Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1861-12-14
The Devastation of War in Kentucky.


The Devastation of War in Kentucky.
The ravages of civil war have been as ter.
rible in some parts Of Kentucky as in Mis-
souri,. A letter says:
"Had the seven plaques Of Egypt passed
over the Cumberland district IL would not
have been more desolate. The poor farmers,
who, 10 a season Of plenty have not more
than enough to see them safe into the Spring
were robbed Of every sack OF flour and pound
of pork. Their fences burned, their cows,
sheep and geese shot dead in their tracks. l
counted on one farm, that of noted Union
man, thirty head of cattle shot and left in the
| fields TO poison the air with their pestilential
odors From not one of them had single
steak been cut. As the Federal army march
ed along, the affrighted inhabitants came
skulkne from the woods to look at their de.
vastated dwellings. The uugathered corn
! served to feed the Rebel horses, and its plan
ters now go mourning up and down the land
without food for their starving families"
You often hear Of outrages committed by
armed traitors, so vile in their nature that
they can hardly be credited, and, for a want
Of credible authority, they are passed by as
false statements. Let me give you some facts
which | learned from Colonel George Il.
! Wood. o member of the Kentucky Military
| Board. He got them from j John NJ. Frame
| of Monroe county, Kentucky, who is Quar-.
termaster in Colonel Orders Kentucky re-
| gimeDt.
A few days since about 1000 infantry and
| $50 cavalry came from Bowling Green into
Allen aud Monroe counties and robbed the
people Of over 100000 worth of property
consisting of fat cattle, hogs, blankets and
other personal property-such as they could
drive or carry away.
They had, ou a previous visit, robbed Mr..
Frames family OF nearly everything 10 his
house, bot he hGd replaced some articles by
purchase and borrowing, so that his family
could cook and sleep at bone. The last time
they stripped him completely, drove of oil bis
hogs, 200 in humber, all bis horses and cattle
destroyed his household furniture, and, 10 the
presence OF his wife nnd daughter, took their
| best clothes their bonne:s and all the look
! ing. glasses in the house into one room, and
with jeers, jibes and yells, such as Secession
! fiends can utter, crashed and tore their bon
nets, clothes and looking glasses into atoms
and danced upon the ruin they had made
while shouting for JEFF. Davis ono his Govern
ment.
| Did the wife and daughter quail No, thank
| God. They told the traitors to their teeth
they were and would remain loyal to the Gov
ernment and flag of the Union, and that the
power of the Union was moving upon the and
that The power OF the Union was moving upor
| the traitors in al! directions. and would speed
! lily plant the Stars and Stripes upon every
point now polluted by the traitorous flag o
the rebellion, and then a day OF reckoning
would come, and crimes such ss they were
committing would NEE. with certain, terrible
and just punishment. The feDds left them
] Al -
but their loyal principles. What they did tt
Frames family they did TO all loyal citizens
in those counties, till gloated with plunder
they marched back to their camp of kindred
| traitors
These are the men, sent by the traitor Buck
| ner and the pious Polk, to protect the peo
! pie of K Kentucky against the usurpations o
the Legislature. These were trait ors in arms
Now for traitor at home.