CLARKE COUNTY
[AL] JOURNAL
November 13, 1862—January 19, 1865
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 13, 1862, p. 1, c. 3
Soldiers'
Clothing.
Persons desirous of furnishing clothing to any of the members of my
command can do so by leaving them with the Judge of Probate of this county, and
I will send a man after them. Jackets,
pants, socks and shoes are mostly needed. Let
the clothing be of a dark color and if possible trimmed with yellow.
Early as possible.
S. B. Cleveland, Capt. Cavalry,
Col. Wirt Adams' Regiment.
July 31, '62.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Circular
Letter.
Executive Department,
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Montgomery, Ala., Aug 26, '62.
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To the Soldier's Aid Societies, and the Women of Alabama:
In consequence of the difficulty of providing our soldiers now in the
field with socks for the coming fall and winter, I have to appeal to the Aid
Societies, and generally to the women of Alabama, through whose patriotic labors
our troops up to this time have been kept in the field.
There are full fifty thousand of these troops to be provided for, and it
cannot be done without your assistance. Those
who are able, it is confidently hoped, will supply them gratuitously, for a
large proportion of the army cannot pay for their clothing out of the allowance
made by the Confederate Government, at the high prices induced by extortion and
speculation.
Those who cannot afford to furnish them gratuitously, will be paid at the
rate of fifty cents a pair for heavy cotton, and seventy-five cents for woolen
socks.
The Aid Societies and Judges of Probate throughout the State, will act as
receiving agents and will forward at the expense of the State to General Duff
Green, Quartermaster, Mobile; or to Col. Wm. R. Pickett, Assistant
Quartermaster, Montgomery, who will make the payment for all except gratuitous
contributions.
The State cannot undertake to forward contributions to individuals, but
those made to companies will be forwarded from Montgomery without cost to the
donors.
John Gill Shorter.
Governor of Alabama.
Sept. 4, 1862.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
The dry weather of the last few weeks has greatly facilitated the
manufacture of salt in our County—causing perhaps a slight reduction in the
price of the article. During last
week prices ranged from $15 to $20 per bushel.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Capt. Cleveland's Company.—Mr. Henry Lovett, of Capt. Cleveland's
Cavalry Company, is now in this County for the purpose of procuring clothing,
shoes, blankets &c., for the men. Persons
should have their articles at the Office of the Probate Judge by the middle of
next week, as Mr. Lovett will return about that time.
Do your best for the needy soldiers.
The Company is at Greenville, on the Mississippi river, a considerable
distance above Vicksburg.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
The Selma Reporter learns that the State Salt Works, under the management
of Mr. A. G. McGhee, are manufacturing 1,000 bushels of salt per day.
Subtract 900 from the Reporter's figures and the result will be the
proper number.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 2
Dickinson Guards.—The friends of this company are notified that Lieut.
S. P. Chapman has returned to the County for the purpose of obtaining clothing,
shoes &c. for the company. They
are sadly in want of such articles, and we trust that a sufficiency may be
obtained to render the company comfortable for the winter.
All articles must be left at the Office of the Probate Judge by the 20th
inst. in order that they may be packed in the same box.
The Company is also in much need of blankets, quilts, &c.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
We are in receipt of a letter from s. T. Woodard, Captain of the Grove
Hill Guards, in which he states that the Company is greatly in need of Clothing,
Shoes, Blankets, &c. Friends
and the public are appealed to to furnish such articles or many are bound to
suffer during the approaching winter. Articles,
boxed up and directed to the Company, will be forwarded from Montgomery, by Gov.
Shorter, free of charge.—We trust something may be done for them as soon as
possible.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 13, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
Grove Hill, Ala., Oct. 22, 1862.
Mr. Isaac Grant,
I have just received a letter from an officer in McKinstry's Regiment,
stating that at the battle of Lavergne the soldiers from this County lost all
their clothing, and desiring an appeal made to their friends for aid.—They are
in a needy condition—have suffered much recently—are in a cold climate
(Tennessee) and their present destitute circumstances appeals in the strongest
possible language to their friends. Contributions
in the way of clothing must be furnished them without delay.
I will take great pleasure in sending to them as early as possible any
thing their friends may desire to send, if deposited in the Probate Office of
the County. The simple statement of
their condition is the strongest appeal that can be made.
James S. Dickinson.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 27, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
An editor out West is so hard run to get paper that he furnished his
subscribers with the news printed on the white side of wallpaper, the other side
being embellished with beautiful landscapes, views and grotesque figures.
Verily the times are hard on the "art preservative of all
arts."
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, December 4, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
A correspondent of the London Times says about the word "skeedaddle,"
a reputed addition to Yankee vocabulary, is of common use in Dumfreeshire and
means to spill in small quantities.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, December 4, 1862, p. 2, c. 3
Suggsville, Nov. 8, 1862.
List of articles contributed by each lady of the "Soldiers' Aid
Society," since its organization, August 23 [?], 1861: . . .
H. P. Callier, 2 pr socks, 1 of blankets, 2 of drawers, 1 shirt, 1
spread, 1 bunch silk.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, December 11, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Coal oil or Kerosene oil is said to be an excellent remedy for
diphtheria. The throat should be
rubbed with the oil freely and frequently.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, December 11, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
Cotton Cards are now made in Cartersville, Ga., by Divino, Jones &
Lee, at the rate of 30 per day and will soon increase to 50.
They exchange 1 pair of cards for 6 hard tanned sheep skins, which are
used in making the cards.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, December 11, 1862, p. 2, c. 1
The Selma Reporter says Col. C. C. Smith of Oak Grove, has been selling
shoes and leather since the war begun, at a very small advance on old prices.
He now furnishes good, substantial russets at $1 ½, and a first-rate
article of soldiers' shoes at $3 ½. For
leather of the best kind he has never asked more than 40 cents per pound.
All honor to Col. C. C. Smith!
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, December 11, 1862, p. 2, c. 4
The Eagle Mills, Ga., are turning out 2000 yards heavy grey tweeds,
daily, for the Government, besides quantities of cotton duck and oil cloth.
The tweeds furnish two regiments a week with clothing.
The duck is for tents and the oil cloth for knapsacks.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, December 18, 1862, p. 1, c. 2
Tanyard.
