| From the Augusta Constitutionalist |
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| February 10, 1865 |
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| A Noble Deed |
| A late military order caused a
large portion of Hood's (now Taylor's) army to pass over the northern
portion of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad. The good people of
Gainesville, Alabama, upon learning this fact, together with the
condition of the troops, and the appreciating their heroic conduct,
determined to give them a feast. J. Blass, Wm. Neville, Esq., and Col.
R. G. McMahon accordingly took the initiative, when all the citizens
of Gainesville and vicinity, ladies and gentlemen, took the matter in
hand and daily sent forward a feast that would have gladdened the
heart of an epicure. These feasts were spread out at Gainesville
Junction, and when a train of troops came along they were invited to
make a most agreeable charge. Unfortunately the engine on the branch
road {the Mississippi, Gainesville &
Tuscaloosa RR} met with a mishap. For a day or so the citizens
were deprived of their inestimable privilege, and some trains of
soldiers of a most ample feast. Such noble deeds as these need no
comment as they proclaim their own eulogy. Let the people everywhere
in the Confederacy open their hearts and ample store houses and follow
this most praiseworthy example, and we will in a little while have no
use for conscript officers or their bureaus. |
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