeping, and from their
judgment there must be no appeal.
Now, does any one imagine that these
men are willing of themselves to make anv
sacrifices in support of their own policy ?
Who are they that talk to us in this dicta
torial, domineering sty le ? They arc the
officials of the Government, the shoddy
contractors, the men who are making their
profits out of fbis lavish expenditure of
blood and money. They are in favor of the
war policy, because it adds to ifieir ill-got
ten gains. It is they who threaten the ad
vocates of peace with all the terrors of the
Washington tyranny. It is they, and such
as they, who talk of the disgrace and hu
iniliatiou of entering into negotiaiions wiih
i “rebels in arms.” B.it what greater humil
iation and disgrace could befall a country
j than to be governed by such a set of imbe-
I ciles, such traitors to the Constitution, as
■ the men in Washington ? What could be
more humiliating to a free people than the
deprivation of their rights—than the occur
rence of such acts as have been committed
in the West Uy the mili’ary satraps, Burn
sida and Hascall ? Whit could be more
degrading than the. position in which we
have been placed before the woi Id by the
wretched minions and tools of a would-be
irresponsible despotism ? Are we so desi
rous of still greater humiliations than those
which have already befallen us? If we are,
then let the war go on, let the c inscription
be carried into operation without opposi
tion. Let our brave and unjustly treated
volunteers be slaughtered by tens ot thou
sands, and their families starve at home for
want of the pay to which they are fairly
entitled, but which is withheld that contract
ors may not be kept waiting; let the citi
zens’ last weapon against tyrany —tne vote
by ballot—be overthrown by the bayonet.
Let all this be done if we are in favor of a
prolongation of hostilities, but let us not be
told that any peace could be more humili
ating than a war carried on at such a fearful
sacrifice to human liberty and the rights of
American citizenship.
Humiliating! Look at the national cap
itol; look at the intrigues that are going on
there against the sovereignty of the States,
and against the perpetuity of free institu
tions! Read of the doings of the wretched
i cabal, and do not wonder that such men as
Hooker and Burnside, and Hunter and llal
. leek are allowed t » play their pranks before
. high Heaven. Look and estimate if you
can the character of the man who can tell
i his ribald jests while the country is bleeding
iat every pore. Look there and wonder
! not that the humiliation of the country
should be the subject of a boast with his
Secretary of State, who, claiming to be. a
freeman among freemen, coolly informed a
foreign minister that by merely touching
the bell at his right hand he could order the
j arrest of any citizen of the North. Could
he do it with a c<tizen of the South ? A’o /
for the dominions of the military despotism
ot Washington do not extend toithin the lines
of the Confederate forces.
Tnis war must < ease it we do not desire i
a still greater humiliation ; this war mii-tl
cease if we would preserve our free institu
lions ; this war must c-ase if we would not
be ground down to the earth with the bur
dens of an excessive taxation; and, finally,
this war must cease if we would >vo d civil
strife and anarchy in our Northern Stat--*.
\ND IT WILL CEASE FROM SHEER
NECESSITY.
Tile people have at last Income aroused
j;o a true sense of their danger. They now i
' ully understand the character of the men 1
i who have driven the ship of State among
i the breakers. Their patience is exhausted ,
i —their forbearance gone, their Confidence |
' undermined, and their suspicions at lust
: hilly and actively urous d. Upon whom, 11
I hen, is the Gov i rnmeni io r» ly tor means
I with which to contiutje. th s war ? Rit op ,
the men who exclaim against peace as hu h
I uiltating ? Is it on the Abolitluiibls, under |
i the lead of such menus Lloy d Garrison, : f
and Wendell Phillips, and Beecher, an i |
Cherver? Is it, in a word, on the contract
ors and collectors, and Government officials h
1 tviirrally who are so sensitive with regard | i
t r the honor of the country? No, no; ,
i hese are not the men who are readv to put |
hemselves in jeopardy , so long as they can ,
purchase exemptions fr -m the draft by the
_>ay meut us three hundred dollars* worth of <
;revti-backs. We appeal to you, mechanics
md laborers, whose families are dependent <
! upon yo.ir honest toil for support, if you
.re willing to sacrifice yourselves for the •
urther enslavement of the white matt, and
be emancipation of a race whom President. i
1 jineolu has told you could m»t exist in the. ;
-ante community without injury to your
.elves I Those anti-peace men talk to y>u
•f humiliation, while tens, aye, hundreds< f
housaiids have been reduced, by the loss
»f their protectors, tuthe b.tter humili iti«-u
us destitution aud poverty . What sacriikts
have they made that they should oppose
> the reestablishment of peace ? Ah! rather
a-k how much would they lose by the dis-
I continuance of the war ?