Intending
to re-open the Tan Yard, near Suggsville, I will give 12 ½ cents for Good Dry
Hides, to be paid in Shoes or Leather when tanned, or will tan on shares, one
half for the other. Hides wanted
immediately.
L. A. Callier.
Jan. 9, 1862.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, January 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
The
Yankees Worse than Savages.
The Richmond Enquirer publishes the following official history, as
received at the War Department, of a most revolting and savage barbarity
perpetrated by Yankee soldiers:
The deponents are Caswell Woods and his wife Elizabeth, of the County of
Craven.—Mr. woods is certified to by Gen Evans as being "a respectable
citizen and loyal to our cause, which, with his being a poor man, seems to be
the only causes of the fiendish outrages by the hellish savages."
It is also stated that he is a class leader in the Methodist church.
It is due to the civilized world and to outraged humanity that the facts
stated in these depositions should be known, and yet they are too infamously
obscene to be fu7lly described in a newspaper.
The house of these quiet and aged citizens was visited on the night of
the 2d of October last by two Yankee troopers, armed with pistols and sabres.—One
of them (the younger) who was addressed by the other as "Captain" and
sometimes as "John," rode into the piazza, burst open the front door,
and then rode into the house.—The other, who was addressed by the
"Captain" sometimes as "Charlie," sometimes as
"George" and "Lieutenant," walked in.
Mr. Woods had retired to bed. We
copy from his deposition:
"I came down stairs in a hurry, in my night clothes, and one on the
horse said to me, 'You d----d old grayheaded son of a b---h, where were you day
before yesterday?' and when I told him I was at home, he said 'You lie, for you
shot at me.' Upon this pretence
they cut out the cord from a bed in the room, said they would hang him, but
finally tied him to a tree, with the treat of instant death if he made any
outcry or attempted to get loose. They
returned to the house and locked the door after them, and the old man had the
inexpressible agony of listening for the rest of the night to the screams and
doleful lamentations of his wife and daughter.
The statement made by Mrs. Woods in her deposition of what passed inside
is truly heartrending. The
unparalleled villains made the poor helpless women not merely the victims of
their brutal lust, but accompanied the outrage, which is worse than death, with
circumstances that mark them as the most devilish even among the most abandoned
of villains. Commencing by cursing
Jesus Christ, with pistol in hand and with threat of instant death, the deponent
was required by one of the beasts to divest herself of every particle of
clothing. But this was almost
christian treatment compared with other acts which may not be related. While such was her own sufferings, the shrieks of her
daughter in another room told that hers was a similar fate. About sunrise the next morning the human devils departed.
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It is with pain that such as the above is admitted into the columns of
the Enquirer. But it is due to our own people and to the world that the
villanies of our enemies should be known. The
depositions have been laid before us with the suggestion endorsed thereon by the
Adjutant General, "that so much of this account as is not too foul for
publication, should be given to the public through the press, in order that the
righteous indignation of our people, our General and our armies, may, under the
providence of God, visit a just retribution upon an enemy so fiend like."
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, January 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Cotton Card Manufactory.—We learn from the Atlanta Confederacy that a
full set of machines for manufacturing Cotton Cards has been run through the
blockade, and arrived at Columbus, Ga. This
makes the second card making machine that has been brought into Georgia by the
enterprise of the citizens.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, January 8, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Another
Appeal to the Women of Alabama.
Executive Department of Alabama
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Montgomery, 7th Dec. 1862.
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The troops of this State who are bravely defending your liberties, in the
mountains of Virginia and Tennessee, are suffering for blankets.
The Confederate Government is unable to supply them in sufficient
quantity. I must again appeal to
the women of Alabama, who have so well sustained their part in this revolution,
to give up their carpets, their remaining blankets, and such other suitable
bedclothing as they can spare to the cause of independence.
A ready response to this appeal is certain to increase the efficiency of
our troops and alleviate their sufferings.
It may save the lives of thousands.
The articles contributed should be sent to Duff C. Green, Q. M. General,
Mobile; Geo. C. Lyon, Esq., Demopolis; E. L. Johnson & Co., Selma; W. B.
Pickett, A. Q. M., Montgomery, and Robert W. Colchart, Huntsville, or to the
Judges of Probate of Counties, who will forward them as above at the expense of
the State.
John Gill Shorter,
Governor of Alabama.
N.B.—All papers in the State will give this appeal one insertion and
forward their account to the Executive Office.
John B. Taylor,
Private Secretary.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, January 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
How an Approaching Roundshot Looks.
A young cavalry friend at our elbow, (says the Rebel Banner,) tells us
that at the battle of Shiloh he saw a roundshot coming in the direct "line
of sight," it looked like an illuminated ball of blue haze, and the next
moment passed between him and his horse's head, completely bewildering both for
some moments.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, January 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Yankee Cruelty.—A gentleman from Western Virginia, (says the Richmond
Dispatch,) states that two or three young ladies are imprisoned in the jail in
Wheeling, and are tied to the floor, on the charge of disloyal sentiments
and practices. Such outrages upon humanity call for the prompt action of our
Generals in the West, not upon women, but upon the first male subjects of
Pierpont and Lincoln who fall into our hands.
They should tie up the first dozen Yankees they capture to the trees, and
keep them tied till these young ladies are released.
No measure short of this will ever teach the brutal enemy the first
principles of civilization.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, January 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
A Female Soldier.—Among the strange, heroic and self sacrificing acts
of woman in this struggle for our independence, we have heard of one which
exceeds the bravery displayed and hardships endured by the subject of this
notice, Mrs. Amy Clark. Mrs. Clark
volunteered with her husband as a private, fought through the battles of Shiloh
where Mr. Clark was killed—she performing the rites of burial with her own
hands. She then continued with Bragg's army in Kentucky, fighting in
the ranks as a common soldier, until she was twice wounded—once in the ankle
and then in the breast, when she fell a prisoner into the hands of the Yankees.
