“Huntsville,
Alabama”
Harper’s Weekly, March 19,
1864
This town, which is now
the head-quarters of General Logan, and a sketch of
which we give on page 188, is the only one in the South
that I have visited, says our correspondent, that in
itself suggests inhabitants of cultivated taste and
refinement. The streets are regularly laid out, and
well shaded by fine trees. The houses, too, have
architectural design-a something that few homes of
“ye Tchivalrie” can boast-and have about
them gardens well laid out, and very neatly kept. The
inhabitants are disposed to be “Union,” but
are fearful of the consequence of an avowal in its
favor, in event of the reoccupation of the town by the
rebel troops. Still there are among the citizens very
many stanch Union men, who do not hesitate to say their
thought. I have seen but one female endeavor to show
her dislike for the “wretched Yank.” This
one, after much effort, got up such a visage that I
produced sketch-book and pencil to reproduce the
novelty; but she would not stay en pose, and for
consequence has not the distinguished honor of an
appearance in Harper. The Court-house Square is each
evening the scene of a dress-parade of the Thirteenth
Regulars – General Sherman’s bodyguard, and
a splendid regiment – Vicksburg heroes too. The
command of a General John E. Smith is in and near the
town, in camps that are said to be the very neatest
that have ever been seen.