; Yes', this war must cease for want of the
• means no carry it on. The conscription is
I already a failure, and any attempt to enforce
i it in the North may pncipitate a revolu
f tion in which the Administration will inev
itably go down. There ar/i at the present
time hardly four hundred thousand effective
men in the field; the South is still invinci
ble, still defiant; Hooker still leads the
army of the Potomac ; Burnside commands
in the West, and Stanton and Halleck still
rule the War Department; while over all
presides the jocular and mirth provoking
Executive, with a new joke for every defeat
and a flow of animal .-pirit that no reverses
or calamity can subdue. Who, then, talks
ot a further prolongation of the war? Are
men to be stamped out of the earth? Will
the citizens of the N..rth submit to be driv
en like sheep to the Gambles? Although
the people thus far have submitted to great
humiliation, we do not believe that they
are prepared to yield their birthrights with
out a desperate struggle.
If the conscripti.-n is attempted to be
enforced, the flumes ol a civil war will be
enkindled within the borders us the North
ern States. The Administration may think
that it will be easy to suppress a popular
uprising by the aid of the army ; but we
tell them if they n ly upon the army for the
enslavement of their fellow citizens, they
will find that they are leaning upon a bro
ken reed. The army are of the people and
with the people, and the brave fellows who
compose it cannot be converted into the
tools of the despots at Wa'hington. Tne
ties of kindred, the home affections that
twine around their hearts, the associations
of their youth and of their manhood, all
these bind them to the respective States ot
which they are citizens, and any attempt by
the Administration to divorce them from
these sacred influences will fail, utterly,
wholly, ignominiously tail. The Wa>hing
ton-authoriiies have indetd been reduced io
desperate straits, and we believe that a gen
eral feeling of trepidation and alarm pre
vails in the White House and its surround
ings. They may, however, attempt to
intimidate the people by a still further dis
play <»f military force like that which took
place at Indianapolis, at Newark, and ai
other places; but by so doing they will but
expose their weakness the more, for in a
contest between ihe States and the G neral
Government we,have the as-urance of Mad
is »n and Hamilton that tne States will
inevitably be victorious.
Let the peace men, then, have no fears
for the future. This war is near its termin
ation. It is a fixed fact that the force in
the field is entirely Hindi quate to its further
prosecution.
Rosencrans is in want of reinforcements;
Banks is in want of reinforcements; Hook
er is in want of reinforcements ; Grant is
in want of reinforcements. Tw’o years’
and nine months’ men a.e returning to their
homes. The Administration dire not en
force the conscript act; huge'peace meetings
are being held all over the North; Ma>.-a
chusetls is twenty thousand behind her
quota; the enormous bounties fa 1 in indu
cing men to recruit; the people are becom
ing exceedingly uneasy under the develop
ment of the tax law; the. imbecility and
incompetency of the Executive and his
Cabinet council have Income fixed facts in
ihe popular mind; the action of some of
the State courts, deciding that treasury
notes are not legal tenders, have shaken the
confidence ot the people in greenback'; and
finally, we believe that ibis same peopb
are far ahead ot their leaders in their desire
ami demand for pcMce.
But, it is asked, how is peace to be
brought about? In the first place we must
have an armistice, t hen aconventiun between
the commissioners appoint-d to negotiate
I he terms of peace between the two repub
lics. We endeavored in la't week’s issue
to suggest the terms upon which a perma
nent peace might be established ; and we
frankly b« lieve that these terms form the
most practical basis of settlement. To some
such arrangement as this He must eventu
ally co’i-e, even 'hould the war be protiivi
ed for two years m .re
If we are ever to have a Union again, i*
will, as we h;ve already slated, and as we !
firmly believe, take the form of an alliance!
between the two republics agair st the in-!
trigues, »-nd, it may be, the attempted)
domination of for- igu powers in the affairs ;
of this continent, and such an alliance may j
eventually lead to re union on a different, i
but, let us tr ust, a stronger and more v»du ),
ling basis.
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The Love of Christ.
It but one or two of the shallowest waves
'hould roll in upon the shore ot your heart 1
from the ocean of G >d’s love in C u is\ y <»u
would shake off* your unbelieving fear.-, and <
run after God, L.ngmg to be bath, d in the 1
Ui.fathomable ocean <<t that i>.ve. D d vou
know in any measure “what is the breadth, <
and length, and depth, and height, ot the i
love of Cm i-t which passeth knowledge,” i
you would flee into the embrace of Hisev ■
erl isting arms w ith bold awe.a: d confident 1
reverence. What baubles, gewgaws, »-mp j
ty shadows, (he pleasures, the profits, the !
honors of this World are! (>h ! tlißt we
may tread them under foot, that we may ;
ahi Christ ! Que giintpae of Christ’s ex
cellency and glory would make us sick ot <
longing and thirstmgs aft<T the Qi.jo. ment
of this love. Did we b i*, see a i.iijlu nth
part of the loveliness ot Him who *‘is alto
gether loVelv,*’ we would cry
"Wtiotn have I in heaven but Trice ’ and 1
there is none upon earth th.it 1 desire be
side 1 nee. ’ S Hematite
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E der Daniel Morris, or the 14th regi-<
nieiit cava ry, Ist irxas Brigade, is duly
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’ RAILKOAD GUIDE.
