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... c ;-ne fnU Tlio i.e I'!;ht In rj -General rary Cccu Continuous day that General re j Raleigh, General upicd Salisbury, April completing: the chain h were closing In upon .icy. Ampng the pits-. Salisbury were some of iss, who were at large This they v-oke in the winter of 1864, and ac- accumulation of stores, bury as made its cap t of importance. V neman entered the State k of March, by the 'ins from Taylorsville, rough Watauga county out the Blue Ridge a probably nix or seven ronsr though rumor in 3 fifteen, twenty,-thirty, istance to sixty thousand, red Boone, the county luga on the twenty-sixth The village was complete surprise. ' No one was approach of the enemy nee guard dashed up the making no demand for at firing right and left at .? thing they saw. Mrs. cil, hearing the noise, her piazza with her child and immediately a. volley intered the wood work er. She, however, escap The people of this coun n warmly attached to crate cause and had ted East Tennessee raid auders. The county seat e, especially, obnoxious; r may. have been Gen :n s; poucy, there were officers in his command !y too happy In the op retort upon a defenseless ing population, The Jail by order of General Gil is it is said he was stern y General Stoneman; but ty; records, books and rs were destroyed. Priv ere, of course, plundered, ens were consoled by the at f'Klrk was to follow hem ? out" Several citi hot under circumstances sgravation, A party of vent into th field of Mr. il, where he was plowing . - lie was over the con prudent, quiet man who 0 part in the war. II n in cold blood, notwlth- 'piteous appeals for iuse, upon the ne- 1 he was an in el. fAnother,' Warren led while holding up token of surrender. An- i Green was pursued and but they continued firing his surrender. He thon fend himself, and fought. firing till he was shot ft for dead. He shatter f one of the Federal sol it had to be amputated But instead of dying him- vered.-and is now living. r, a lad of fifteen, was i squad of half a dozen, running fight of it. Get fence he cooly waited till thin range and then fired e through. - He then ran gr and turned again and -r of his- pursuers; and ing the pursuit wa kept distance; the balls whls ;, him he made good his will probably make none tlzen, when he is grown, iturous boyhood. ie whole of this raid Gen tn is represented to have ntly, '. anxious to mitigate 3. and horrors- of war as practicable, by courteous treatment of people, ad that of General Jalm- reshing contract to those inate General Glllam, and (her higher names in the iy. ' There A one story, 1 of him in Boone, which, y be due to his quarter-mmlssary-in-chief. Mrs. been kind to some Feder- -onfined In jail; and the iring of it, requited her fr protection during their i raiders, however, came ioneman had passed ori, ; the place or all that h$g he gallant" Colonel-Kirk ing his headquarters with keeping her a close prls- own room, while he and ide free with the rest Of m'd the premises. That ttle or nothing but the my be Inferred-from Gen inV-remark on his return t after the- , capture of .'landing in the piazza and vey of what had once been id beautiful home the one,. the gardens, .shrub snl trampled bare, " eov- raw hides of cattle and ying carcasses' and all th he turned, to the. lady ". -lI, Mrs. C, I suppose knv whether your are A." Gratefully remern rmfer courtesy to her, she If to entertain him with ttores as the, raiders had rkin of -uncommonly fine en overlooked by them, f-d some "of this on the leneral commended this "y, 2nd asked her if she ' it. Ehe. told him only thing to eat l congratulated, her- : ty under his proteo v . l.t r mortification a if r, to the firkin or 1 placed in the General's 1 wagon. fk much that tt General Stoneman's reached me that 'I' 'can r that he was ignorant kingly xmail transact ' '- v( nth 0f March, 'ivided. 'General i'.iviion, went dl . Th other, "un- r(?.Hi'!i -tl.e-Dlue , " r " 1 rent' i1 r-' that it ; . Id be yrared, !' - ' ';' of t Tennessee had teen largely .u;;:ied from it. But General Gillara when not immediate ly under General Stoneman's eye. could not restrain his Dro Densities. He announced that, "The Government had been lenient, and rebels must look out for consequences," and ordered the torch to be applied. While the raiders were in the Yad kin River bottom they were detained three days by freshets. Small parties scoured the country, carrying off all the horses and mules, and burning the factories. There seemed to be no sys tematic plan of destruction; for while some mills and factories were burned, others, in