Her sex was discovered by the Federals, and she was regularly paroled as
a prisoner of war, but they did not permit her to return until she had donned
female apparel. Mrs. Clark was in
our city on Sunday last, en route for Bragg's command.—[Mississippian.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, January 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch makes the following
astounding statement:
"There is not a shadow of doubt that our officers have been picked
out and shot by their own man on the battle field, in numberless instances, to
gratify private grudge. A staff
officer, in conversation with me on this very subject, stated that he had been
informed by a surgeon, who had gone over the battle field at Antietam, that he
found to his great horror and surprise that nearly all the officers killed were
wounded from behind!—Alas, what a heavy reckoning!"
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, January 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Dr. J. H. Vaughan, Examining Surgeon for this District, will be at
Jackson on the 21st and 22d inst. for the purpose of examining
conscripts who claim exemption on account of ill health. It
would have been better if he had visited our county earlier, as many of our
conscripts between the ages of 35 and 40 have already been sent off.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, January 29, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Cotton cards are being manufactured in Williamson County, Texas, and are
pronounced by judges to be good.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, February 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
In a short time the Governor of Georgia will have five or six machines
completed for manufacturing cotton cards.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, February 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Warning
to Wives.
Under this caption a writer in the Selma Reporter, signed Sydney, remarks
as follows:
A few weeks ago, a soldier was tried and convicted of the crime of
desertion, and sentenced to be shot. He
was taken to the place of execution, and the preparations being soon completed,
at the word "fire!" he fell a bloody corpse at the hands of his
comrades. I was curious to know why he deserted, and I learned that his
wife was the cause. He received a
letter from her full of complaints. Looking
alone upon the dark side of the picture, she had magnified her troubles and
sufferings, and earnestly entreated her husband to return home.
He became restless, discontented, unhappy.
He ceased to take any interest in the discharge of his military duties
and thought only of how he could get home.
His solemn oath never to desert troubled him much, and he well knew the
crime of desertion had become so frequent in the army it would be punished with
death. In this state of perplexity he drew his wife's letter from
his bosom and read it again, and shutting his eyes to the consequences, he deserted!
and for this crime he suffered a bloody and ignominious death.
His wife is now a widow. Tortured
with the thought that her husband was brought to an untimely end by her own
imprudence, she knows no peace of mind. True,
she had been deprived of many of the comforts of life, and had many sure trials,
and anxiously desired the return of her husband, but now she feels that she had
exaggerated her trials and sufferings, and she would give the world to recall
that fatal letter which tempted her husband from his duty.
But it is too late—it cannot be recalled—and the grief and agony of
his heart broken woman are inexpressible. She
inconsiderately brought her husband to a dishonorable death and refuses to be
comforted.
Wives! Mothers! beware
what you write to your husbands and sons in the army.—A thoughtless and
imprudent letter may lead to discontent, desertion and death.
Our soldiers have oils and hardships and trials enough of their own to
bear, do not burden them with the history of your troubles and complaints.
They cannot aid you—it does no good—it may do much harm.—When you
write say nothing, I beseech you, which may embitter their thoughts, weaken
their arms, depress their courage, or tempt them from the path of patriotic duty
to death and dishonor.
Encourage them, cheer their hearts, fire their souls, arouse their
patriotism, but do not disturb and harass their minds with unavailing murmurs
and complaints. To our noble
hearted women we are indebted for the victories we have won, and for the
unconquerable strength of our armies.—They have made many sacrifices and
endure many hardships, but they are ready to do and bear and suffer still more
in behalf of their bleeding country.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, February 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Our
Indigent Families.
The indigent families of soldiers of our county, will be glad to learn
that James S. Dickinson, Esq., has just returned from Marengo County where he
spent some time soliciting contributions of corn and money in their behalf. He informed the Board of County Commissioners on Monday last
that he had a list of contributions from liberal and patriotic citizens of
Marengo amounting in the aggregate to 2,450 bushels of corn, besides a sum of
money which we do not recollect.
We think Clarke County has discharged her whole duty to the country in
the contest for independence which is now taxing the nation's resources of men
and means to their utmost capacity. Hence
we are glad to observe every effort making for the sustenance and comfort of the
dear ones her brave sons have left at home in our charge.
We will endeavor to publish in our next paper a list of contributions by
citizens of Marengo county in aid to the needy families of soldiers in our
county. We desire to publish the
names of those patriotic and charitable citizens, in order that the public may
know who they are and that others may be induced to emulate their good deeds.
Our Commissioners' Court appropriated a sum of money for the purchase of
sacks in which to ship the corn to this county.
They also requested Mr. Dickinson to continue his valuable patriotic and
charitable labors in aid of the needy families of our brave men in the field.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, February 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
Hat
Manufactory, near Grove Hill.
Persons from a distance desiring fine hats, must furnish the fur with
which to make them, as it is very difficult to obtain a supply in this section.
The undersigned can furnish the material for wool hats.
D. D. Dawson, Hatter.
Feb. 26, '63.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, March 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 3-4
A
Hero on Crutches.
Some weeks ago the Richmond correspondent of the Charleston Mercury,
alluding to Bishop Elliott's proposition for a monument to the unknown dead,
said "the topic of unknown heroes was frequently introduced in
conversation, and mentioned a number of these heroes, among them a cavalry man
from Texas, who, unable to walk a step, carries a pair of crutches on horseback,
and with them has continued to perform all the arduous duties required of
him." Our correspondent, (says
the Mercury,) little dreamed that this unknown dragoon would prove to be not
only the most heroic of all the heroes of the war, but a poet of a high order
besides. The following letter,
addressed to the Mobile Register & Advertiser, reads like a romance, yet
bears upon its fact the evidence of truth.
We copy it as a just tribute to a gallant soldier:
This soldier is Lamar Fontaine, a private in the Campbell Rangers, 2d
Regiment Virginia Cavalry. He is
the eldest son of the Rev. Edward Fontaine, an Episcopal Minister residing near
Jackson, Miss., who commanded the Burt Rifles of the 18th Regiment
Mississippi Volunteers, in the first battle of Manassas, and who is honorably
mentioned in Gen. Beauregard's report of it.
