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George C. Burmeister diary, 1864
1864-02-13
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A number of rebel deserters, among refugees and negroes are daily coming into our lines who, report the rebel army demoralized and very much dissatisfied with the tyrannical laws of the Jeff Davis despotism. They also report that Gen. Sherman is advancing without much opposition.A delegation of six men arrived from the interior counties of this state with a petition bearing over five hundred signatures and to which more would have been added if the paper could have been obtained, praying the forces of the United States to come among them, to assist them in organizing themselves against the Confederate authorities to resist the rebel conscription which forces every able bodied man in the Confederacy into their army, compelling even the soldiers whose term of enlistment has expired to continue in the service. If the people of the South could have their own way I think a great many would emigrate to the North. I met two families of refugees, who came from Alabama, a distance of three hundred miles, they were tolerably intelligent and reported is very difficult for persons to escape from the Confederacy, one young husband and father of one of the families, came through the rebel lines disguised as a woman, these people say dissatisfaction is becoming more general in the South, and the common people say this war is, "the rich man's quarrel + the poor man's fight."
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A number of rebel deserters, among refugees and negroes are daily coming into our lines who, report the rebel army demoralized and very much dissatisfied with the tyrannical laws of the Jeff Davis despotism. They also report that Gen. Sherman is advancing without much opposition.A delegation of six men arrived from the interior counties of this state with a petition bearing over five hundred signatures and to which more would have been added if the paper could have been obtained, praying the forces of the United States to come among them, to assist them in organizing themselves against the Confederate authorities to resist the rebel conscription which forces every able bodied man in the Confederacy into their army, compelling even the soldiers whose term of enlistment has expired to continue in the service. If the people of the South could have their own way I think a great many would emigrate to the North. I met two families of refugees, who came from Alabama, a distance of three hundred miles, they were tolerably intelligent and reported is very difficult for persons to escape from the Confederacy, one young husband and father of one of the families, came through the rebel lines disguised as a woman, these people say dissatisfaction is becoming more general in the South, and the common people say this war is, "the rich man's quarrel + the poor man's fight."
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