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IS 4.2 Story of an Emigrant.
were strong Union men, and soldiers in the Union army.
During the great struggle of four years many bloody
tragedies had been enacted between the loyal and the rebel
residents. and bitter feelings of revenge still rankled in the
breasts of the survivors. During the whole period of the
war the country had been swept clean, at rapid intervals,
bv both armies alternately, and each time new
atrocities-had been perpetrated, and all the worst passions ot the
people rekindled. It had also been a place of refuge for the
worst rebel elements in southern Missouri, when too hardly
pressed by our friend Gen. Sanborn and other Union
commanders. At the time of our arrival the surviving
soldiers-from both armies were returning to their homes, also many
refugees,—rebels from Texas and Union men from the North,
—most of them to find their families destitute and their
property destroyed.
" The irregular Confederate troops under Gen. Jeff.
Thompson, numbering some eight thousand men, had not yet
surrendered, but were scattered over the district in a thoroughly
demoralized condition, so that the whole situation
was-rather peculiar and very bad, and it was a difficult task to
prevent fresh outbreaks, and to restore order and get the
people started anew in the pcacelul avocations of life.
"My instructions were to preserve law and order, to
organize and arm companies of home colonists for self-protection,,
to encourage agriculture and commerce, and to assist the
citizens in restoring civil government, "flic men under my
command during the early reconstruction period had
certainly no reason to love Arkansas, because they had not onlv
buried their best friends and comrades within its borders,
but had themselves for months and months experienced there
that dreadful suffering most feared by all soldiers, and for
which few receive any credit,—namely, the inglorious priva-
’•’.ru John II ** inborn, who wn» prevent when this paper was rend.
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