He was born in Washington County, Texas, in 1841, while his parents
resided there, and was named after his father's intimate friend, Gen. Mirabeau
Lamar. Previous to the present
revolution, Lamar Fontaine lived in his native State, was educated in Austin,
and at the Military Academy in Bastrop, and learned, practically, the most
essential duties of a soldier as a Texas Ranger and hunter on the frontiers of
Western Texas, where he was unsurpassed as a dexterous rider and skillful
marksman. As soon as the war
commenced he came to Mississippi and enlisted as a private in the first company
organized for the defence of the State, the Mississippi Rifles, of Jackson,
commanded by Capt. Robt. Smith, the heroic Col. Smith who fell at Mumfordsville,
Ky. Under this excellent officer he
served at Pensacola as an infantry soldier, and then as an artillerist until he
was transferred to his father's company in the Army of the Potomac.
At the battle of Manassas he was severely wounded by a cannon shot, which
passed under his feet, bruising one of them so badly that he was unsuited to
further duty as an infantry soldier. Finding
that he was unwilling to be discharged, his father procured him a transfer to
Capt. Alexander's Company I, 2d Regiment Virginia Cavalry.
Under Generals Jackson and Ewell he distinguished himself in the battles
of Front Royal, Cross Keys, and all the actions of the Valley.
Near Winchester, in company with a young gentleman from Campbell County,
Va., (private John Moore,) he performed a feat without a parallel in the annals
of war, and which is mentioned with the highest commendation in Gen. Ewell's
official report. These two young
men, unassisted and lone, charged a piece of artillery planted on the Winchester
Turnpike, manned by eight of the enemy, killed and wounded two of their number,
drove the rest from the gun and brought it off in triumph to their commander.
Near Strasburg a shell exploded against his horse's head, blowing it to
atoms and breaking Lamar's thigh. While
his comrades were carrying him from the field, another shell wounded him
severely in the hip. Soon after his
wounds were dressed, while lying under a tree, a minnie ball penetrated the back
of his neck, passed down near his spine and lodged where the surgeons have not
been able to find it. Since then
his right leg and side have remained paralyzed.
He recovered sufficiently to obtain leave of absence from the hospital in
Charlottesville for several weeks, which he spent with his company in performing
military duty with his crutches tied to his saddle.
In this condition he fought seven battles—Hazel River Bridge, Warrenton
Springs, the Rappahannock or Waterloo Bridge, the battles of the 29th,
30th and that at Manassas, and the battle of Germantown.
When Gen. R. H. Anderson wished to ascertain what division of the enemy
occupied the north side of the Rappahannock, opposite his position, he
volunteered to bring him the necessary information, swam the river, surprised
three of the enemy's pickets and bro't them across the river to the General, who
gave the crutched hero a certificate complimenting his skill and gallantry.
At the battle of Hazel River a minnie ball broke one of his crutches, and
one of the enemy's horses without a rider ran against him and broke the other.
In the second day's fight at Manassas he had a horse killed under him and
another the day after at the battle of Germantown.
while pursuing the enemy's cavalry, a pistol shot penetrated his hat,
grazed his temple, and knocked him from his horse.
Since he has been pronounced incompetent to perform military duty on
account of his wounds, and while acting as a volunteer on hospital furlough, he
has captured six prisoners without any assistance and killed many of the enemy.
In different battles he has had six horses killed under him, and I have
no doubt has killed more of the enemy than any soldier in our army.
If skill, courage and hazardous and useful service on the battlefield
deserve promotion, he has nobly earned it.
Just before, the resignation of the Hon. G. W. Randolph he was
recommended for promotion by General Ewell; but so far his merits has [sic] been
overlooked, and an "unknown hero," capable of drilling and leading an
army to victory, is a mutilated private, while scores of "cross road"
politicians, unscathed by ball or sabre, and strangers to the roar of battle,
are commanding companies and regiments.
It will gratify the friends of our "unknown heroes" to learn
that Lamar Fontaine is the author of the beautiful lines which have recently
been published in all our papers, commencing "All quiet along the Potomac
to-night," a copy of which, corrected by the author, is herewith enclosed:
"ALL
QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TO-NIGHT."
By Lamar Fontaine, Company I, 2d Regiment Virginia Cavalry, written while
on picket on the bank of the Potomac, 1861.
"All
quiet along the Potomac to-night,"
Except here and there a stray picket
Is shot as he walks on his beat to and fro
By a rifleman hid in the thicket.
'Tis nothing—a private or two now and then
Will not count in the news of the battle;
Not an officer lost! only one of the men
Mourning out, all alone, the death rattle.
"All
quiet along the Potomac to-night,"
Where the soldiers lie peacefully dreaming,
And their tents in the rays of the clear autumn moon,
And the light of their camp fires are gleaming.
A tremulous sigh, as a gentle night wind
Thro' the forest leaves slowly is creeping,
While the stars up above, with their glittering eyes,
Keep guard o'er the army while sleeping.
There's
only the sound of the lone sentry's tread,
As he tramps from the rock to the fountain,
And thinks of the two on the low trundle bed
Far away in the cot on the mountain.
His musket falls slack—his face, dark and grim,
Grows gentle with memories tender,
As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep,
And their mother—"may Heaven defend her."
The
moon seems to shine as brightly as then,
That night, when the love yet unspoken
Leaped up to his lips, and when low murmur'd vows
Were pledged to be ever unbroken.
Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes,
He dashes off the tears that are welling;
And gathers his gun close up to his breast
As if to keep down the heart's swelling.
He
passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree,
And his footstep is lagging and weary;
Yet onward he goes, thro' the broad belt of light,
Toward the shades of the forest so dreary.
Hark! was it the nightwind that rustled the leaves?
Was it the moonlight so wonderously flashing?
It looked like a rifle! "Ha!
Mary good bye!"
And his life blood is ebbing and splashing.
"All
quiet along the Potomac to-night,"
No wound save the rush of the river;
While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead,
The picket's off duty forever!
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, March 19, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Gov. Shorter has succeeded in running through the blockade 4,344 pairs of
cotton and wool cards, which are to be distributed to the different Counties of
the State at a price equal only to cost and charges—say from $6 to $8 per
pair. Others are expected soon.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, March 26, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The high prices of everything we have to buy—provisions, paper, ink,
&c.—compel us to raise the subscription price of the Journal.
Accordingly we have placed it at $3 per annum, in advance.
This is a very reasonable price for a newspaper considering the
exorbitant prices of almost everything else.
