The Semi-weekly Shreveport news. [volume] (Shreveport [La.]) 1862-1864, 1862-09-30
- Gigantic Robbery.

week ago last Thursday morning we
Witnessed the beginning of the second
grand robbing expedition on the Mississippi
coast by far more cxtenS We and rulnous 70
our people than that which we saw on the
west side Of the river the previous week
Col Perkins had crossed the river TO aid
Col Thomas in the frs, expedition. and we
presume the favor Was returned by Colonel
Thomas in this piundering expedition on
the Gus; side of the river, which We VIII
now attempt to describe.
! The Steamer Laurel Hill made u halt at
Shepherds plantation, about fifty miles
above New Orleans. east bank OF the Mis-
| sissIppi, on Thursday morning, the attn inst
and the cavalry 90 land, Immediately com.
! ,ucnced its work Of plumber MIR. 81 @ )herd
WAS a, once irnned hand and foot, by IL Mas
sachusetts Colonel, and every negro. mule,
| horse, beef, and all movable property that
could be l, AIDE use III to the enemy, includ-
! ing all valuable articles III and around the
house, were carried of. The empty build
ings, the land and the crops were all that
remained for the former possess"1s OF
peaceful, comfortable. and happy nome
After the work of destruction was completed
the irons were removed from the limbs OF
the robbed planter, and the cavalry and
thunder advanced to the NJ xt plantation
Here the same operation was repeated as on
: Shepherds place, and this work Of ruin was
continued fer distance OF over twenty
miles Irons were placed upon the hands
and feet of a venerable old planter whose
name we think is Duplanten. He is nine
, ~ wears old. They robbed him AS they did
all OF his neighbors. Their object appeared
: TO be to ,nortify, humble, and ruin every
PLANTER Oh whose soil their accursed foe'
were placed aud to make all the profit,
' they could at the same time.
On Friday morning, 5th inst. we stoot
: upon the west bank Of the mississippi. II
miles below the place where we had oh
served the beginning OF the robbery a
= Shepherd's the previous morn, ana saw IN
Y steamer Morning Light dropping down tn
river abreast Of the Massachusetts cavalr
i, and their plumber. This steamer had o.
hoard about $50 men, and three or tol
e pieces of artillery. apparently for the use :
O protecting the plunderers. Behind th'
"a was the Laurel Hill. dropping dow n abreas
ofthe cavalIy, her decks cleaned appaten
, " for receiving on board their monnte
e thieves in case they were in danger OF a
d attack. This was the beginning. OF II
- second days robbery. How tar they e.
tended their Operations below we are UNI
81 Bile to say But we saw. As the fruits
OF their first days work of intsmy. tram
D. negroes, carts, beeves. mules. hofses. ete
-, which showed that sc pres of families we
80 ruined BY them ap to that point Ih'
Id worth of property plundered from hous
i; intend to sweep the cas-. side Of the river
~ high up rs Baton Rouge.
IS Such infalny, audacity and meanness
m have never before witnessed on either
in large or small scale. These emulators
IRA Bii1ey Wilson's tactics. these hyPocri,
80 who professed to know that there was
l1e powerful Union party in the state, a
Dr. who talked about 1.-THE stars AMI strip
Nv aud the best Government the Sun e'
ws shone upon" these Judsses. Cstslines
Billey Wilson's now rob and ruin IN.
sd' Union men. and say, d-n the Union
theyrob widows, and orphans, and vencra
he aud helpless old men.they even rob
ne poor-they even insult helpless widows a
a their unprotected dsughters
,ut But we need not comment. Where
the Louisianian or the true Southern m
whose blood does not boil at the monstr
lty robberies, the burning insults flung into
ew very faces of Louisianians by Massac