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• Georgia Bailroad & Banking Co
» Avgusta to Atlanta.... 171 Miles.... Fake |8 00
5 GEORGE YONGE, Superintendent.
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Morning Passenger Traill.
(SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.)
‘ Leave Atlanta al 7 00 A. M
t Arrive at Augusta at & 47 P. Jf
, Leave Augu-la daily at 7 W) A. -di
Arrive at Atlanta at 0 00 P. M
Passenger Train.
Leave Atlanta daily at 6 30 P. M
Arrive at Aug tstaat 5 30 A. M
Leave Augusta al B 00, P. ?f
Arrive at Atlanta at 5 10 A. M
This road runs in connection with the trains ot
i the tSoutli Carolina aud the Savanuah and August*
• Railroads, at Augusta.
• -
Macon and Western Bailroad.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
Macon to Atlanta.... 104 Miles.... Fare 15 CO,
ALFRED L. TYLER, Superintendent.
■Leave Maron at 9 00 a. nt
Arrive at Atlanta at. 4 00 p. nt
Leave Atlanta at 6 3 > a. nt
Arrive at Vtaeon 12 54 p. nt
This train connects wit" Central, Southwestern
and Masco-ee railroads at Macon.
»
Western & Atlantic (State) Railroads
Atlanta to Chattanooga, 188 Miles—Fare,.. .$5.
JOHN S. ROWLAND, Superintendent.
PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, nightly, at 7 TO, P M
Arrives at Chattanooga at 4.14, A M
Leaves Chattanooga at 450, P M
Arrives at Atlanta at 2.38, A M
EXPRESS FREIGHT AND PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, daily, at 6.45, A
Arrives at Chattanooga at 6.25, P
Leaves Chattauooga at 4 25, A M
Arrives at Atlanta" at 4 20, P : L
ACCOMMODATION PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta <t - 2.40 P M.
Arrives at Kingston at - - - bSOP M.
Leave- K nasion at - - - - 43uA. M.
Arrives at Atlanta at - - - - 9.25 A. M.
This Road connects, each way, with the Roma
Branch Railroad at Kingston, the East Tennessee
and Georgia Railroad at Dalton, and theNashviD®
t Chattanooga Railroad at Chattanooira.
Atlanta and West Point Bailroad.
Atlanta to West Point 87 Miles Fare (4 25
GEORG h. 3. HULL, Superintendent.
MORNING PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta, daily, al 5.30, A M
Arrives at West-Point at 11.07, Alt
Leaves West-Point, daily, at 12.10, P M
Arrives al Atlanta at 5.28, A M
EVENING PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leaves Atlanta 6 30, P. M.
Arrive at West Point - - - . 51.58, P. M.
Leaves West Point - - - - 100, P. M.
Arrives at Atlanta - - - - 6 20, P. M,
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s BQOK-BIN.BERY. *
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All kinds of Printing executed in the bm*tjle. t
Addicts J. J. IGA K a <O., I Top Victoria
riAIKUM BUILDING,
TA) GEOR° t#k '
Morgan and his Men !
I Leg leave to announce to the pub
lic. that I have just finished the publication ot the
first t’REAT NbVEL of thia second War of
Independence—entitled ,
•‘RAIDS AND ROMANCE OF MORGAN AND
ILS MEN,”
by SALLY ROCHESTER FORD, of Louisville,
the author of * Grace Truman? ‘ Majy Banyan,’
• Romam-e of Free Masonry? Arc., Ac.
Complete in one volume, at $3 50.
The reader will be rratified to enjoy all the ex
eitine interest of a fir»t das* standard of romance,
and al the information of a correct history. 3he
historian will find it a valuable reference-book at
present, as well as for times to come.
Considering it as a work of art, it happens so,
that this is. so far. the FIRST
ORIG NAL LITERARY WORK
ol note that this war has produced, and this con
federacy issued.
On account of the scarcity of m"te»i*lis. we were
compelled to reduce this edition to a very limited
number; and it is very uncertain. for the same
reason, when we m'ghl be able to publish a second
—hence all tho-e who'wish to secure a copy of
that Historical Novel will do well to call in time.
S. 11. GOETZEL. Publisher.
June -0 -It Mobile. Alabama.
“Stonewall ” Jackson !
JUST PUBLISHED, and for rate by N. 8. MORSE A CO.,
•J Au u-ti. Geo ci»,
A CoMPLEiE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
OF
“STONEWALL” JACKSON,
By Chables Hillock : Being a full and .icrtr- £
rate account of the Leading E«ent* oi bis Life,,
ms Dting Mou ruts. and the Obsequies at Ki&h
u.oiid and Lexington.
This work contains many Anecdote* ot tdte illu.*-
triou- Soldier lhal have never before t»en published.
For sale l»y all Book-Stores and News- Agent*.—
Pr.. e $1 »*>.
The trade suppl e-1 at a liberal diseminu
All orders addressed to u» promptly Sited.
N. S. MORs£ & CO,
J une 27. Auyuda. ffa.