Paper and ink have gone up five or six hundred per centum, and are
extremely difficult to obtain at that.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, April 9, 1863, p. 2. c. 3
High Prices.—Is there no remedy for the [illegible—looks like ruling]
prices of the essentials of life? Yes,
there is a remedy, and it is in the hands of the men who are not in the army,
and if they do not remedy it, and that right speedily—well, every sensible man
knows the inevitable disaster which awaits us as a people.—In the name of God,
how can the poor live at the present prices!
Go to the free market, and you will there see squalid poverty and misery
in the persons of old men, women and children who never knew distress until the
spirit of extortion got abroad in the land.—With what the poor can earn, added
to that they receive through charity, many of them are on the verge of
starvation, if we may judge from their emaciated faces.
men who were worth a few thousands of dollars a year or two ago, are now
reduced to beggary by this curse of the country, Extortion. The extortioners are doing for Lincoln more than his army and
navy combined. Take heed, rich
men!—you may have been rich before the war began, or may have made a fortune
since—we say to you beware! If
you do your duty, all may yet be well. But
if you do it not, you and your children will most assuredly be beggars, yes, slaves,
at the close of this unrighteous war. Our
gallant soldiers can avail nothing if the people at home fight against
them. Your disposition to make
money while your countrymen are bleeding and starving, cannot benefit you in the
end, unless your course is changed. And
the pulpit and the press throughout the country cannot too often tell you
so.—Mont. Mail.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, April 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Relieve the Distressed.—On yesterday (says the Atlanta Intelligencer of
the 19th) a scene occurred in our streets which moved the sympathies
of our soul. A number of ladies,
perhaps a dozen, composed of the wives and daughters of soldier's families, who
represented themselves and their families to have been deprived of anything to
eat in the last few days, save a small portion of corn bread, were seen
perambulating our streets until they came up to a provision store on White Hall
street. They all entered it, being
preceded by a tall lady on whose brown rested care and determination.
She asked the merchant the price of bacon.
He replied that it was $1 10 per lb.
She remonstrated with him, as to the impossibility of females in their
condition paying such prices for this necessity of life.
He remaining inexorable in his demand, this tall lady proceeded to draw
from her besom [sic?] a long navy repeater, and at the same time ordered the
others in the crowd to help themselves to what they liked, which they did
accordingly, giving preference to the bacon, until they had taken, as we learn,
something like $200 worth.—They went out, and on being questioned by some
gentlemen as to what they meant, they related their suffering condition, of
which we have already spoken.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, April 16, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Salt can now be purchased at the different works in this county at from
$15 to $18 per bushel. Prices
advancing.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, April 16, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The blossoms of the sassafras, dried in the shade, are said to be an
excellent substitute for tea, which now sells at from $12 to $15 per pound.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, April 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Gratifying.—We are glad to learn that the plan which some of our
liberal and patriotic citizens have adopted to aid the poor of the upper
counties is proving successful, says the Selma Reporter.
A large sum of money has been raised, besides a considerable quantity of
provisions, which are being judiciously distributed among the needy.
The Central Supply Committee are very active in the discharge of their
duties, and it is hoped that none of our people will forget the importance of
adding to the means already placed in their hands for doing good.
Many have been liberal in making contributions; let others follow their
example. In a charitable and
patriotic point of view, they will be more than compensated by the satisfaction
it will afford them, and in the rejoicing it will create among the destitute.
Carry on the good work.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, April 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Bread.—The best substitute for bread and that which can be soonest made
available is the pea, says J. H. P. in the Selma Reporter.
There are several varieties of the "crowder" family which will
yield a crop ready for use in a few weeks from the time of planting.—They
should be planted in rows 3 ½ feet apart, the hills 2 feet apart—10 to 12
seed in a hill. When the peas are
sufficiently matured to be eaten, they may be thoroughly boiled, then drained of
their liquor, mashed and baked or fried as you would big hominy, and seasoned to
the taste. Thus prepared they make
a very palatable dish and are far more nutritious than corn meal or even flour.
An acre of land which would yield only 5 bushels of corn would give a
crop of 8 or 10 bushels of peas, or 100 bushels of sweet potatoes.
To give a needy family a peck or more of seed peas would be a very
benevolent act.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, April 23, 1863,p. 2, c. 3
Mr. David Birdsongs, of Hinds County, Mississippi, has succeeded in
dispensing altogether with warping bars in preparing to weave cloth; in lieu of
which he warps the thread upon the beam at once from the spools.
This he performs by means of a crank on one end of the beam, and at each
evolution he winds the thread on the beam—which is larger than ordinary—so
as to make each evolution of the beam equal to a yard long.
This will expedite the making of cloth very much, as well in time as in
labor; and will, besides, greatly simplify the process of weaving.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, April 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
The
Richmond Riot.
The virago who headed this outbreak is thus referred to by the Examiner:
The case of Mary Jackson, a huckster in the market and the leader of the
woman's riot was called. The
prisoner was a good specimen of a forty year old Amazon, with the eye of the
Devil.
It was in evidence before the Mayor that this Amazonian huckster had been
threatening and arranging for a riot for some time.
She seems to have gone for her means largely into the specification
business in provisions. Two weeks
ago, it was shown she purchased two veal calves near the city for $50 each, and
asked immediately $75 for each.
One of the women engaged is the wife of a man who is receiving good and
full wages under the Government. Another
woman is receiving $25 a week as a tent maker; the husband of another is
flourishing at large under consular protection, and several of the women were
shown to be the wives or daughters or sisters of men of comfortable means and
resources.
The Mayor remarked, during the investigation:
There is no reason why there should have been any suffering among the
poor of this city; more money has been appropriated than has been applied for.
It should be, and is, well understood that the riot yesterday was not for
bread. Boots are not bread; brooms
are not bread; men's hats are not bread, and I have never heard of any body
eating them.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, April 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
A gentleman who has administered the following remedy for diphtheria,
says it has always proved effectual in affording speedy relief:
Take a common tobacco pipe, place a live coal within the bowl, drop a
little tar upon the coal, and let the patient draw smoke into the mouth and
discharge it through the nostrils. The
remedy is safe and simple, and should be tried whenever occasion may require. Many valuable lives may be saved, the informant confidently
believes, by prompt treatment as above.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, May 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Salt can be purchased at the works in this County at from $12 to $15 per
bushel. In Mobile a few days ago Clarke county salt was quoted at
$20.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, May 7, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Fresh
Arrival.
