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Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
t, and the proffer was promptly accepted. When we returned to Montgomery, preparations for removal were in such state of progress that thech in question was simply this: There had been much jubilation in Montgomery over the news from Virginia. Serenades had been made, speeches dsettled that the Capital was to be moved to Virginia, the city of Montgomery began to wail. It had all along been utterly and most emphaticalntract made or implied, in locating the provisional government at Montgomery, that it was to be the permanent Capital; or that the exigencies y, everything had been completed — the President and Cabinet left Montgomery — the fact, that had for some time been a real one, was formally plies for the army, munitions of war, or government property from Montgomery, blocked the road in all directions; and trains running not on tiVirginia. They retained a lively recollection of their lesson at Montgomery, and had kept rather quiet till reaching Columbia. There the dev
Crescent City (California, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
he engines cold and fires unlit. I had full time, but my good luck — the first since I started-put me in a glow, and I stepped out in a juvenile pace that would have done credit to the Boy in training days. As I came nearer, my mercury went rapidly down to zero. Every car was jammed, aisles packed and box-cars crowded even on top. The doorways and platforms were filled with long rows of gray blankets that smelt suggestively human! Crowds of detained passengers and three companies of the Crescent guard had taken their places at midnight, and slept with a peacefulness perfectly aggravating. As I walked ruefully by the windows, there was no hope! Every seat was filled, and every passenger slept the sleep of the just; and their mixed and volleyed snoring came through, Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme. There was no sort of use. I'd have to try the Express, and deep was my chuckle as I reread my friend Grimes' remarkable production. It would be an oasis in th
Columbia (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
tly enhanced demands required; and at every station nearer Richmond, the pressure of passengers and freight became greater. Through Georgia I bore the troubles of the transit like a philosopher; but under three detentions between Augusta and Columbia, of from nine to thirteen hours, patience and endurance both gave way. South Carolina had gone into the war with her eyes wider open than those of her sisters; and while she had yet time, was straining every nerve to utilize all her availablFrom him was learned that he was with the train that had carried my old friends, the Zouaves, to their fresh fields of glory in Virginia. They retained a lively recollection of their lesson at Montgomery, and had kept rather quiet till reaching Columbia. There the devil again got unchained among them, and they broke out in a style to make up for their enforced good behavior. Sich a shooting of cattle and poultry, sich a yelling and singing of ther darned frenchy stuff-sich a rolling of dr
Kingville (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
ions the New York Tribune dispatch Montgomery murmurs troops en route, and their feelings the Government on wheels Kingsville misnomer Profanity and diplomacy Grimes' brother-in-law with the C. S. Mail-bags. Very soon after their state wenergy seemed to be misapplied. After a rest, I found a freight train with a philanthropic conductor, and started for Kingsville. Vae Victis! I reached that station-what a misnomer!-in a driving mist and a very bad humor. Neither was a fine p pounds subtracted from his avoirdupois would have brought him a black eye. Stay all night! The idea was an aguel! Kingsville was a splendid aggregation of one house and a long platform. The town-i. e., the house-had, even in palmy days, been rever make connection there? We were four hours late, and with much reason had, therefore, to wait five hours more. If Kingsville is cheap and nasty, Weldon is dear and nastier. Such a supper! It was inedible even to a man who had tasted nothing b
Pensacola (Florida, United States) (search for this): chapter 11
tiful preparation for the future. Everywhere in the South was earnest endeavor and heartfelt enthusiasm for the cause; but I saw it nowhere directed into such practical and productive channels, thus early, as in South Carolina. Charleston, Pensacola and Virginia had drained her of younger and more active men; but the older ones and her vast resources of slave labor made up for the loss, and neither time nor energy seemed to be misapplied. After a rest, I found a freight train with a ph-in the shape of mordants, vivacious, active and gigantic-besides Wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleeper. To mend matters, Gartrell's regiment of Georgians, eight hundred and fifty strong, and three other companies of Georgians from Pensacola, had been left here to meet a way-train, which failing, they bivouacked by the roadside. In all there were over eleven hundred tobacco-and-gin redolences, remarkably quiet for them; shooting at a mark, going through squad drill, drinking bad l
