The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-01

NV0htA VI AAuAtu AtiOllblta,
tFruh Correspondence Of the s., paafprsss
New Ulm had grown from a allvil-
large TO town Of about 2,0OOi nhabi-.
tants It's main streetran parallel with
the river for one and halfmiles the
dwellings were evidently The homes Of
taste, comfort and happiness. Two large
steam mills for the manufacture of lum-
ber and flour, one wind planning mill and
one brewery, afforded at once market and
employment. Bat all has fallen, awful
ly fallenl The utter ruin expressed by
Homer when he said "TfoQa mn is al
most true ofthis place-New Ulm was.
This beautiful village is now but a small
cluster OF buildings, about one hundred
roofs aquaFe, mostly uninhabiled when
we came, but BY the presence Of an arm-
ed soldiery a feeling Of security leads
many to return who had been driven
hence, and many others who had fed
from their farms in the region beyond, so
that the town is now quite filed to over
flowing.
The village is protected with rude but
sufficient defenses and liberal detail of
pickets from the three companies of sol
diers and two companies Of militia tenn
porarily stationed here. All out
side has been burned to ashes. The
homes Of hundred families, with scarce
~ an effort to save an article. have fall
en- before the ruthless Indian, or the stern
necessity of mutual defense. The esti.
mated loss ofproperty is about one and
one half millions of dollars. a,-s
The destruction seen here finds sad
counterpart in the country around and
beyond. Between this place and st. PEI
ter's, the country is mostly deserted, in
the panic, but not ravaged but in the
country west and north, along the Cot
tonwOod River, the evil spirits of rapine
aud murder have done their perfect work
Scouts from my company have been in
every direction, from Eve to twenty-five
miles, and all report the same ruin and
dovastation@-bu very few houses left
standing, and they are sacked of every
thing worth the trouble TO steal or effort
to destroy--every bed and mattress,
every blanket, spread and sheet, every
article of wardrobe taken, every trunk
broken open and spoiled, every article of
provision carried off, every horse driven
away, nearly every house burned with
every thing in it, and hundreds Offamilies
murdered or driven into captivity
worse than death.
Hardly harvest finished, the grain
uncut the reaper standing where the
horses were taken off in fright, or by the
Indians; unbound the rake lying on the
na,sa .sarnhnalt,1 nt.,I-,I ,.-,..-
vest field trodden under foot, and every
corn field ravaged by herds of cattle
which will soon howl for food where no
hand is left TO give. Add to all this the
savage murders of individuals and whole
families who have long lived in peace
and quit and security, and who have thus
fallen a swift prey to the Indian rifle,
Ratchet and scalping- knife and the woe is
complete.
Instances of escape aud horror came TO
notice almost daily. There is in this VIII
lage one little boy, the only survivor of a
family Of eleven members one child with
four Ratchet wounds in its head, through
two ofwhich the brain can be seen to
pulsate; one man only escaped, in a
company Of eight, ambushed by the In
dams within the limits of the town one
lady whose husband, brother, brother in
law, and husbands brother in law, fell
in the last named number, one man, shot
in the mouth with three rifle balls, yet
lives and win live, though horribly man
gled another shot with seven balls
Captain DOdd, of st. Peters, shot dead
from his horse, pierced with thirteen ri
fle balls. These are some Instances o.
the effects of the attack on New Ulm,
The prisoners carried away captive by
the Indians, were entirely women anC
children. The elder women were muir.
dered, while the younger, outraged anC
stripped of every article Of clothing were
forced TO march away with their captors
Little children were hewn TO chips be-
fore their mothers eyes, or nailed to tn,
house or fence by the hands and feet, aht
left to linger out their little lives in ago
ny. Unborn infants were rudely tori
from their place, aud flung upon the bleed
ing breast Of their dying mothers. Moth
ers and children were scalped and be
headed, and placed in CHASTITY rows OF
the ground. In fact, every indignity ant
outrage, and atrocity which a fend coul'
devise, and which have ever character
lied Indian warfare, have been praciiset
to the greatest extent upon conhdinl
and peaceful people. Pen and word
utterly fail to depict these barbarities
il has often been attempted, but neye
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