Now arriving and for sale at small profits Factory Thread, Chewing
tobacco, Snuff, Dupont's Rifle Powder, Kentucky ditto, Needles, Pins, Writing
Paper, Ink, &c., &c., all of which articles we intend to keep a supply
of , regardless of cost.
White & Rawlings.
May 7, '63.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, June 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The Eutaw Whig says wheat is selling in Western Greene at $2.50 per
bushel.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, June 4, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
The Macon (Ga.) Messenger says Irish potatoes in that market sell at $32
per bushel. In size they range from that of a china berry to an
indifferent sized persimmon.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, June 11, 1863, p.2, c. 1
A correspondent of the Savannah News, writing from near Jackson, says:
I saw yesterday and the day before, two hundred and seventy-two Yankee
prisoners, who were captured in and around Jackson.
It makes them very mad to call them Yankees.
They call themselves "Western men," and say if them d------d
blue bellied rascals in Virginia would only fight as they have fought, they
could have whipped us long before this. They
all seem confident of success in this State, and are very impertinent in their
boasting. They say they intend to
overrun and possess Mississippi, and that they have three hundred thousand
troops in that State to do it with—that they never saw or heard of such a
place as Vicksburg, but that they intend to have it before long, as they had
plenty of grape and canister shot. They
seem to think that fighting on gunboats is nonsense, and are opposed to fighting
on them. They were astonished to
see us so well clothed, and said we look like gentlemen and not soldiers.
I never saw a set of men dressed so badly as they were.
I saw a dozen or more of them who had no shoes on, and I should judge
from their appearance that their army is in a much worse condition than ours.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, June 18, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Camp Sawyer, Caroline County, Va.
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May 30th, 1863.
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Mr. Editor:
Whilst the press teem with individual acts of heroism exhibited in the
late battles of Chancellorsville, permit me to mention one, which I consider
second to none in this army of heroes. The
men belonging to the "Ambulance Corps," being required to keep very
near the rear of the Regiment to gather up the wounded, are constantly exposed
to the fire of the enemy, and not having an opportunity to return the fire of
the enemy there is no excitement to drown the though of danger.
At every step one meets with his dead and wounded comrades, and so
powerful is the effect upon the nerves that many men who have acted well in line
of battle, falter in this position. After
the battle had been raging for some hours on Sunday, the woods, being thickly
covered with dead leaves, were fired by the shells, where hundreds of our brave
wounded comrades lay helplessly scattered.
Upon these woods the enemy poured a most terrific and deadly fire and it
seemed death to enter them in this awful hour.
But Jesse R. Bettis, of the "Ambulance Corps," exhibited the
heroic courage of a Christian soldier. He
did not falter for a moment, but went though the woods, raked the leaves from
around them and thus saved hundreds of helpless wounded men from perishing in
the flames. Hundreds of the wounded
enemy were burned, because we could render them no assistance.
It required the courage of a lion to face the shower of deadly missiles
that swept every part of the woods where our helpless wounded were lying—and
he who braved the storm to rescue them deserves to have his name written in
letters of gold.
H. M. J.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, July 9, 1863, p. 1, c. 5
Fresh
Arrival.
Just received, Factory Thread, Tobacco, Copperas, Percussion Caps,
Dupont's Rifle Powder, letter Paper &c. which we will sell, until the 25th
instant, for Confederate States' Treasury Notes issued previous to the 2d of
last December.
White & Rawlings.
Grove Hill, July 7, '63.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, July 9, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
We learn that the machinery of the large Leslie Factory at Claiborne, has
been purchased by the Government
for $45,000, and that it will be taken to Selma.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, July 16, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
The enrolling officer of Sullivan County, Indiana, was shot dead on the
18th of June, while riding along the road.
Another officer in Boone County was held by the men while women pelted
him with eggs.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, July 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
We purchased printing paper in Mobile this week at $30 per ream.
We used to get a much better article at $3 per ream.—For the future the
subscription price of our paper will be $3 per year. We can hold out at peace prices no longer.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, July 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 6
Tableaux
Vivant, at Suggsville.
The Young Ladies and Gentlemen of Suggsville and vicinity will act
Tableaux Vivant on Tuesday night the 28th of July instant, in aid of
the families of absent soldiers. Let
everybody attend as the exhibition is in aid of a cause in which every heart
should be enlisted.
Price of admission $1.
July 23, '63.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, July 23, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
For Making Coperas. [sic]—Take a stone jar and fill it with pieces of
rusty scraps of iron, fill the jar with very strong vinegar, cover it, and let
it stand for two weeks. One quart
is equal to a pound of coperas.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, August 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
We learn that the price of salt has gone up to $30 per bushel at the
works in this country.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, August 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Jamestown Weed.—In collecting medical plants, (remarks the Charleston
Courier,) attention should now be particularly directed to the "Datura
Stramonium," or Jamestown weed. It
is now in perfection. The whole
plant should be taken up and dried in the shade.
Every portion of the plant is medicinal.
When the fruit is mature and the pod dries, the seed should be saved.
This whole plant is narcotic, and can be made to take the place of opium
for many purposes, so as to save that now expensive article.
For all external applications, for the relief of local pain, in rheumatic
affections, irregular spasm and cramps, bruises and sprains, the Stramonium can
be used to great advantage.—Every part of the plant has been long known and
used in asthma, dried and smoked in the common pipe.
In dressing wounds, great relief is often given by using an infusion of
the Stramonium—either of the green or dry plant—instead of water; and in
painful injury, where the part can easily be put into the infusion, particularly
where it can be borne warm, the relief is often immediate.
It is believed also to exert a decided influence upon the irritability of
the nerves of a wounded part, and thus to diminish the chance of tetanus and of
erysipelas. The surgeon has long
known the value of Stramonium ointment. The
infusion is advantageous in keep [keeping] off flies.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, August 13, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Colored incidents.—It is well known that the Yankees kept Yankee faith
(which beats the ancient Punic faith higher than a kite) with the officers of
the Vicksburg garrison respecting their servants, but Sambo was occasionally
more than a match for them. The
servants of Col. Harrison and Lieut. Col. Banks, 43d Miss., being disposed,
after having been kept in close quarters so long, to see a little of the world,
told their captors most woful [sic] stories of how their masters had threatened
to cut their throats if they tried to leave them, and the consequence was they
were taken under Yankee protection and carried down to Natchez.
