May 30, 1863, Charleston Mercury
The people of Mobile have exerted themselves most energetically and humanely to provide for the transportation from Pascagoula and shelter in their city of the large number of refugees which the barbarous edict of the Yankee Government has driven from New Orleans. It was estimated that they numbered from five to six thousand! They embrace all ages, sexes and conditions of life. It would take many days, and the Mobile Register says possibly weeks, to remove them from their place of landing on Pascagoula Bay to the city. Such a scene of wholesale exile has not been witnessed in modern times. It carries back the world to barbarous ages, and exhibits the Yankee nation in the light of one of the most cruel, unrelenting and brutal of the races of men that have flourished in any age.