Adams (search for this): chapter 11
was wet and tired and generally bewildered. Was it a wonder that I then and there swore at that fireman, as only meek and longsuffering men, when aroused, can swear? The volley was effective, however, and he very politely told me the agent would be roun‘ before the train started. Presently he pointed out the desired individual, to whom I hastened to hand my note. Now the terrible denunciations my former friend had made on his own soul were as nothing to what the present representative of Adams & Co. called down upon his own and everybody else's immortal function. Well, I hope to be eternally — by--! But it ain't no use!---- my — soul, ef yer shan't ride somehow! remarked this profane expressman. Yer be Hector Grimes' brother, and by--! go yer shell! Yer married his sister Cynthy--the one as squints? Why----me! I knowed her when she wasn't knee high-and yer done---- well, by--! Here, Potty! and he addressed a greasy man just mounting the mail car-Here be Grimes' brother,<
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 11
for the reception of the remainder. Troops in large bodies had already been forwarded to Virginia from all parts of the South, and all indications were that, before the summer was over, an active campaign on the soil of the Old Dominion would be in progress. About this time, a telegram from Montgomery appeared in the New York Tribune, which created as much comment at the South as at the North. It stated, in so many words, that the whole South was in motion; that a few days would see Mr. Davis in Virginia at the head of thirty thousand men, Beauregard second in command. With the two sections in a state of open hostility, and with armies already in the field and manoeuvering for position, it was somewhat singular that the avowed correspondent of a northern journal should be allowed in the southern Capital; but, when his dispatches bore on their face some signs of authoritative sanction, it became stranger still. The correspondent of the Tribune was a well-known lobby member
Charles Sumner (search for this): chapter 11
and, as the cars backed up, the men broke ranks and jumped aboard, filling every crack and corner, and seeming to pile on top of each other. A berth there was utterly impracticable to any man with any of his senses in active operation. That squirming, dense mass of humanity was more than the oldest traveler could stand, and I gave up my place in the rush. Luckily, there was an express car along, and I found the agent. He was very busy; and eloquence worthy of Gough, or Cicero, or Charles Sumner got no satisfaction. Desperation suggested a masonic signal, with the neck of a black bottle protruding from my bag. The man of parcels melted and invoked terrible torments on the immortal part of him if he didn't let me g'long wi‘ the ‘spress, as he styled that means of locomotion. The accommodation was not princely-six feet by ten, cumbered with packages of all shapes and sizes and strongly flavored with bacon and pipe. Yet, not for gold or precious stones would I have exchanged
Pierre G. T. Beauregard (search for this): chapter 11
es had already been forwarded to Virginia from all parts of the South, and all indications were that, before the summer was over, an active campaign on the soil of the Old Dominion would be in progress. About this time, a telegram from Montgomery appeared in the New York Tribune, which created as much comment at the South as at the North. It stated, in so many words, that the whole South was in motion; that a few days would see Mr. Davis in Virginia at the head of thirty thousand men, Beauregard second in command. With the two sections in a state of open hostility, and with armies already in the field and manoeuvering for position, it was somewhat singular that the avowed correspondent of a northern journal should be allowed in the southern Capital; but, when his dispatches bore on their face some signs of authoritative sanction, it became stranger still. The correspondent of the Tribune was a well-known lobby member of years standing, but avowedly a southern man. His interco
O. K. Jump (search for this): chapter 11
tion. Well, I hope to be eternally — by--! But it ain't no use!---- my — soul, ef yer shan't ride somehow! remarked this profane expressman. Yer be Hector Grimes' brother, and by--! go yer shell! Yer married his sister Cynthy--the one as squints? Why----me! I knowed her when she wasn't knee high-and yer done---- well, by--! Here, Potty! and he addressed a greasy man just mounting the mail car-Here be Grimes' brother, as must git to Weldon, by----! So hist him along, will yer? O. K. Jump in, Mr. Grimes, agreed the mail agent; and by this time I was so wet and disgusted I didn't care who I was. So in I went, playing Grimes for this night only. Here's luck, Potty! may — me, but I'm glad I met yer, Grimes, remarked my profane friend, taking a long pull at the bottle I handed him in my gratitude. Here's to your wife, Grimes! and the cars starting just then, deer bil took another pull and, with great absence of mind, put the bottle in his pocket and waved us adieu. T<
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