| From the Columbus (Ga.) Times |
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| November 26, 1864 |
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| Traveling in Mississippi |
| The Jackson correspondent of
the Uniontown Herald says: |
| The railroad from Meridian to
this point is in excellent condition, and travelers arriving here can be
accommodated with everything that is good and substantial in the eating
line, at the hotels or at private boarding houses. I would recommend,
among the latter, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Overmann, both estimable ladies,
and keep excellent houses. |
| The trains leave here three
times a week for Canton, where, if you wish to continue up the
Mississippi Central road, you lie over one night and can be accommodated
with the best of fare and bedding, by my old friend, Calhoun, of the
Pearce house. Taking the train on the Central road you arrive at
Grenada, at 4 p. m. The latter place, since Smith and his Yankee
followers left it, is one mass of ruins. They were not satisfied with
burning the town, stealing negroes, cattle and poultry, but all that
were not carried off by them, were killed and left to rot on the road. |
| I would advise strangers
visiting Oxford to carry at least three days' rations and a blanket with
them, and not get caught as I was. It being my first visit, I fared
badly. I was laughed at by the negroes and boys about the railroad when
I inquired for the hotel. Some even said, "there goes one of Gov.
Clark's tax in kind to report to Col. Denis." I felt rather sheepish,
but learned a lesson. I fell in with a Missouri captain, who very kindly
showed me the way to a lodging house, where I was accommodated with a
bed, but nothing to eat, the landlady saying she had scarcely enough for
her own family. Your readers will also acknowledge that Oxford is a poor
place, when I was told in asking change for a hundred dollar note, to
pay my bill, that there was but one man in the town who had so much
money in six months, and he was the assistant quartermaster. |
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