American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-07-25
A SPECIMEN OF YANKEE CONDUCT.

A SPECIMEN OF YANKEE CONDUCT.
We have recently had an interview
with friend from the vicinity of Pike
vile who says, in regard to the conduct
of the Yankees. while in that. place that
on the 18th of June, messenger from
the mountain on the McMinnville road.
came in, announcing the approach of the
Federals in force, and that they were
then about eight miles off, and their ad-
vance pickets coming on at double
quick.
Most of the prominent Southern men,
profting by the experience of their breth-
rem at Jasper. left town. At II O'Clock
the pickets. numbering eighty men. en-
tered with navy repeaters drawn. and
dividing in the public square, posted
themselves on the various roads leading
into town, some going up the main val
ley road two miles or more.
Soon the main body of cavalry came
in numbering about 1,400; after them
came the infantry in wagons, about 600
strong, with four pieces of artillery-one
Parrot rifle gun. The officers quar-
tered at the houses of the citizens, orders
ing their dinner, while the men encamped
| in grove near the Academy. BY 2
o'clock they were turned loose sat ease"
and the work of plundering commenced.
They first entered the store of S. b.
F'railey and relieved it of everything val
liable in few minutes. driving their
wagons to the door and filing them.
Another crowd IN the meantime was
busy removing the goods from the store
of j. G. Robertson, which they cleaned
out entirely, together with the letters.
papers, &C., in the P. O.. which was
kept in it. They attempted to break in
to his safe with an axe and cold chisel,
but after damaging it SO as to render it
useless, they abandoned the job. They
then entered the store of Wilson 81 Co.,
by the back stairway. plundering it of
most of the goods and destroying the
Misunderstanding pills with pepper.
breaking ink bottles in the drawer with
laces, &c. Getting into the counting
room they broke open the desk and tore
up and scattered around promscuously
bills, invoices, letters and private papers,
taking with them note safe with some
ten or twelve thousand dollars worth of
notes. They "pressed" all the horses in
the neighborhood they could get hold of,
and carried with them some So head.
They relieved our citizens generally of
all the bacon, corn, fodder, oats, &c,
near town shot all the chickens, geese
and turkeys they could get sight Of +; pill
LACED the house of Mrs. M. M. Hill. wild
ow of Capt. Hill. who died while in the
Confederate service took the clothing,
Ijewelry, &c, of her deceased sister. which
she was keeping as mementoes, and di-
vided them out to the female hangers-on
about their camp; destroyed all the
clothing of I. Pankey, deceased, which
his wife had in private room. and per-
formed thousand other acts of vandal-
ism not easily enumerated. They arrest
ed several citizens, but not getting hold
of any they particularly wanted, turned
them loose on their departure. They
mixed with the negroes. and endeavored
, with promises of good pay and freedom
to entice them off. They got away with
nine, FIVE of which were returned from
McMinnville and Murfreesboro. On Sun
: day evening, the 18th, they left, taking
with them sixteen recruits for their ar
, my. These men were of a particular
, character, which does not contain philan-
, thropy or patriotism enough to entitle
: them to the name of "citizen' in any
country This section is relieved of a
class which are a nuisance in any COM
munity. The class which had been called
respectable Union men," is open in
$ denouncing the conductof of the FEEDER
ais, and even decent negroes are disgust
ed with their treacherous pilfering and
insulting conduct.
Such evidences as these are necessary
5 to convince some people of the true char
, ac.er of the Yankee nation.
? atlanta Confederacy.