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Fourth and Thirtieth Louisiana Infantry

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CHARLESTON MERCURY, January 4, 1865, p. 1, c. 3
The Nashville Journal of the 24th is full of the Yankee accounts about Hood's reverse. It says:
. . . It is said that, in passing through Franklin, the rebels gutted all the stores and a number of private residences. In Maury County they have been conscripting everybody able to go into the army, and confiscating the property of all who had fled the conscription. It is thought they will make a free use of whatever may be in the stores of Columbia, now that they have to leave. A citizen of Columbia informs us that nearly all the mills in Maury County had been burned by the Federals when they were evacuating that region, and when the rebels shall have left the county the citizens will find themselves poorer by several millions of dollars.
Gen. James F. Knipe, of the Seventh Cavalry Division, made a lucky hit on Saturday afternoon, near Brentwood, capturing two flags, belonging to the Fourth and Thirtieth Louisiana Cavalry, together with about two hundred and fifty prisoners, including twenty commissioned officers, two brigade musicians, and two sets of musical instruments--one of silver and the other of brass. The flag of the Thirtieth Louisiana was faded and torn, red cotton ground, with blue cross, and twelve silver bullion stars on the cross. That of the Fourth Louisiana (commanded by Colonel Hunter, who was also captured) is a magnificent one. The ground is of red bunting, with a cross made of heavy blue silk, the border of yellow twilled silk, twelve gold stars being upon the cross. This flag bears the following inscription: "Jackson, Port Hudson, Baton Rouge, and Shiloh."

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