Two thoroughly reliable Kentuckians just arrived from New
Orleans, and report that all along the Mississippi river from Memphis to New
Orleans is one general bonfire of property – particularly of cotton – of which
11,700 bales were burned at New Orleans.
At Memphis sugar and molasses in large quantities are on the bluff ready
to be rolled into the river, and all the stock of cotton to be fired on the
approach of the Federal fleet.
The people on the river towns are retreating inward and
destroying property along all the southern tributaries of the Mississippi.
The planters in many cases are applying the torch to their
own cotton.
The rebel government has also boats running up the rivers
destroying cotton. Among a great number
of planters only one was found who objected to the burning of his cotton.
– Published in The
Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, May 10, 1862,
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