Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-11-08
REBEL BARBARITIES.


The malignant spirit of the rebels is
strikingly shown in an article in the Rich
mond Examiner, in which, speaking of
the Union men of Northwestern Virginia,
it says: "The most of them have pack
ed up, ready to leave for. Yankeedom at
the shortest possible notice In Braxton
county every tory has been shot by his
neighbor, and in several other counties
the citizens devoted to the confederate
cause are doing good service in the same
manner" -'.
The following instances of rebel outrage
are related by the Louisville Journal:
We have conversed with an intelligent
lady who was at Lexington, Missouri,
when it was taken by Price, and she gives
sickening details of the barbarities COM
mitted by the rebels. Among the prison.
ers taken was DR.. White, who was offered
a pass by Price after the capitulation,
with which he went about two miles be-
yond richmond with Major Becker and
Captain Neat. While at their dinner,
party, headed by the well-known despera-
does Charley Martin, Steve Emmerson,
and Ike Lightner, came up and took the
officers off in coach, but refused to let
the doctor, who was an old man, go with
them, but he was subsequently taken one
mile from the house into by-path and
there shot twice through the breast; he
laid from Thursday till Tuesday, and
when the inquest was held, the hogs had
eaten all the flesh off the body except
that which was protected by his boots.
| Two weeks after this fiendish murder, his
wife, with our informant and lad, went
to Richmond and brought away his re-
mains. Mrs. White, who is neice of
Ex-Governor Desha of this state, occupied
a fine farm of about five hundred acres,
nearly all in a state of cultivation. The
ruffians entered upon this, destroyed one
hundred acres Of corn fifty of oats, valu.
able peach and apple orchards, broke the
cider machine, smashed the grandchil-
dren's playthings, thrust bayonets through
the windows, carried off the carriage and
sixteen horses, killed seventeen head Of
cattle fifty sheep and hundred hogs,
and riped up nine feather beds in fendish
wantonness leaving Mrs. White without
a place to sleep on, and compelling her to
borrow bedding for herself and family.
Theft murder, and the most shocking:
barbarities were practised by all the rebels.
from high to low. Mrs. Colonel Grover,
during the BATTLE took refuge on a boat
for security, and her husband was woun-
ded In the foot. She asked General Price,
for her clothes, which he refused to sur.
render, leaving her and her children
without change Of raiment, for many
days, until he was about to commence;
his retreat. He then gave her an order
to obtain her garments. but by this time
every article of any value had been stolen
or destroyed. Nor were women the only
objects Of brutality the wounded Union
soldiers were not exempt Some ofthem
hhad been taken into vacant house be-
longing to Major Blewitt, and, when he
was made aware Of the fact, he rayea and
stormod like maniac, took an ak, threat
encd to chop off the head ola lad in the
basement, and then hauled wounded men
down the steps into the street, where they
4 were exposed for many hours in the sun
with fostering wounds 9 a7lgi
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