Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-06-03

the wounded. and in one instance beating
with the butt Of a musket the skull OF q
drummer boy, who had received wound
which might we'll be presumed TO be myrtai
Another says
The cruelties Of the rebel General Jack
son. 10 the loyal people q Winchester, Va
were such only as savages are used 70 prac-
lice. He marched off old men who could
not frht and made hem walk many miles
through the deep mud Of winter. A vener
able Quaker, Job Tbrockmor,on by name,
was 40 forced of, and broke down under The
hafd-bips and exposure. He was taken sick
and sent TO the rebel hospital. His relatives
were refused all access 70 him, aud punish.
mtnt Ia eatened to any one who might tell
where be was, and he died Of neglect and III
treatment
Says another:
Yesterday the body Of one of our soldiers
was found sitting against tree with bis
throat cut. the evidence Of bis having been
wounded baiore the foul deed was done be
ing plainly visible. Another was brought in
with his bead crushed in, probably with the
heel of boot
The Maryland soldiers who escaped
from the rebel attack on Gen. Banks
forces, report that:
On the third approach If the rebel Gen
Ashby. he displayed a white flag until Within
pistol range, when Col. Henley ordered 10
cease firing. The white flag was then thrown
down, and the enemy rushed on our troops,
cutting aud slashing and refusing all quar-
ter.
A private letter from Commodore Por-
ter, addressed to Senator Grimes, which
we publish in another column, contains
this account Of another case of infamous
treachery;
"The Louisiana was set on fire and cent
down on the vessels while was engaged in
drawing up a cspitulation for the surrender
Of the forts-G flag Of truce flying at ths time +"
A letter from Western Virginia to the
Cincinnati Commercial says:
"a soldier of the Eleventh Massachusetts,
| told me that in the course Of the day they
were several times driven back by an over
] whelming force Of the rebels, when they
rallied, and in turn drove back their assail-
ants that they frequently were forced to
| leave on the ground their wounded comrades,
| who would Of course fall into the power of
their enemies. On recovering their former
| ground hey iaUariqbly found than bayoneted
nth ghastly Dou7ds all OUsr their bodies, heads
and faces, and, in seUerai iRttanceS, their heGd8
/ tOere bloom to pieces as If shot with the muz-
zles OF their guns placed close TO them, aud
! of which he entertained no doubt. This is a
refinement Of barbarism hitherto unknown
in the annals ofcivilizsd warfare"
/ The New Orleans correspondent of the
New York Herald gives the following ac-
count of still more revolving cruelties
practiced;
"Lieut. Beverly Kennon, late OF the U. S.
Navy. is now q prisoner on board the Onei.
da. 10 the engagement Of Thursday morn.
| ing he commanded the steamer Governor
Moore, formerly the Morgan. Krnnon states
that the fight was one Of unparalleled fury.
! The Cayuga fred stand OF grape at his
! pivot gun, where fifteen men were stationed;
thirteen Of bis men were killed by it, one
J man and himself alone escaping. Previous
I to the fight his steward in some manner dis
| pleased him, and be in bis fury and madness,
| literally hacked him to pieces with bis
| sword, and then threw him overheard half
alive. This vile wretch says that ship
| gave him broadside which sunk him He
then set her on fire without making The
! feeblest attempt 10 rescue the wounded and
! dying. An officer of one OF our vessels
| boarded the Governor Moore with the in
| tention of putting out the fire; but so far
had the flames progressed that he was
| obliged TO leave. He reports that the decks
were covered with the dead and dying
some OF whom were already in the flames
writing in their last 0gonies. II was i'm
! possible to save the poor fellows aud they
burned up many Of them alive. The hor
If IA mill 1,a
and / think now that the enemy have lost az
least thousand men in killed, wounded
and missing"
A Virginia correspondent writes:
The two notorious bushwhackers, Koehl
and Vein r, we're hung al Sutton on last
Friday, having been convicted OF murder
These barharOus wretches, during the latter
part Of last summer, caught poor boy who
had been driving a government team alone
one the road: They inhumanly cut OF bic
head with scylhe and disemoowelled him;
and, ia their iendsh joy, boosted that they
bad killed one Yankee. They were captur-
ed, convicted Of the murder and executed"
The following particulars of the recent
attack upon a party bearing flag of
truce up the James river gre related by
the correspondent Of the Baltimore liner
can, under date of the 21st.
Captain SMITH, commander Of the Wa
chusett. have been received by the people
Of a village with professions of good
feeling.
On Monday morniug an application was
sent to The Wachusatt 10 allow physician to
come on shore 10 visit woman
said to be dagger usly H. Believing
the application 70 be genuine appeal
that humanity required should be promptly
ATTENDED to, CaplaIn Smith gave pei mission
for the surgeon of The chip to 20 on shore on
a visit Of msroy, TIE Wactu e,t laid some
distance below CITY Point az the time. and