Thursday, July 12, 2012

What Refugees from Dixie Say


ST. LOUIS, March 11. – A special to the Democrat from Cairo says two Union men reached here from New Orleans to-day.  They left that city on the 26th ult., and by carefully traveling were enabled to get off in safety.  Both spent the winter in New Orleans, where the greatest excitement and distress prevails.  The approaches to the city on the south are pretty well defended; on the north fortifications run back from Carrrolton.  The only persons in the city not regularly enlisted are Germans and Jews. – The city is also full of secret Union clubs.  It is said that at least 12,000 of the citizens belong to clubs.  The condition of things is terrible.

The Memphis Appeal advocates burning the city, as a last resort, in case it is attacked, but the Mayor issued a proclamation that any person detected attempting to fire houses would be hung.  Beauregard had left.  Jackson was expected to take command at Island No. 10.  A large number of transports were lying at the foot of the Island to take off troops in case of defeat.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4

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