The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1862-05-20
FEDERAL OUTRAGEs.

A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal writes
from Corinth, under date of April Goth, as fol
lows:
have row to record an act of revolving i'm
piousness and petty tyranny, on the part of the
Lincoln soldiery insulting alike to the living anc
the dead, which lately occurred at Lexington
Kentucky, the truth of which is vouched for by
all the inhabitants, which cannot be exceeded BY
the dtspicable tyrant Alexander
1t appears that the remains of Lieut.. Edward
Keene, of the I'd Kentucky Confederate regi
mcnt, who died at GAINESVILLE, Tenn, were re
moved to his family at Lexington, Kentucky, fol
interment On a previous occasion there hac
been great demonstration made by the citizens
Of Lexington at the funeral cortege of one of oul
gallant soldiers who had fallen at Donelson, anc
some abolition citizens of Lexington, named
Dudley NJ. Craig, p Scott, J. A. Harper, j. T
Miller, Mllward and others, to show their loyalty
petitioned General Halleck to prevent such
further demonstrations, and not permit hereafter
deceased soldiers of the Confederate army to be
brought home. Thereupon Halleck issued an
order that no more than twelve persons should
attend the funeral Of any Confederate soldier.
In the present instance the noble qualities OF
the deceased having won him great popularity
his Union friends telegraphed Halleck, at St
Louis, for permission for carriages to attend the
funeral; the request granted, but the number
limited to twenty. On the day of the funeral OF
1t. Kcene, about the 9th of last March, the
Colonel of the SD Indiana regiment whose name,
unfortunately, my informant has forgotten, posted
guard or detachments of companies of his regi-
mcnt from the house Of the deceased along the
crossings of the principal streets, with two COM
panies at the gates Of the cemetery, and one
inside surrounding the grave AS the funeral
moved from the house Of the deceased, there were
TO he oiybt
pied by ladies, when the dastardly Colonel, with
squad of his hooSier mercenares rode up in front
of the hearse and stopped the procession in most
brutal and insulting manner, ordering his
creatures to count off eighteen carriages and stop
all the rest. At this infamous outrage many
ladies got out Of the carriages and proceeded on
foot with gentlemen; when, at the corner of second
street and Broadway, they were stopped by
another company Of armed Hessians and not per-
mitted to pass any further.
A. the gates of the cemetery the hearse was
again stopped under some pretext, and consdera-
bic delay took place. when some ladies in the
carriages, to avoid the profane and indecent
language of Lincolns brutal soldiery, closed their
carriage windows. At this number of the armed
scoundrels Of Company l, Of this SD Indiana
regiment, made most insulting jeers, while one ex-
clamed, ''shut your windows, you ID rebel -"
he procession was now permitted to enter the
burial grouads, when a scene occurred the most
dSgraceful ever recorded of people with the
slightest pretentions to civilization or christianity
The coffin being removed from the hearse, the
brutal Lincolnie soldiery of this SD Indiana
regiment refused to give way in order that the
coffin might be placed in the grave, or to permit
the re atves Of the deceased to perform their last
sad tribute to the memory of tie dead! It was
only when being pushed aside, and seeing the
firm determination of several friends of the de-
ceased, that sense Of shame at their own infa-
nous conduct forced these brutes to stand back.
And even after this,-when the ceremony of the
solemn funeral rites was being performed over the
grave, and the grief and tears of women should
have commanded holy silence and touched a
heart Of stone, these fends interrupted the OBJ
sequies with coarse jokes, blasphemous language
md brutal laughter, making a mockery Of the
and scofing at the dead as the corpse
was lowered into the grave!