Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-10-11
JOHN G. BANTER
P. S.-I was present. j. G. B.
Brutal Outrage in Kentucky-Un of
BRrbarity of the Traitor Buckner.

7. ST. was present. j. q. b.
Brutal Outrage In Kentucky-Unheard of
BRrbRrity of the Traitor Buckner.
From the Louisville Journal of the 10th we
take the following:
The day preceding Buckner's occupation
of Greenville, in his native county of Muh
lenburg, Mr.. Wing, an old resident Of the
town, veteran of the war of 1912,
and an ardent Union man, breathed his
last; leaving, as a dying irjunction to his
surviving partner and his friends, the request
that he might be buried in the flag of his
country.
This touching charge of the venerable pa.
triot was rendered more affecting by the
fact that his love for the American flag had
been marked feature of his whole life. His
devotion to the Star spangled Banner was
proverbial in all his region. 1t amounted to
q passion. 1t was the one form in which
throughout his declining years the rich and
intense loyalty of his nature sought full ex-
preston.
Every Fourth of July for the last quarter
of a century and upward, as regularly as
the glorious anniversary dawned he had
raised the Stars and Stripes in his humble
door yard, and had kept them flying
proudly until the close of the day. The sight
of the starry banner of the Republic, though
rendered dim by the cloud of age, was to
him a solace and an inspiration, bringing
tears of mingled pride and Joy to his filmy
eyes, and smiles of hope to his sunken lips
and his withered cheeks. He had been born
under the American flag; he had lived under
it and fought under it; and, now that he was
dying under it, he asked, as his last request
on earth, that ere he should be consigned to
the grave he might be wrapped in the folds
of that worshiped banner-that it might be
his shroud in death as it had been his canopy
through life. He died with this prayer on
his lips.
The following day as we have said, Buck
ner, at the head of several hundred of his
fellow marauders, entered Greenville; and,
learning the death of the patriarch aud,pa.
triot Wing, whom the renegade had known
from boyhood, and learning also the dying
request of the stricken hero, sent word to
Mrs. Wing that he could not allow her dead
husband to be buried in the American flag,
but instead of that he should be buried with
military honors under the flag of the South
ern Confederacy And 30 the brutal traitor
actually buried the noble old patriot-buried
him in defiance of his dying injunction, in
defiance of his character and of his life p cad
ing trumpet-tongued against the desecratiou,
in defiance of the tears and entreaties of his
widow, in defiance of the earnest protesta-
tions of his surviving neighbors and friends,
in defiance of the most sacred habitudes of
civilized society, in defiance Of the clear aud
loud dictates of humanity, in defiance of the
commonest decency, and in defiance of the
everlasting infamy and scorn that wait on
the monster who employs, to execute the
deeds Of brute, the energies that have
given him q station among men.
From the Louisville Journal of the 10th
we make the following selections:
General Richard Williams, brother of
Cerro Gordo Williams, has been driven with
his family from his home in Western Texas
by the Secessionists, and is again in his ma
tive Kentucky. And now he sees his traitor
brother uniting with other traitors 10 drive
him and his family and all other friends of
the Union from Kentucky. But General
Dick Williams will prove hard to drive. He
is resolved to enter at once into the service
OF the State and country and try to do lit
tie driving himself.
NEW REGIMENTS.
The Hon. Laban T. Moore, Colonel VIM.
Yinson and Colonel L. J. Hampton are
actively engaged in raising regiments in the
upper counties of the Ninth Congressional
District of Kentucky. They are meeting with
decided success, and the Sandy Valley Advo-
cate pledges the mountains for her full quota
of troops.
General Sherman is actively engaged in
the business Of his department, turned over
to him yesterday by General Anderson, aud
is stopping at the Louisville Hotel, occupy
ing the same rooms previously occupied by
his predecessor.
SOUTH EASTERN KENTUCKY.
We have cheering accounts as to the pro-
gress OF the Union cause in Green and Monroe
Counties. A gentleman who arrived in the city
yesterday from Greensburg informed us that
there were encamped at Camp Andrew John
son, near Greensburg about fifteen hundred
Federal troops, attached to General Ward 8
brigade. The greater portion of Colonel
Orders regiment, which is now quite full,
are encamped in Monroe County, upon the
Tennessee line. Many of Colonel Orders
recruits are from Middle Tennessee. Colonel
Grider will leave this city for Monroe County
to. day, and will commence at once the
Thorough organization of his regiment which
is composed of the best material in Kentucky
and Tennessee.
sKIRMIsH AT GRAYsoN, KY.
The Sandy Valley Advocate Of Thursday
last says that a rencounter occurred on the
30th at Grayson between party of Seces'
sionists, who were attempting TO Join the
camp in Pike County, and the Home Guard
The Home Guard successfully resisted them
killing two and taking some seven or eigh
| prisoners.
The Hon. ] John J. . Crittenden passed through
| Lexington on Thursday, on the way TO thu
mountains. The object of his visit will b.
to arouse the gallant mountaineers to taxi
service in the Federal army.
oUTRAGEs.
On the night of the 7th inst a company o
squad of cavalry, from Buckners band Wis
tied the house of DR.. Walton, Senator from
| Hart, and broke open bis house, closets ant
| trIrke, stealing sandry articles Of bo23!ai
and groceries, also horse belong to Colone
G. T. Wood; they also entered the house Q
David Maxey and pillaged beds and bedding
and horse and mules, and hung up his negr
man, TO compel him to tell where Mr.. Make,
and Mr.. Pointer, his son. in-lAw, were. The,
also stole Mr.. Pointers horse and saddle
This squad was commanded by MOnro
Adair, formerly of Greensburg. .. p.
GOVERNOR HELM.-The Louisville JotrnO
understands that Governor Helm has bee
permitted by General Sherman to. return
TO his home, under pledge that he will rt
| main nuietlV there. pursuing his usual ave