tha same neighborhood and quite as easily accessible were spared. Muc depended upon the personal character of the commanding officer of these detachments. If he happen ed to be a gentleman, the 'ueonle were spared a much as possible; if ne was simply a brute dressed in a lit tle brief authority, every needless In jury was lnflctel, accompanied with true underbred insolence and malice. The privates always followed the lead or their commander. Tha factories on hunting creek, in the upper part of Tredel, were burned with lare Quan tities of cotton.' ' Eagle Mills alone lost eight hundred bales. Among General Gillam's exploits In Wiikes- boro was the finding the horse of the late General James - Bordan in the stable of a brother-in-law of thd Gen eral. This General Glllam-immedi ately "captured;" and further to im press the family . with his heroic achievement," he had a man to mount the animal and parade him slowly up and down before the door of the house for an hour or so. - " Leaving Wilkesboro on the thirty- first of March, General Stonemart moved over into Surry county, in the direction of Mt. Airy, and thence Into Virginia aiming for Chrlstereburg on the Tennessee Railroad. A portion- of the command being detached to Wythesville, was met near that place by General Duke's cavalry, and re pulsed, but rallying took the town and destroyed the depot of supplies there. Having effectually destroyed the road above Wychesville, between New River and Big Lick, General Stone man, turned back upon North Caro lina, , re-entering it from Patrick county, Virginia, and marching rapid ly through Stokes county, oppeared suddenly in Salem and Winston on the 10th of April. Here he sent out vari ous detachments to cut the North Carolina Road and the Danville and Greensboro Road, destroy bridges, supplies, etc., etc. One of these par ties, as I havn Ralrl hefnr norm nr. ly missed capturing he train convey-i ing the whole Confederate govern ment, In its flight to Greensboro. They burned the bridge at Jamestown and were about to fire the depot, but upon a sudden false alarm, ; fied' pre cipitately without finishing ; their work. At High Point they burned the depot and large quantities of govern ment stores, also seventeen - hundred bales of cotton, belonging to Francis Fries, of Salome The publle buildings and stores at Lexington and Thomas- vllle were saved by the arrival of a body of Furgerson's cavalry, who chased the raiders back to Salem. The general plan of the whole raid seemed to. contemplate the destruction of stores and cutting off communica tions without risking battle. At Salem and Winston private prop erty was protected; no pillage be ing permitted. This was probably ow ing to the fact that the inhabitants having had notice of the approach of the raiders sent a deputation to meet them and to mike a formal surren der of the town. I ; am not aware that a demand for surrender was made of any. place during the entire raid or any place'beslde Winston and Salem, which may be regarded as one, offered a surrender. The first notice ot the presence of the enemy, in most cases, was given by the unlooked tor arrival of the advance guard gallop ing in and taking posesslon. ; At Mocksvllle, a number of the citi zens, supposing it was only a small squad that was hurrying through the country and plundering, prepared to give them a warm reception and a short distance from town firing on the advancing column. Soon finding their mistake, they retreated Threats of burning the village for this audacious thought of resistance were made, but a General Sherman was pressing forward with all speed upon Salisbury, no time was allowed for any such exchange of compli ments. . General Sherman's detour Into Vir ginia had completely . mystified the peoplo of ' North Carolina. They brathed'reelyashep border, and congratulated themselves that the dreaded raid, which for weeks had been anticipated, was so soon at an end. The troops which had been posted by General Beaure gard at Salisbury, for its protection, were sent oft to Greensboro and to the railroad bridges across the Yadkin and the town was left with little or nodefense. If Stoneman had march ed thither -from e Wilkesboro, he would probably have been repulsed with disaster; for a large body of In fantry with artillery and cavalry, had been; concentrated there; but when Salisbury was attacked on the morn ing of the 12th of April, the whole effective force did not much exceed five hundred men, including two bat teries on their way to Join Johnston at Raleigh, Of these five hundred, two hundred were "galvanized Irish," recruited from among tho Federal prisoners besides artisans in the gov- rr. t ::;: f r t"..e ' i jur:itr re:ervi-.s sia da n r f i i.'