Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-28

a neat speech, enloinlDg the members TO 90 home
and put in operation the State Government they
had insugnratei
The Convention adJonrned until the first Monday
in August 49,
The Legislature will meet here next Monday.
Parties who have come in from the Western
counties to night represent them in state of rr
la war. Great anxiety is felt there that effective
measures may be taken to repel the scoundrels.
The Way Northern Soldiers are rroated .
Captain BENJAMIN r. SENPKEss. First Lieutenant
CoRNELIUs V. SIAPEINs, aud Sergeant JOIN HANCOCK
of company G. LIST Regiment SToKIEs' Brigade, pub
lish a card iuthe New York papers Of the 23d, in
reference to the treatment Oftheir men, from
which We make the following extract:
On the 10Th of May we lett the Assembly Rooms
Barracks and went to the Red House sc Harlem.
Before leaving tie Ass emily Rooms. however our
men had become uncomfortably dirty, having no
accommodations for washing either their persons
or their clothes In this condition the transfer was
made. At the Red Honse fifteen of our company
were compelled TO sleep ont Of doors the first night
for want of room inside and beds. We remained
there up till the time of our transfer to Camp Scott
Staten Island 10 the day time the men were occa-
sonally driven out to the open lots, where they
were compelled to remain, whether they were
drilling or not, rain or shine. More than once,
when they had used their blankets for protection
from the elements, they had TO cover themselves
with the same blankets when they lay down at
night.
By such means their clothing rotted on their
backs while the promise Of equipments was out off
from day to day.
On Tuesday, May %. we were removed to Staten
Island. Having arrived there we were provided
with five tents for one hundred and one men, this
arrangement compelled forty of number to sleep
in the open air for the first night Col. Williamson
continued to promise equipments. and they cOntnQ-
ed not to come. until the clothiny of our was
actually rotted off them, and they were compelled
to wear blankets to hide their nakedness The first
equipments given consisted of twenty suits, and
they were so large that most of the men who need
ed them could not wear them.
Capt. A. J. Andrews OF another company, makes
this statement:
] belonged to a company which was raised in
Delaware county. We came down to the city 70
join the Sickles' Brigade last Thursday. We num-
bered seventy men, We are mechanics, lumbermen
and farmers. The first night, about IL o'clock, we
were served with blankets. On Sunday morning
we were served with meat in d state of decomDo-
sition. On Monday Major Farnham came to our
camp. took one of our men by the collar and struck
him five times with his fist and swOre that he would
bang him and gag him, and drum him of the Island
and make example of him. Farnham dres
sed in citizens clothes the time. At time since
we went into camp have we had full allowance OF
ratiOns.
And two t'nOn-commissionel officers state their
complaints in the following language:
Sergeant Murdoch and Corporal O'Brien, mar
ried men and both members of the Fillmore Guards
from Buffalo. complain that they had been promised
five cents mile for whatever distance they wen
with the company, and that they have been dsap
pointed, in consequence of which their families are
now in want. The Buffalo Union Defense Commit
tee refuses to furnish for their families be-
cause they volunteered here. Having procured a
discharge. they will make the bes. of their way
home. They say there daily mu!inies, deser'
tons, &c, at Camp Scott. On Thuraday night a
complete company got off. and eighty or ninety men
with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets recaptured
them. Whole companies do, however, frequently
get away Colonel Williamson several times struck
a man IL the face with whip, and in consequence
his company went away, and have commenced 4
suit against Williamson. The objection against the
brigade is that the chief officers not commits
stoned, ignorant of their duties, and brutal in
their of the men, that the food is not suf
fcient in quantity for nutriment, and that the men
don't see any prospect of getting into service.
We take all the above accounts Of bad treatment
of LINCoLN's soldiers from single number of a
New York Black Republican paper-the Tribune Of
June 23d.