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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 128 (search)
Col. Prentis, the commanding officer at Cairo received the following despatch from three of the most prominent citizens of Cincinnati: General Pillow has several steamers ready at Memphis. He meditates an immediate attack on Cairo, Illinois. Col. Prentiss replied: Let him come. He will learn to dig his ditch on the right side. I am ready. --Portsmouth (N. H.) Ballot.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 249 (search)
General Pillow, being about raising a brigade of volunteers for the Southern army, sent a message to the noted Parson Brownlow, requesting him to serve as Chaplain. The Reverend individual replied in characteristic style, saying: When I shall have made up my mind to go to hell, I will cut my throat, and go direct, and not travel round by way of the Southern Confederacy. It is not necessary that the Reverend gentleman should cut his throat to go to the place he mentions, as it is pretty evident he is making there direct without any such operation.--Charleston Mercury, May 1. the following incidents of the late riot in Baltimore, and the concluding statements concerning the intentions and doings of the rebels there, are derived from a letter written by a prominent officer in the rebel forces:-- An old, gray-haired man, aged more than sixty-five years, saw one of the Massachusetts soldiers in the act of levelling his musket, when he rushed in his shirt sleeves from his shop, d
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), The shadow and the Substance. (search)
hould awaken Northern fanatics and insane politicians to a true sense of the unpopularity of their war against the South; and fully picturing to them the shadow and the substance of North American affairs. John. --Natchez Courier, May 21. Gen. Pillow, who is a clever gentleman in the private relations of life, and a very companionable man, sent us a message recently, which is explained in the following reply:-- Gen. Gideon Pillow:--I have just received your message through Mr. Sale,is explained in the following reply:-- Gen. Gideon Pillow:--I have just received your message through Mr. Sale, requesting me to serve as Chaplain to your Brigade in the Southern army; and in the spirit of kindness in which this request is made, but in all candor, I return for answer, that when I shall have made up my mind to go to hell, I will cut my throat and go direct, and not travel round by the Southern Confederacy. I am very respectfully, &c., W. G. Brownlow. --Knoxville Whig.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), Fiddlestring notes. (search)
Fiddlestring notes. by Fidelia. Oh, most puissant General Pillow, Just hang that gun upon a willow, Or else prepare yourself instead, To be a Pillow without a head. Beriah Magoffin, You traitorous ruffin, I'm sure the community think that you ought, With kickina and cuffina, Laid flat as a muffin, To have a good stuffina Of powder and shot. --Bufalo Courier.