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if^0.reirC*tOurdlvialOQ lt;QeiJ* Cleborn’a) wa,Allotted to the task of guarding the rear. While oih «r parts of; the army was demoralized and scatteredotxra regained firm aDd was ready to fight at any moment At Ringold, 20 miles from the Ridge. wo halted and waited for the Yankees. 8herman’s corps came up, (the same we f.n^bt at Arkansas Post) and we gave them a weloome of miDnie balls and grape •hoi; ihey fell back, but tallied aud returned only to meet the same fate. Here we fought them six boors, until our trains werj safely conveyed to the J!*!1, bringing a great many prisoners with us. This w °°a•mal1 #t‘a,e*if 1 e*uded1 *tbebloid-;^ .rar °ar mea ietm l have ta*en betteraim, aDd their shots were more fatal, than in anytalTmuV / Thlt;' enemJ' were sallsed not to Irtll 2. 1^S ,irth-, They -y lb»« “■ quarter.MW,rtowthemnoLTD ‘1Jlher eD^mlt;D'’saereamn told hi, moo, that, If they would capture our Brigade he would give them «ixly day, furlough.But poor fellow, we tettUd the qur.tlon with manyM furloughs. I remember one poor fel-« it W“ Toundcd1 in ot my company, hewas a Uiwmnao, and was mortally wounded~he remarked to me when I approached him, that he baddone us all the harm he could, *nd was now dying— beged me to foiglve him—admitted he was In error. In fighting us—that his country was waging an un-SfrjEffi upJ“ * b*m a*d chivalrous people. ?e *[thdle» »nd left him upon the battle field to dis1 all alone I took his Dime, place of residence,If huS ° nl?*!?’ ?nd Prooa»«««* to let them know of his fate. Oh 1 the hornbleness of this warf Williin«T*hel ?eac® and «ign once moreihnnM »° °!« °nra 7 namanlJy answers itIhI?Mr;ih%prom?tlDfi,v.0 civilization answers It should, the demands of the wprld answers it should; but the barbarous paaaions of a ruthless* enemy will •till continue »t. A little girl said to me the otherCaptain, ibete Yankees are worse than the devil—they burn up houses and people, and nobody makes them do it.” This little girl had just ccme out ot the Yankee lines. She was only eight years old, but had noticed the barbarity of the Yan-k©t*. Nothing c*n exceed the inhumaninty of those people. Shall I call them civilized people 7 They hardly deserve the appellaton. and were it not. that they are formed in human shape, I would not d-ign to c*il them such, but assign them a place among the nations of the batborous ages, among whom the light of civilization never shown.
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Galveston Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Wed, Mar 02, 1864
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