. n.i m no voiumeerej in oer.-nsa or their homr-s. In the uljsi-;n-e of General Bradley T. Jolin-i. m, the command d!.poied his handful of men at various points on the road toward Mocksvllle, so as to man and support the batteries there being nowhere more than one hundred and fifty men at any point, The attack began at daylight. By eight o'clock the batteries were flank ed. The artiiiery-men fought brave ly, but, of course, soon overpowered and compelled to leave their guns in the hands of the enemy. A few of the "galvanized" Irish fought well, but the majority went over in a body to the Federals soon after the fight com menced, leaving the artillery without support, and, of course, betraying the weakness of the Confederates. A de sultory fight was kept up till the sub urbs of the town were reached and then all order and subordination were lost, the Confederates scattering through the town and to the woods beyond. Several ': of them were wounded, and one or two were kill ed in the town. -The loss of the Federals is unknown, but several were buried on the battlefield. A number of Confederates were taken prisoners.' some citizens, negroes, etc. Bynlne o ciock tne place was in quiet dos session of the enemy, who galloped in with drawn swords and full of strange oaths. Many of the citizens. negroes ana children were in the doors and on the side-walks gazing . for the first time at the Federal uniform In tho desultory running fight that was kept up through the streets, one of the Irish recruits before mentioned, righting bravely, was shot through the lungs; but he continued to load and fire as he retreated till he fell; on the plazzaa of Mrs. M. E. Ramsay. Though the balls feinhlck about him, and she was alone with her little children, she went out to him and managed to get him Inside the house, where she nursed and stimulated him the greater part of the day, till she could get a physician to him and have him removed to the hospital. He said to tier, "They have klHd me, but I -die a brave man; I fought them as long as I could stand." She supposed that of course his wound was mortal, but a fortnight after, to her astonishment, h returned to thank her for her kindness. Captain Frank T. McNeeley was found in the arsenal and shot. Lieu tenant Stokes, of Maryland, was sit ting on his horse in front of General Bradley Johnson's headquarters, when a squad of the enemy dashed into the street. An afflcer In front cried out, "Therels a kd-d . rebe- chargehim." The lieutenant waited till the officer was in point blank range, and then shot him through, and putting spurs to his horse fled hotly pursued. One ofr the pursuers was gaining on him, considerably in ad vance of the rest, and probably in tended to sabre him; but the Lieu tenant suddenly reined his horse aside, let the raider pass and as he passed fired and killed him, and then made good his escape The officer shot proved to be one of General Stone man's staff. : , . A small squad of) the Confederates retreated fighting through the yard and premises of Frank Shober, Esq. One of their number was killed in the piazza of the house. . This hand-to-hand fighting in the streets such Incidents as these, and the ract mat eausbury was an especial object of hatred to the in vaders as the prison depot of so many of their unfortunate comrades whose graves were to be counted there by the thousands these thing! certainly gave General Stoneman ev ery excuse for the plunder and de struction rof the whole town had he chosen to interpret the ' laws of war as did General Sherman. But he did not so Interpret them; he did not even fall back Upon the reserve that he was TinaMe-to- restrain his Justly Infuri ated soldiers. He declined to avail him self of General G illam'a burning zeal for the honor of the Union. This latter, officer, was heard to say that, If he had his way, he would"rnake the people of SCallsbury think - "all hell was let loose upon them." Another account states that he fieclared that "though born In Salisbury, he would be glad to lay It in ashes," v But General Sherman's policy -towards the Inhabitants of Salisbury Is a very striking illustration ot the prlclples which, in a previous chap ter, I have endeavored to show were the only true and generous and real ly politic guide for the commanders of an invading army. Private prop- erty was protected, guards were ta tinned, and General Stoneman repeat f ( h t ( h , 1 L i . '1 plundered . valuables w form, paper; relics of her t: ? t ) t i , r r -i at v 4 