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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, May, 1863. (search)
ppi appeared to increase the nearer I got to it, and General Hebert told me that it was very doubtful whether I could cross at all at this point. The Yankee gunboats, which had forced their way past Vicksburg and Port Hudson, were roaming about the Mississippi and Red River, and some of them were reported at the entrance of the Wachita itself, a small fort at Harrisonburg being the only impediment to their appearance in front of Munroe. On another side, the enemy's forces were close to Delhi, only forty miles distant. There were forty or fifty Yankee deserters here from the army besieging Vicksburg. These Yankee deserters, on being asked their reasons for deserting, generally reply,--Our government has broken faith with us. We enlisted to fight for the Union, and not to liberate the G-d d-d niggers. Vicksburg is distant from this place about eighty miles. The news of General Lee's victory at Chancellorsville had just arrived here. Every one received it very coolly, an