May 16, 1863, Mobile Register And Advertiser
Jackson, May 6, 1863.
People are leaving Jackson in numbers. The trains for the interior are crowded with non-combatants, and the sidewalks blocked up with cases, barrels, old fashioned trunks and chests, which look antiquated enough to have come out of Noah’s ark. One doesn’t see the rosy, laughing faces of young girls upon the streets now.–Only here and there is a crinoline to be met with. Sunday before last the churches were radiant with an array of beauty which the world could not surpass; but now, alas, the encroaching outposts of the enemy are within our county, and our women are wisely fleeing before their polluting approach.