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The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Are the Yankees in possession of Montgomery ? (search)
Are the Yankees in possession of Montgomery?
--The Montgomery Advertiser says:
The question was quite seriously mooted yesterday and the day before whether the Yankees or the Confederates were in possession of the capital city of Alabama.
Those who argued that the enemy held the city pointed to the blue coats, which were to be seen in profusion in the market, in the stores, about the hotels, and on the streets, as an argument in their favor.
If they were not masters of the city, but prisoners, as some contended, what reasonable excuse could be offered for their being allowed to roam through the town without a guard?
They evidently had the best of the argument; still, there were those who could not believe Montgomery had been tamely surrendered.
On application to the Yankees themselves for information it was found that they claimed to be prisoners, taken near Murfreesboro', and paroled.
Some of them said they were desirous of leaving here as soon as possible, in order
The Daily Dispatch: January 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], The second siege of Vicksburg . (search)