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The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Louisiana St. Gar Crop. (search)
t presents the appearance of a smart little village of the backwoods. 'Twould make you feel as if our young men of the South were not forgetting the exercise and culture of their intellect if you could pass by their huts after supper every night, take a peep in there, and see how intently many of them are engaged in the perusal of some useful book. This not uncommon to see them sporing over the pages of Shakespeare. Byron, Mrs. Hemans, Longfellow, and other literary works. I saw a soldier to-day very attentively reading Pope's Iliad, and another with a life of Napoleon, bearing it away to his quarters. I have been thinking that the friends of the volunteers could not furnish a more valuable contribution to them, just at this time, than a good assortment of books, and candles to read them by. These nights are entirely too long to sleep all the time. The Christmas is going off quietly. Some few instances of John Barleycorn's jolly influence are seen. More soon. Luna.
The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
Mutiny in Col. Curran Pope's regiment. The Louisville (Bowlin Green) Courier, of the 27th ult., says: We learn that there is considerable trouble among the Kentucky regulate in the Federal army, and that such anxiety exists among the Yankees as. What will be the result. The message of Lincoln and the report of Cameron have acted such universal dissatisfaction as to quit demoralize those companies which are composed of a fair proportion of men of ordinary intelligence. In Col. CurraCol. Curran Pope's regiment, as we are informed upon authority that we can vouch for, there has been an on mutiny. On reading Cameron report, some two hundred of his men at the threw down their arms, declaring that they would not fight if that was the feast to which they had been invited. They were arrested, and under threats and entreaties now were induced to go into the ranks again. The bulk, however, persisted in their course and on being threatened with the utmost vigor of the military law, the