The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-07-22

Woro combinations o. Rebel Rar-
bsrities I'm the Shenandoah VAL
ley.
A correspondent Of the New York
World who accompanied Che late recon
noissanco 70 Luray, writes as follows
from the camp near Front Royal:
Tho most interesting feature Of ibis
reconnaissance was the opportunity which
was Afforded Of obtaining full testimony
in regard 20 "Rebel barbarifies." in
which many journals have expressed dis
belief Many statements have doubtless
been exaggerated, and many reports Of
Confederate atrocities have been entife-
ly unfounded The southern people are,
too, without controversy, more abundant
In free and generous impulses than the
northern; but that same disposition is
the very one which is most capable of
bitter and relentless animOsities aud most
susceptible of heartless indebtedness
Those who treat our prisoners with kind
ness are the very ones who, if you should
be led into a controversy Of words with
them in regard TO their right TO secede,
would manifest in their impetuosity Of
feeling a willingness 10 inflict upon the -
Yankees the most barbarous cruellies
which can be Thought Of
This testimony to which / alude has
been published previously, in part, but
other facts and fuller details deserve to
be brought 10 light and COMMUNICATED.
IL such Facts serve no other purpose than
| 10 expose 20 foreign nations and te future
| times the character of these Rebels and
this rebellion, they ought to be brought
10 light
When we had arrived at Milford on
our advance TO Luray, we rested for an
hour az the house Of a widow and orphans
whose husband and father had but q
| short time before been taken from his
home 10 the county Jail, from which he
was taken out az midnight with another
who, like himself, had committed no
crime, except that he refused TO disavow
his fidelity to the Union.
The widowed mother lay sick upon q
bed, Frustrated by a disaster which could
not fail TO overwhelm any one Of human
sensibilities. Her countenance, which
contained intelligence and worth, was
struggling with fortitude under its al
most insurmountable sorrows
| When was introduced into her pres
ence, and my occupation was made
known, she reached ont her hand 10 me
and said: "Tell them that they took my
poor husband away from me, and shot
him at midnight in the woods and left
him there unburied."
/ | could not converse much with hel
upon so painful subject in the feeble
state in which found her i preferred
to make my inquiries Of her daughter !
very intelligent young lady, who wai
bearing with the womanly fortitude whicl
often surprises US, the burdens Whiel
were so evidently weighing heavily upor
her From her | learned that sixteeI
months ago her father had gone 10 Wash
ingtOn to witness the inauguration o
Abraham Lincoln. While there he learne,
that il would be unsafe forhim TO return
and until the late reoccupati0n of th
; valley by Gen. Shields, he had spent hi
time in Punishment from his home AM
family. He had been home but four day
when Gen. Shields retreated up the val
ley. The General called at the house O
her father and spent two hours with hin
in conversation. That night at eleye
o'clock three soldiers came to the hous
and took him away, and he never re
turned again. He was conducted to th
jail az LuIag, and scmaized for sewers
days, when at midnight a detachment {
soldiers demanded the keys of the jaile
I and carried their victim from his place {
, Imprisonment with,anOther, who for Il
: crime had been likewise imprisoned, an
both were led to a piece Of woods tw
miles distant, where, without the cerC
mony of an execution or an accusation
7 they were shot and left by their inhuma
murderors q die.
Several days atterward his body, wit
that Of the other were buried by tn
e citizens, and when General Shields agai
!. passed through the valley they were ex
4 humed and decently inferred
have made diligent search TO dra
forth from some one the shadow Of
cause for such an outrage TO all the usui
i instincts Of civilized beings Not OF
o has been presented. lie was not a col
4 ruptOr Of negroes. He is not accused
being an abotitionist He IS accused
> affirming, without onensiveness or d,
manu- AahnAAHAf AAAuh liz AAA MhNA AI
Is would die Union man.
His enemies acknowledged that lac va
a good neighbor, and all represented hi
3 as q mild and quiet man, not meddleson
1t nor demonstrative; but full of integrit
j. and true TO his honest convictions
his family are true indicators Of the ma
he was none other than the above remarl
have represented him. The unfOrtuna
20 widow and the iatherlcss children a
= now trembling with fear Of their remors
a less prosecutors in a country where moi
- sympathize with them and none ASST
them.
~ This martyr was John r. Haynes.
l. honor TO his memory and in relief to b
W prosecuted family, the liberUlity Of Il
IN Northern people ought 10 transfer the
to a society more congenial, and provi,
Is for their future support and the educatit
IN Of his children, now left without a pr
T.. tector