The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-05-10
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FROM NASAVlLLE.
Arrival Of Secession Prisoners from, Hu,tsmQe-
Sc Oatrages of Rebel Bandiai in Tennessee
Special Correspondence Of the Chicago Times.

dVJtp0t ~ OeceSSt0n 1T1SO1efS from Hu3fSDute-
Sc OMrages Of Rebel Bandiai in Tennessee. fa
Especial Correspondence Of the Chicago Times
Sass @dv alPhhe NASHVILLE, Tenn, May l.
On Sunday last an installment Of General
Mitchell's prisoners, taken at Huntsville, Ala,
arrived here on the cars. The crowd presented
amotley appearance, being composed of jaun
dice-faced fellows, who looked as if they had
obtained their "rights," and been tanned in
them. But it was not hard to discover in their
cadaverous countenances that they were glad to
end a glorious campaign as prisoners of Uncle
Sam. The humane guard detailed to accompany
them seemed to have their Difference and conf.
dence,i If not their friendship. After haltng
about fifteen minutes in front Of the Rev. FL
liott's secession Female Academy, now occupied
by Col. Matthews, Provost Marshal, as q bar.
racks for his guard, the 61st Ohio, they we're
marched to the Tennessee State Hospital spa
cious building with considerable park around
it. Thence, suppose, they will be conveyed
north ward. The prisoners we're evidently more
than contented with their condition but our
stiff:necked and peryerse ,seeessionists drew as
near to them as they might with due regard to
their own safety, and vented their spleen in low
conversation and fierce gesticulation. ,ss -
| Yesterday, five companies Of Wolford's Ken.
tucky Cavalry, who had been securing Overton
and Fentress counties, in this State, arrived in
Nashville, bringing twenty-five prisoners They
were composed of McHenry's and Bledsoe's Ten.
nessee rebel cavalry, and independent banditti
acting with them. DR.. Oversize ct, q brother
in.law Of Colonel Brsmlett, of Kentucky, and
Messrs. Garrett and Ned donald, loyal gentlemen
residing in, that portion of Tennessee, came to
the city with them. These gentlemen, who are
altogether reliable, state that msrauding bands
ofrebels in those counties, and portions of Ken
tucky near to them, are daily committing the
most shocking outrages on those suspected OF
loyalty, 10 one instance they caught . lad IL
years Of age, the son of a Union man, bound
body from the throat to the abdomen, letting
his bowels fall upon the ground. III b. ,a.,I,-
One Of the prisoners brought in by Wolford's
Cavalry is desperado By the name Of Smith,
who has been acting in concert with one Chang
Ferguson, Of Clinton county, Keutucky--a scoun
drel SO Infamous that some account of him may
be Interesting When his comrade, Smith, va.
taken, he was hotly pursued, and the party de
clare they hit him six times with pistol and rifle
balls, and saw the dust fly from his clothing
They anss confident; therefore, no has q casipf
Of some kind which aftSists Ttiilets
Some time in September, 1851, this man Fer
guson went 70 the residences Of a Union man ii
Clinton county, XVI, Nr. Frogg, who was sicl
and In bed, snd shot him In Che mouth Al
thisd not produce instant DEATH he next sho
him 10 the brain, Pemarking that he wished him
to die easy On the I'd day Of October he wen
| to the house Of Mr. Reuben B. Wood. anotbe
citizen Of Clinton county, Kentucky, who was
member Of the Cumberland Presbyterian Churci
l-al very useful, popular man in his nefghbor
hood, .-aGid, having called him to his gate. sho
him IN che bowels, inAicsing wound whicl
| produced d0ath In two days lFergusou's rcaso,
for this murder was, thit Wood had paid yisi
TO Camp Dick Robinson. Assassinsting Iowa
citiaens has been merely passime With Cham,
Ferguson His chief business, since the rebel
lion broke ous has bsen horse stealing Beside
Smith, whel was brosehs here, he has sssociate
with him one Hanllson, Of Jackson county. Ten
nsssee, and aine o. ten Others. In March M
Hsmiltou md hiS associates went over into Not
roe county Ksnsucky, and sssa assinated II, IN
day Ja.ns6 0yms, Alexander Atterbury.s an
Thome DsnAam, three quiet, well 'aisp0ced eep
tlsmen,i simply bseause they wesS snsDccted !
fioyaity soatAe government When ktterbur
\ WAS shot, Hamilton Informed his weeping INC
4 ther that hs tntsndedtok kill al the Union men b
could Andy and, ifFAeieould not ind men, b
'PNould kill their boys In their stead fWhs
i mild Uncle Samuel catches Ferguson and Hau
j iltos, What d yos sappsss he'll do " them!
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