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The Daily Dispatch: November 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Conscription in Alabama. (search)
A camp of captured negroes. --A correspondent of the Montgomery Advertiser, in a letter from Blue mountain, Alabama, gives a description of the camp of six hundred and fifty negroes who were captured in Dalton, Georgia. He says: It was nearly sunset when I first got a glimpse of them, huddled around large fires, in a deserted field just outside the limits of the village of Oxford.--There they stood, crouched around the blazing logs, their ebony faces peering out from beneath Yankee caps with that peculiar ludicrous expression which you can imagine would be upon the countenance of a corn-field negro turned soldier. Their long-tailed blue coats and pants, slung on the frames unaccustomed to such gear, gave them the appearance of so many straw-stuffed effigies. As the day began to melt into twilight, and the breeze came sweeping in chilly blasts from the mountain, the darkies crowded closer and closer, until around the burning logs preparations commenced for supper. The c