There these "free Americans of African descent" engaged
themselves as teamsters, and having made an inspection of the stock of animals
in the service, each selected a pair of choice mules and "put out,"
riding one and leading the other. In
this style they succeeded in reaching Enterprise a little before their masters.
The negro taken North is lost. He
is out of his latitude. But if the
Yankees undertake to manage them South, they will find themselves fooled out of
their eye teeth.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, August 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
To-morrow, the 21st, is the day set apart by the President of
the Confederacy for fasting, humiliation and prayer.
A people who see the hand of God in the building up and pulling down of
nations should observe this day in the spirit desired by our Christian
President—not in mere outward formality and display, but in a spirit of meek
humiliation and repentance for national transgressions—a spirit that is
benefited while smarting under the chastening rod of Him who corrects us but for
our good and His glory.
There will be preaching at Horeb Church on to-morrow, in accordance with
the President's proclamation.
Are we to have no preaching here?
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, August 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
[Summary: Financial report of the
County Salt Works]
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, August 20, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Contributions
for Suggsville Soldiers
Aid Society since Feb. 7, 1863.
.
. . In addition to the above, 17 pr drawers, 15 of pants, 13 shirts, made of
cloth that the Society had woven.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, August 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
A Hellish Outrage by Yankees.—by a letter which has reached this city
from Wetzen County, (says the Richmond Examiner,) we learn the particulars of a
most revolting outrage committed by some Yankee fiends upon the person of the
wife of Mr. L. S. Hall, member of the State Legislature from Wetzel, and one of
the first advocates of secession in his section.
Mrs. Hall had her clothes tied over her head and in that condition she
was thrust into the street of New Marketsville, her husband's place of
residence. Report says that an outrage, to which death is preferable,
was perpetrated upon her person.—The Yankee hellhounds afterwards burned down
Mr. Hall's outhouses and ransacked his house.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, August 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Yankee Fiendishness.—Mississippi has been reserved for the final
capping of the climax of Yankee brutality, says the Mississippian.
Not satisfied with burning, devastating towns, cities, farm houses and
plantations, their barbaric instincts found vent in the perpetration of an act
at which humanity revolts. We are
informed that Mrs. Fort, a widow lady, residing in Madison County, six miles
from Canton, a sister of B. Ricks, a wealthy and influential citizen of that
county, was recently stripped and upon her back was inflicted 500 stripes with a
leather strap, by two Yankee brutes. She
was so badly bruised that fears were entertained for her life. If such acts as these do not fire up the blood of
Mississippians and Southrons everywhere, then, indeed, may we conclude that
justice has fled to brutish beasts. It
is, however, only another dark chapter in the book of fiendish Yankee
monstrosities.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, August 27, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Yankee Outrage.—A few days ago, says the Mobile Tribune of the 23d
inst., a party of Yankee marines came ashore not far from Bayou la Batre, and
waded to the house of a Mrs. Neill. She
was alone at the time.—They endeavored to extort from her information of the
number and position of our troops in the neighborhood as well as information of
the localities, &c. She either
had no information to give or was determined not to gratify the ruffians.
The result was the most barbarous maltreatment.
After beating her severely, they tied her with her child in her arms to a
tree, where she was found not long afterwards by her husband, who was returning
in company with other persons from the saltworks of that section.
The scoundrels got off safely, although they were almost within call of a
portion of our force in the neighborhood.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, September 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 2
Yankee
Outrages on Women.
A gentleman who left Winchester on last Thursday, says that a Yankee
cavalry force, numbering about one hundred and fifty, visited the town on Monday
morning last, and remained there several hours.
Their force in the Valley below Winchester is not large.
At Martinsburg they are reported to have from 1,500 to 2,000, and at
Charlestown a small cavalry force and two regiments of infantry.
From Loudon county we have a report that the Yankees are behaving with
greater fiendishness than has heretofore characterized their conduct else where,
and that they have in several instances violated the persons of some of the most
respectable ladies in the county. Three
sisters, young, intelligent, and of excellent social position, have been made
the victims of their lust, because a brother of theirs was a Captain in the
Confederate service. A short time
since they attempted to outrage the person of the wife of a clergyman, who is
also in our service. She was
stopping with a friend near Leesburg, where her room was entered by a Federal
officer, who locked the door behind him. Her
struggles and screams attracted the attention of a negro man on the premises,
who ran to the window of the room, which caused the wretch to desist for an
instant in the prosecution of his infernal designs.
In this interval the lady jerked his pistol from his side and fired at
him, while he ran off, and with an associate mounted his horse and left, leaving
his pistol behind him.—Richmond Dispatch, 24th ult.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, September 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Home manufactures are far more becoming to Southern ladies and men in
these war times than the Yankee gewgaws which decorate the former and the costly
trash worn by the latter.—We have seen within the past few days several ladies
dressed in domestic goods, including bonnets and shoes, which the wearers had
made themselves. Though not so fine
of texture as similar articles worn before the war, they were far more becoming
to the wearers than silks would have been, and showed a spirit of patriotic
independence which deserves emulation. Ladies
can do a great deal towards making the South independent, and they should do
it.—[Mississippian.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, September 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Domestic Faults.—A writer thus speaks of the fatal influence of small
faults on the peace of households: "Homes
are more often darkened by the continual occurrence of small faults, than by the
actual presence of any decided vice. These
evils are apparently of very dissimilar magnitude; yet, it is easier to grapple
with one than the other.—The Eastern traveler can combine his forces and hunt
down the tiger that prowls upon his path, but he scarcely can escape the
musquitoes [sic] that infest the air he breathes or the flies that swarm in the
sand he treads; but the waspish temper, the irritating tone, rude, dogmatic
manners, and the hundred nameless negligences that spoil the beauty of
association, have rarely done other than proceed till the action of disgust and
gradual alienation has turned all the currents of affection from their course,
leaving nothing but a barren track, over which the mere skeleton of the
companionship stalks along."