ni, J " -da- "r Mrs. Polks "e four. .1 the, sword, unl- cltlzens. ' He himself In 'person in spected the public store, which were of course, by the laws of war doomed to destruction and refused to allow the Confederate Quartermaster's do pot to be 'burned lest it should en danger the town. The officers, whether willingly or not, seconded their commander. .Whatever plunder ing and Insolence the people were sub jected to and there were a number of such cases was evidently the work of unauthorized bummers, who appeared In mortal dread of the guards, and did their work hurriedly and furtively. Corn-cribs and smoke houses were entered, horses and mules and arms were seized; but, on the whole, the general policy was the sec ond one of protection to non-combatants.- ,-' ; Early in the morning of the at tack several large trains with gov- . and other cherished husband. , These thinjrs were seizzea with treat triumnh. and though much that was taken besides was afterward restored to Mrs. Polk, no inducements could prevail upon the gallant Colonel Slater of the Evel enth Kentucky Cavalry to return to the widowed ladv these mementos of her husband. He claimed them as "taken on the battle-field," and kept them. ' As soon as the town was quiet, a strong force was detailed to attend the railroad -bridges across the Yad kin six "miles distant. Here strong fortifications on the Davidson side of the river had been erected, under Beaureguard's supervision on a hill commanding the . bridge on . and the Rowan shore. General York, of Louisiana, with ten or twelve nun dred menhome guards and "gal vanized" Irish defended the bridge; Its preservation was of the greatest Importance to the Confederate cause and strict orders had been issued by General Beaureguard to defend it at all hazards. At two o clock p. m., on the twelfth, the raiders arrived and brisk skirmishing was kept up on the Rowan side. At three o'clock some of the cannons captured in the morn ing on the other side of Salisbury were brought down, . and opened on the Confederate batteries. Heavy cannonading continued between the two until dark. when. the. raiders. thinking the place too well fortified to rlsK an assault, returned to Bans bury destoylng the railroad as they went. A few Confederates were wounded and one or two were killed. The Federal loss, "if any, is unknown, The assailants roeturned to assist in the destruction of the public stores at Salisbury, which I have before stat ed were immense. They had been ac cumulating there for weeks from Co lumbia, Charlotte; Richmond, Danville and Raleigh. The clothing, pro visions, medical stores, etc,, wera col lected in the main street and fired. The length of four entire squares was occupied by the burning mass, valued at at least a million in specie.- Much was given away to negroes and the lower class of white people much was quietly appropriated, and by some who should have known better. The distress ; and privations of war make times of strong temptation and the general demoralization that pre vailed all over our country was ho greater at Salisbury than elsewhere. To people who have been half starved for months and many of them half clothed, it was hard to see such quan tities of sugar, , coffee, spice, fidur, bacon, luxuries to which " they had long been strangers, burning in their streets like so much rubbish. The stores were all, emptied besides of private property and many people were , to be seen passing along the streets loaded with what-they chose. Many soldiers hal dozens - of. coats, Bhlrts, etc., plied up before them on their horses. - . r. The value of the medical stores alone was estimated at $100,000 in gold. It is a little curious while such an amount was being, thrown into the flames, one of the surgeons of the Federal armies entered the office of one of the principal physicians in the place Dr. J. J. Summerell and was about to carry oft his scanty store of medicines; but upon remonstrance, he agreed to divide, saying, he could not bear to rob a brother practicioner. Oh the-night of the 12th-18th the ordnance stores, arsenal, foundry, with much valuable machinery, the govern ment steam ' distillery, the depots and other buildings -belonging to the Cen tral and "Western roads, and other public puildlngs were fired.. The night being perfectly still, the sheets of flames rose steadily In the air, and the great conflagration - was plainly visible at a distance of fifteen miles; and for several hours the incessant and distinct explosion of shells and fired ammunition conveyed the im pression to the anxious watchers, miles away in the adjoining counties, that