True Democrat., 1862-12-17

would as leive the federals would spit in their faces as to offer the oath to them. Our boys, at every opportunity would catch the reIiegades who took the oath, kick them, cuff them, and in some cases, strip them and while some held them others would paddle them "
 On several occasions our friends sent us Elouey, but the commandant of the post took it from rs. Col Muligan stole upwards of twenty thousand dollars from the prisoners. There was some talk of court nartiang him, but it blew over and he kept his stolen plunder. I isMulligan is the same whom Gen. Price took at lexington, and who, with his men, were paroled by the Missouri chief tain. They camete Chicagoand were set IS guards over us. Others oi our guards were soldiers taken by us and paroled at C0rinth James river and other places They care no more for their paroles of honor. tban dog does for Sunday. Col. Tucker, who resigned before BlanaSsas, was re-appojnted and again resigned the day before the battle of Shiloh, also stole over two thousand dollars from the patriot prisoners. He is the same cowardly scoundrel who struck of our men one day. three times with his sword, in the presence cf the goyer- nor of tue State. The man had said or aone noih ing to warrant, this brutal assault. Tucker had been told that some of the prisoners had given three cheers for Jeff Davis, and this so eurlged the coward who had twice resigned to avoid going into battle, that he assaulted the first patriot he met, though the latter was unarmed and prisoner. The prosecutions were not confined to the living, but extended to the dead, for, when one of our
 
 '' the dead house'' The surgeon, with gangsof students, would then proceed to cut and carve the dead patriot under Pretense of instructng the stu dents i'll anatomy. In the hospital the msdcal treatment administered by students of four months study, who were who'll wand utterly igno- rant and incapable. This 1 know, and that our men were literally murdered by them.
 In fact they killed Us upon every pretext. The day Mulligan's regiment3eft, one of the. federal soldiers swore he would not leave town until he had killed "secesh, and So he did, for he got his gun, came back, shot Iso a crowd of prisoners, killed two and wounded another. ] have not time or space to give more instances of the cruelty practised. It would till volume.
 On the 2d of Sept, the first squad of prisoners were sent to Dixie to be exchanged. On the rail road about fifteen miles from champion city, the cars were ran off the track, killing two and wound ing forty others. We arrived at Cairo on the 4th, 1 where we were cramrned in boats ndkept for5 CT days. Our fleet of ten boats left on the I0ti and got along without accident, except detention of half day on a sand bar above Fort Pillow. The rest of the trip pleasant one, and very often, the people would to the river bank, huzza for Jeff. Davis, and the ladies wave flags and kerchfefs to us. @ | have written this hurriedly, to give you some sort of an idea how the Yankees treat prisoners of war. This is a mere outline; the filing up would take too long and would render the picture much darker than the one have sketched. I
 ! ours truly,
 ". F. MORTON, MI
 Asst. Surg, tlth Reg. Ark Vol