Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-11-03
9asbbiIls Onion ann 9nuifm
ourrases Oh The Federal SoIaerY.


The robbfng propens titles Of the Federal soldiery
in Missouri have been INDUCED to such an extent
@ that even the abolition press is beginning to fear
the consequences of such unbridled pundering
as hasobtaned, and to urge restraint. The fol-
ss lowing from the Missouri correspondents Of the
Sas Cincinnati a1sss gives but FAINT picture of the
o. outraees that have been perpetrated upon the peo
- of Missouri by the hirelings who have been i'm
y rted to subjugate them. The writer, who was
SCI with FREMoNT's army, says:
SCI 5tn my last letter spoke of the Inauguration of
s~ the foragug SYSTEM and the disappearance Of
feathered bipe6s etc, from the face of the earth
hereabouts. Iregret to say that the practice was
g. carried to extrames by soldiers and officers until
III General Fremont felt bound for the reputation
IN of the United States army to put stop to it.
On the road on Thursday last we saw regiments
~ of troops passing along threefourtbs of the
bers of which carried dead turkeys geese chick
Ca ons on their bayonets. Nesriy every army wagon
we nassed contained g. couple of hogs o. cslves.
Worse than all many soldiers killed stock st farms,
and left nine tenths of the carcass to rot on the
ground Houses were entered and depleted of VIC
tuas whether tie occupants were Unloniss or DIS
unonsts, the soldiers seldom stopped to inquire.
Assuming an authority never given them they plum
dered everything and anything. Such state Of
things could not ongexist wi bout bringing disgrace
81 upoo cur army and our cause. On Wednesday
morning Gen Fremontput an emphatic veto on it
10 the shape of order to the effect that any sol
ders or officers convicted of forsgng or plunderipg
mercy.
Chicago Tribune, Lincon's old Illinois organ
comics this statement and only admits its truth,
fulness in every particular butmakes other charges
against the Federal forces, saying that the "track
of our 1.-THE Federal1 columns in Missouri may be
known BY the converts to secession that the outra-
= ges of our 1.-THE Fe1eral] soldiers have made" and
that 'Iust such have attended the march Of
the Union troops in almost every place where they
have penetrated" The humiliating confession is
made by the Tribune that when Gen. Mcdowell
moved out to Bull Run the line of march of his
army was marked by Msnton and needless devssta.
ton; and only few days ago, Gen. McCellAn's Ten
after following up the retiring rebels-were Sc
verely reproved for their destructive and felOuious
propenstes /" and it is added that "Hurbuts troops
in Missouri echpsed them all by the variety and
extent Of the outrages they committed"
We are rejoiced to these manifestations of q
return to civilized notions with regard TO the con
duct of the war, the part OF the Northern press;
but at the same time would say TO the people OF
the South. in the neighborhood of Federal armies,
that newspaper denuncistions will not stop the rob
big and numbering generally INDUCED in by the
.hreings who have been sent to fight the battles OF
the North. To protect our lives and property we
must rely on own strong arms, instead of the
moral perception of our enemies.-MemPhis Ap>
pal Oct. 81,