a fierce battle was raging. There was no hallooing by the soldiers no shouts only the cracking of the flames and the bursting of the shells. Now and then a mounted troop swept through the street, the horsemen In profound, silence, the lurid flames from the burning distillery making their rough faces ghastly enough while the buttons and .other mountings of their equipments sparkled in th fire light. No one thought of sleep that night, not even the children. Tft ' , (cht. , fi nient was r;': again in vain. t : t to i: t: r r in ment of quiet and protection of the but for urn., fim nm.nni. if. Federal prisoners, all of whom a few weeks previous had been sent to Richmond and Wilmington for ex changetogether with the barracks and all the other buildings connected with it, were burned and it may be imagined that the Federal soldiers felt a peculiar satisfaction In the de structlon of a spot so memorable to them the scene of bo much wretch edness, want and despair. Many of the men with Stoneman had been pris oners there and many had had broth ers and other relatives there. I have heard that General Gilliam hUnself had been one of the number before hi promotlori. No one knows what the condition of these prisoners was, can wonder at any amount of rage expressed by the survivors and aveng ers. The way in which both sides during the war, treated their prison ers, is an exceedingly curious com- d 1 f- I v i r y in I red to t';e:n i ; iln u far, our skins were clear. But brutality of speech and be havior, cruel indifference to their situ ation, unnecessary harshness and violence to helpless, unarmed diseased and dying men of this there may have been much among certain of our officials and for this we will yet have to repent before Him who hears the sighrhg of the prisoner. . It has been estimated that the loss In buildings alone were mostly of brick, would reach a million in eDeeie and the total loss of all property to several millions. Had the war con tinued the capture of Salisbury would nave oeen a stunning Blow to General Johnston and would have severelv . . cnppiea ms movements. As it was, It is a matter of great regret that such a vast amount of most valuable prop erty should have been destroyed just at a time wnen its destruction was no longer necessary to the overthrow of a cause already dead. General Stone man might have safely held Sali.ury irom me nour he enterea it, and pre served every dollar's worth ; of its stores for the advantage of his own government. He might have prevent ed c the further flight of the Confed erate government, and President Davis and all his cabinet might have been forced to surrender with General Johnston. And It would have been' better If they had. But General Stoneman did not know what, a bril liant part he was playing in the last act of the great tragedy, and he hur ried to get throifgh with it and leave Salisbury as rapidly as he had entered it. On the 13th a terrific- explosion of the magazine finished . the work, and that evening the Federals moved oft toward Statesville, riding. most of the night as if under apprehension of pursuit. . , '. " General Stoneman , must certainly havS been allowed to accomplish his ends with a skill, celerity and dar ing which entitle him to high praise as a military leader. Add to this the higher praise of humanity and the ability to control his troops and he well deserves a higher nicre than some "who lead grand i armies on grand marches. Salisbury, comparing her lot with that of Columbia and Fayettevtlle, may well afford to hold General Stoneman's name In grateful remembrance. - ' i I have taken no pleasure In this re cital of injuries,, insults, inhumanity and breach, of faith. The. truth of history demands that the facts be told on both sides calmly and with im partially. The world which has heard so much of one side, should hear the other too; and posterity" at whose bar we shall stand for this four year's work, should have every opportunity afforded for a righteous verdict. And there are other ways in which the truth plainly told may do good. Peo ple will be enabled looking at these details, to arrive at a. just estimate of what war may become even among Christian people, and shudder to In voke , Its horrors: llghtlyr" and -may teach children so. How many of us knew in the spring of 1861 what was about to break out among us what wide-spread ruin, what raging pas sions, what furies of hell, which once evoked would not down at our bid ling? Quiet men who were familiar with-the pages of European history and knew what Christian armies had done again and again in the fairest and most