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, September 10, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Dog fennel is now used extensively in tanning.
The proper time to gather it is about the last of this month, or early in
October. It should be cut and cured
the same as flag, just before the blossom opens.
One day's good sunning will cure it.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, September 17, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Florida Card Factory.—We have recently examined a pair of wool cards
turned out by the card factory establishment at this place by the Governor,
assisted by other patriotic citizens. We
were pleased, proud and surprised at the perfection of workmanship exhibited in
the specimen before us.
They are equal, if not superior, to the same article formerly obtained
from our Yankee "friends." We
are informed that the factory will be prepared to turn out a large supply of
this indispensable article as soon as suitable skins can be obtained.
Surely our citizens will not let so patriotic an enterprise suffer for
want of skins. We are informed that
this factory can furnish cards cheaper than any other establishment in the
Confederacy.—Floridian.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, October 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
Have the speculating people at home paused for a moment during the past
summer to consider the absolute necessity of providing the necessary clothing
and comforts for the army during the rigors of the coming winter?
The cold, chilling blasts will soon be upon us and upon them, and as our
only hope is in our armies the men that compose them must be provided for.
If supplies of clothing, shoes and provisions are short, let those at
home go without, for the army must be supplied.
The Government has been doing all it could, we doubt not, in procuring
supplies, and we trust that the sufferings of last winter, for the lack of shoes
and clothing, will not be experienced the coming season by our heroic defenders.
On them our all depends and for them our all must be freely
used.—[Mississippian.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, October 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 1
In the absence of quinine, an effective substitute would perhaps be
acceptable to some of your readers. Red
pepper tea and table salt answer every purpose for chills.
Say a table spoonful of salt to a pint of tea, commencing some hours
before chill time, and drinking copiously of the beverage, never fails to keep
off the chill. This I have from an
intelligent physician, who uses it among the whites as well as the blacks of his
own family. Several of his
neighbors have employed the same remedy with complete success.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, October 1, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Dog Oil.—A leather dresser in Virginia states that from experience he
regards the oil extracted from the carcass of the dog as equal to neatsfoot-oil
for the purpose of his business. The
hide of the dog makes good leather and now that the oil can be used to advantage
we hope the breed will soon be shortened.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, October 8, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
Attention
Militia!
We will attend at the following times and places for the examination of
persons claiming exemption from military duty, under the late act of the
Legislature, on account of disability, to-wit:
Choctaw cor., Monday, Oct. 19, '63.
Grove Hill, Wednesday, " 21,
"
Jackson, Friday,
" 23,
"
W. H. Abernethy,
L. L. Alston,
W. W. McGowan
Board of Surgeons.
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I will attend at the above named places for the purpose of hearing
exemptions under the exemption act, and those claiming exemption must submit
affidavits, and in case of doubt as to age, the same must be proved by proper
affidavits.
J. M. Drinkard, Special Aid to the Governor.
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Rendervous [sic] Vols. & Conscripts,
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Grove Hill, Oct. 6, 1863.
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Persons claiming exemption from Confederate service on account of
disability, are notified to report at this place on Wednesday, Oct. 21st,
ween [sic] they will be examined by the Medical Board.
Alex. Mason, Major,
Com'd'g. Rendezvous.
Oct. 8, '63.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, October 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
The editor of the Columbus Times says he has examined a very excellent
lot of crockery ware, made in South Carolina.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, October 15, 1863, p. 2, c. 5
A card factory has been established near Tallahassee, Fla., which will
furnish cards cheaper than any other in the Confederacy.
It is in want of skins.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, October 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
A She Devil.—The special correspondent of the London Times, writing
from Baltimore, says that the hospitals in that city are under the direction of
some Union ladies, chiefly from the North, and at the head of the association is
the wife of a Yankee schoolmaster, who is patronized by Gen. Schenck. This woman went into the Confederate ward with a Federal flag
in her hand, and held the obnoxious stars and stripes over the bed of a dying
sufferer, saying, as she waved the rustling silk in his very face, "There,
my friend, you were loth [sic] to live under this glorious banner; it must be
refreshing to you, at last, to die under it." We know not which is more horrible, the massacre at Beckham's
Landing, or for a woman thus to torture a dying prisoner.—[Index.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, October 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
It is very pleasant to see the ladies visiting the hospitals in Newnan
every evening.—We heard one soldier say he'd rather see them than take
medicine.—[Bulletin.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, October 22, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Hoops and skirts are quite exploded in Paris, flounced Mohair skirts
being used instead.
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 5, 1863, p. 2, c. 3
Bibles for the Benighted.—The Petersburg (Va.) Express says, "the
Yankees who organize and send negro regiments into our country to subjugate our
people, cut our throats and lay waste our fair fields, have suddenly been
stricken with an interest in our spiritual welfare.
Yesterday there arrived at City Point, from the North, per flag of truce,
18 large boxes, each containing 1400 Bibles, amounting in the aggregate to
25,200, sent by the religious societies of our quondam friends, for the use and
teaching of the benighted rebels. Alas! that we should be so dependent as to receive them.
They can murder our old men and bury them with their heads down and feet
up, insult and violate our women, and heap all manner of indignities upon us,
but still they have respect unto our spiritual condition.
Only respect for the Holy Word of God would induce us to accept this boon
of testaments."
CLARKE
COUNTY [AL] JOURNAL, November 12, 1863, p. 2, c. 4
Tragedy
in Sumter County.
The people of our town (says the Livingston Messenger) were startled from their "Rip Van Winkle" slumbers on last Friday morning, by the announcement that a fearful tragedy had been acted the night previous. Major George A. Turner, who has for sometime been stationed here in charge of a lot of Government stock, had been shot during Thursday the 29th ult. by Mr. C. D. Anderson, a citizen of the town. Mr. Anderson, having been led to suspect the fidelity of his wife, left town on the afternoon of Thursday saying he would be absent that night, but returning to town after dark he placed himself in a position from which he could observe all that passed in his house. From this position he saw Major Turner enter the house in such a manner as to indicate his purposed.—Mr. Anderson thereupon went to the houses of several of our citizens, aroused them from their slumbers