Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-12-15

Bigby, Green Austin, ard james Vaughan,
ali strong Union men, had negroes taken by
the Federal army.
These names have been given so as to pre-
sent distinct issues which may be denied or
proven. 1t is sufficient on this subject to say
that several hundred negroes were taken by
| the army, and that the general opinion Is that
| more negroes were taken from Union Men
| than from Secessionists, as many Secession
lists had moved their negroes on the approach
of the enemy,
Gen. Lanes quarters, for himself and staff,
were at Major Berry's. BE never paid any
bill, or offered to do SO. When he left, he
took away seven of Major Berry's negroes:
a negro woman escaped with her child and
came back, saying that she did not want to
go, and that her clothes were in camp. Some
of bis officers were consulted, who said they
did not want her if she did not want to go,
and that she could go back and get her
clothes. She went to camp and was secured,
and file of soldiers went and got the child.
Mrs. Weaver, a widow, had nine negroes
taken, her carpet taken off the floor for sad
die blankets, also her window curtains,
sweetmeats, etc.
Mrs. Shackelford, widow, had her piano
taken and hauled off to Rolla, besides many
other things.
Col. Lovejoy, in an animated conversation
Will JOuuB DSCdIuG SACLlCU. SuOOh HIS
fist in her face, and said: 1--WE mean to strip
you" meaning to take property.
Large amounts of forage were taken from
Union men as well as Secessionists without
pay or account. An intelligent Union man
estimates the quantity of hay alone at one
thousand tons 4 large quantity of mer-
chandise was taken from many if not all the
stores 10 Springfield, without pay or account,
and they did not cou0ne themselves to such
articles as they needed, but took anything
they faucied, even ladies' white kid slippers.
A Mrs. Stephens, q widow lady, sixty
years old, and violently in favor of the
Union, and who ardently desired the return
OF the Northern ermy, before it arrived, was
robbed of everything the soldiers wanted,
and when she eXpostulated with them, they
cursed her, and called her :" damned old
secesh," etc. Mrs. Fulbright, seventy-fve
years old, was frequently cursed in the pres
ence of officers, and on one occasion, when
they cured her for taking care of wound
ed Southern soldier, she stated that she had
nursed two from the South and ore from the
North at the same time; they continued
their abuse aud curses for nursing the South
ern one. Her fence was burned, and she was
robbed of everything they wanted. In the
n, ighborhood oil Springfield, in the months of
June and July last, large number of per-
sons who were suspected of entertaining
Southern feelings were arrested and required
to take an oath to sustain the Government CT
The United States, and then discharged. In
the occupation of man who was supposed
to sympathyse with the South, although he
had done no act against the Northern Gov
eminent, and his property taken.
E. r. Fulbright was one of these he had
large amount of property taken, and two
and half miles of fence burnt. Near
Springfield. owing to the scarcity of timber,
fencing costs from sixty cents to one dollar
per I'D. 1t is estimated that there are TWEEN
ty miles of fencing burnt. Slaves were con-
veyed off by Fremont's, Sigel's. and Lanes
divisions of the army, and probably by all
the others, except General Wyman. It was
frequently asserted by the officers that they
had no confidence in the loyalty of slsvehold-
ers; and, as one expressed it, ga slaVehold-
er is damned fool to be a Union man ~
The above facts have been gathered after a
careful investiga ton of the truth extending
through period of three days, and are capa-
BILE of proof that would satisfy any court of
justice in the United States or Confederate
States. / have mixed Intimately with the
citizens of Springfield and its vicinity, and
have met no man but declared that be had
been deprived of more or less property by
| the Northern army. 1t is my conviction that
at least one hundred dwelling houses have
been robbed, and such things taken from
| them as the army or soldiers desired. With
out an exception, every one with whom /
have spoken upon the subject has denounced
the conduct of the Northern army as licen-
tious in the extreme, while the conduct of the
Secession army in Missouri has been con
trasted Herewith. II. F.