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* ----- ^ ~ J WJ.W J W\i | | I VI 1 •This attracted the rebel fire.away from the * ci tv, which would soon have been in 1 lames. The ’ artillery duel lasted something like an hour, when the enemy's pieces were Bileneelt; 1. Our batteries were then advanced to the front of tl e city, and planted on the levee, over which they frowned in dreadful silence, ready to open | to the front, right, left or rear, whenever wanted. Then, too, Gen- Blunt sent word to Hindman, across the river, that if he fired another shot on the city it would be laid in ashes. This stopped the inhuman game, and ' a more inhuman one never disgraced the histo-\ \ i v of civilized warfaie. Gen. Hindman had en-. | joyed the hospitalities of the citizens of Van 1 Buren but the evening before, the wives and families of his own soldiers, of the very ones who manned his batteries, were there: his own ; sick and wounded were there in hospital. Kx-. ! pressions of amazement and indignation .fell | from the lips of the most incorrigible rebels, i land more Union sentiment was manufactured | in an hour and a half than a myriad homilies could have inculcated.The evening and night wore peacefully away, •nid the morning ojwned bright and beautiful. The citizens thronged the streets, and a brilliant military display occupied the forenoon.— The vast army passed in review order through the city, cheer after cheer rending the air, as• the cohunn -minted the flag, and again as they | reached the bank of the .Arkansas, and tiled j along its .sloping. banks. In the meantiui;| many prisoners were being brought in, and the j .• was being rendered complete. Thu! inhabitant-** were excited, some looked savairt*I o i. u cto silent, others '*g»y and festive.*'Many invited the federal officers to their , house. and set before them the best their mar-i k-*! afforded. Many of the citizens had skein dd led with the rebel army, and were not -can. Tim expressions of those that remained,| who were steady business men, and who, 1• 1. ubt not, fairly represent the respectable son-' dment of the South, was peace, jieace, peace,I -it almost any price. The ruin and desolation• brought by war hail come home to them, and 1 with a knowledge of its evils came returningreason. Tiie story here was the same as ev-: ery where—at first there wjls a large majority . against secession, but no lair vote was taken,: terror reigned, military despotism made a public sentiment and habit had confirmed it—a , duggisb. despairing acquiescence in a state of ihuilt;is not to be heljied.- Then, too, the tricks .. »f demagogues, ■ some pride in the success of armies—for tliere every fight is pro-| claimed a victory—and the necessity of taking• *mh\s, and the danger of taking any side bid •i5lt;% cornribilled to tilrengllien and indurate ihe u I tie I, hopeless, consenting adherence to, die !iriun.s oi the Southern Confederacy.1 Towards night, Monday, the 29 th, a’move-
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Quincy Daily Herald
Quincy, Illinois, US
Wed, Jan 21, 1863
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