Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-06-04
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/ More about the butcheriea af Wincheator.
The special correspondent of the New
York Evening Post, writing from Williams
port Nd, May 27, says;
"In the city Of Winchester, which had
received at our hands treatment kind even
to foolishness, where the rebel wounded of
two months ago were treated as our own
/ brothers, where insult on insult has been
borne with forbearanee, was committed a
series Of barbarities which beggars de-
seriptioh and makes one shudder to think
of. From behind doors and windows the
rebel women threw hand grenades, hot wa
ter, old bottles, or anything which could
/ disable, and in many instances with their
own hands fred upon our men,. In one
case a man in company C, Second Massa-
chusetts, was shot by woman from house
] openly, the creature smiling at the success
! of her shot, when corporal levelled his
/ piece and shot her dead. Men who were
I left behind, but afterward managed to es-
cape, say the houses were full Of men and
women armed with pistols or any other
available arms with which they kept up a
| CALLING FIRE on our men. The cavalry com
ing up behind, sabred every poor wretch
who was thus wounded, or was too sick 10
keep up with the double-quick Of the re-
treat. The hospital was set on FIRE, the
wounded and sick having first been bay
onetted, Men who lay down wounded,
unable to make the faintest resistance
We're slaughtered without mercy. In vain
they begged their lives the black flag was
Haunted over them, and that was the end
Of them
It seems hard to believe human nature
capable Of such atrocities; but the evidence
is Of so many eye witnessnes that il is i'm
\ possible to disbelieVe them The rebels
pushed so rapidly through town in pursuit
that many Of our men were run over, and,
/ when the rebels had gone, escaped by a
back way. These had full opportunities
/ to get fair view Of the whole scene
Rebel men and women we're running
around like fends, vieing with each other
! in their hellish work. The streets were
stained with blood The air was full of
smoke and the smell Of gunpowder, and in
the midst Of It all the store in which were
the ordnance supplies took fire, or was set
on FIRE, and blew up. Our men themselves
fired one or two houses from which they
had been fired upon, and the cracking Of
7 inc n1AHtaf anu Lub ANAAAllE Oh tluDeEs Nul-
| ed 10 the already tremendous confusion.
Weak and tired though they were, the
men pressed on to Martinsburg, and, after
brief rest, pushed still further towards
Williamsport, arriving on the other side of
| the river about ten in the evening. It was
the first rest the men had had for eighteen
hOurs5 four Of which they had been fight
ing and the rest marching Ali through
the country we passed there was a regular
stampede Of Union men and negroes. AT
Martinsburg there was the greatest trepi-
dation, but from the ladies of that place
every kindness was received. They brought
wine and water, and whatever they had,
and distributed it freely to our tired men,
It was the first hospitality l have seen in
the Old Dominion
Our loss in killed and wounded would
have been comparatively small had the
rebels contented themselves by taking the
weak and sick prisoners. AS it was they
shot them and sabered them without mer-
ey, SO that our loss viii be heavy.