civilized portions of her em pires, these came gravely from their studies with words of warning to the gay throngs of young people who were cheering each other on to the impend ing strife. But these 'were the old fogies of that day cold blooded and unpatrlotic-who did-' not - love the South. . What a short and brilliant programme was laid downl The girls made their silken banners,' the boys marched proudly oft to victory; Eng land and France would see fair play; and this dear sunny 'South was to spring at once upward and onward in a career of . glory. One of the most influential Journals on the South one of the soberest dealing lightly and easily with the Issues of war; settling at a word the boundary lines of, the New Southern Republic, and dotting what were to be our frontier States with a chain of forts; establishing a new war office, and the standing army, henceforth to be a necessary feature, grew very enthusiastic over the splen did resource thus to be afforded to our "arlstecratic young men of family 1 fortune." . The army was to. be es pecially for the gentlemen or me South. Alas! and alas!. Now, torn and bleeding, and broken-hearted, hu mllfatedr stripped' crushed." tdlsfran chlsed, and helpless, . we may look back and learn a lesson. ' - . It may be well, too, if public at tention, be directed by such narratives to an investigation of the laws qf war and some Injury be suggested as to the necessity, of their being revised and mitigated. And it cannot but Jaave a beneficial effect that even victorious military leaders shall be made amen able to public opinion for the man ner in which they have wielded the great powers intrusted to them, and find in some cases, their fresh plucked laurels withering in their grasp. The actual loss and injury Inflicted by the enemy In the progress of the war, on personal and public property, was very far from being, the greatest evil which its continuance entailed up on us. I spe&k not now of losses bj death. ' Inter arms leges sllents is an old saying; and though framed in a dead language, Its drift is well un- t t ; i r 1 ' c i It it l.in rctlv, ci'-, jrJ i t ' advantages gained, are the t x3 which we pay for th support of law and government. There seemsd to ibe a general feeling, during the last ninety days that there was no govern ment outside of the military pressure for conscripts, deserters, and tithes. I am reminded of a poor neighbor as I write, who, during the winter of '64-'65, like many others, provided his family with wood to which he' had no right. Being remonstrated with, he said with energy, "There 13 no law in the land In these days," and continued his depredations openly. And I do believe the general feeling was "What else can he do, with wood at forty dol lars a cord?" Nor are such fruits, of war con fined to the Southern side of the Po tomac. The fires that have lit up so many Northern-cities; the tales of murder, robbery and riot which have crowded the columns of their Jurnals lor tne past year and the general lawlessness and contempt of authority which prevail there, point unmlstake ably to the dangers which accompany a triumphant and utterly undisciplin ed army, whether In the enemy's land or returning home flushed with vic tory and demoralized with licensed ra pine and riot Did Northern people soberly believe that it was zeal for the Union and hatred of secession that prompted uuch wholesale plunder in the South? Let their own experience since tnd the record of their criminal courts within the last year show, that wnen plunder is to be naov lawless and unrestrained men care little whether it belongs to friend or foe; ana mat lust, once aroused and let loose, cannot distinguish, and is amendable to no Jaw. Herein as in thousands of other instances,- Is that saying true, "The measure we mete is measured to us again." , Human nature Is Indeed - a wild beast that has need to be chained and continually surrounded with restraints or we should prey upon each other as savages do, and so lapse into barbar ism. Let the experience of the last five years teach the people of this great republic henceforth to preserve indissolubly the bonds of peace, and so as a nation, ther may do their ap pointed part toward ' hastening : the coming of that prince of whose king dom there shall be n$ end. , 1 ,"Et duce, qui maneant sceleris ves tigia nostri irrita perperua solvent for midine terras." . - 'A v i: t Ana tie ana i.c s;v . ; - , And c!-i-! i i. ' . t. started out ined to ; The way to rep the q:i. eH-.i i Came back, and, alter thou,,:.'. He changed his vest. 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