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Yankee outrages in Louisiana. The Raleigh Church Intelligencer publishes the following private letter from a lady living on a Mississippi river plantation in the Southwest. The editor vouches for the trustworthiness of his correspondent: Elkridge, August 31, 1862. Time and language would fall me if I attempted to give you an account of all that we hear of their outrages in New Orleans and the adjoining country. Don't believe Butler's lies about "Union sentiments" and loyal citizens there. If there is a place where the Federal are most detested, it is here in Louisiana. In New Orleans the ladies never go out of their houses if they can help it, and then are always armed as, in all parts of the State exposed to their inroads, the woman are. I believe I am the only woman in this community who has not arms and does not know how to use them, and I think I could shoot, too, on an emergency, only I have such a distaste to weapons that I think I would rather be killed t
At Richmond, Petersburg, and on James river20,000 At Lynchburg, (conscripts in camp of instruction for the last three months,)40,000 Vicinity of Romney, mostly guerrillas8,000 At Gauley, and in Western Virginia, under Gen. Floyd15,000 Total in Virginia328,000 At Knoxville, and in Eastern Tennessee20,000 Near Louisville, under General Kirby Smith25,000 Near Glasgow, under Gen. Bragg20,000 In Eastern Kentucky, under Gen. Williams5,000 70,000 Department of Missouri, west of the Mississippi river, under General Holmes and General Magruder50,000 Department of the Lower Mississippi, in Arkansas, and at Vicksburg, under Gen. Hindman40,000 Near Corinth, under Gen. Price50,000 Mobile30,000 Charleston (half of these are conscripts)40,000 Savannah (half of these are conscripts)40,000 Total rebel force in arms648,000 But while the rebels at Richmond feel easy in regard to that city, they are greatly troubled about Charleston and Savannah. The conviction is very general in R