The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-06-22
communication.

In your paper Of the 18th inst, is an
article referring to the violation of the
graves Of federal soldiers by the ladies of
this town, in which you said you had
waited to see some refutation of the
charge, and that a denial Of the state
ment never had been made. Such a de-
NAL you might have seen long ago, had
the editor of the Louisville Journal in
which paper the scandalous charge first
appeared, been possessed of a single feel
ing of Justice or common honesty, |
wrote to him on the first day of the pre-
sent month, giving him plain statement
of the case, and asking him to publish
my letter He has never done so. Sim
liar false charges have been made against
the citizens of various towns in the South,
most of which have proved to be false,
many of them being branded by the
Federal officers themselves. The Journal
made similar charges against the people of
Winchester and Front Royal, and in that
paper of the 18th inst, on the first page,
is an article stating that those charges
were base lies. Three other letters be-
sides my own were written to the Jou-
naI denying these charges, and yet he has
PERSISTED in not publishing any, thus
showing that he had some motive besides
love of truth in publishing such scan
| dal
Now, sir, l think this war has enough
of horrors, full enough to make the heart
ache and bleed, and quite too much that
is calculated to foster hatred and ILL feel
ing without resorting to any such lying
reports of baTbarity, and hence propose
TO prove to you that the people here are
not all heathens; and l will give you the
facts in the case alluded to also
heard the speech of Col Campbell, and
went the next morning, as did hundreds
of others, to see if his statement was
true. Not a single grave had been
trod on, and this was plainly shown by a
crust upon the fresh earth, caused by a
slight shower soon after they were made,
which crust was entire and unbroken,
with single exception. This was the
| grave of soldier, who died at the house
of citizen. This grave had been lev
eled of and some flowers and twigs
planted on it by some little girls who
had known him on his sick bed. II may
have been done roughly, but it was the
honest tribute of their innocent hearts,
and deserves the highest praise, This
was all that was visible about the graves,
and Col CAMPBELL was notified of the
facts by the Mayor of the town and the
Sexton of the grave yard, and asked to
go and see for himself lie promised to
do so, but nevr went. Col. CAMPBELL
made the charge, honestly no doubt but
upon false information, and he ought IN
common justice to have corrected 1t.
said would prove that we were not all
heathens, and l will do it. The following
card appeard in Our OLD Flag, a paper
published by the Goth Ohio CCol, CAMP
BELLS regiment,) and is dated on the
same day Of the Louisville Journal in
which the charge appeared
a card.
Permit me, through the medium OF
your publication, 10 return thanks Ia
those good citizens Of the town aud
neighborhood of Franklin, who have been
so very kind in furnishing various pala-
table dishes drinks and delicaoies 20 Oul
sick in the Hospital-languishing upon q
sick bed, far from home and those we
hold near and dear. Such kindness from
strangers is doubly appreciated, and viii
ever be held in grateful remembrance.
LEW, SLUssER,
Post Surgeon
FRANKLTN, May %, 1862.
Many, in fact nearly all, of those re,
feFred to in this card are ladies, many Of
them secessionists as l know They
forgot their politics, aud the prejudices
natural to those who lool, upon the sol
| AltlN as thtli tAtLulNhf alh olll saw ~
the sick and suffering, fellow creatures
who needed their aid, and they freely
gave it, yet in the articles referred to al
are branded as demons, and capable OF
the most hcinous crimes. tell you, sir
and l ask you TO publish it to the world
that the ladies of Franklin have as greal
a horror of such a crime as you or any
body can have, and they would detes
the perpetrator as a criminal, unworthy
Of society In no place in the South ha
the army, sick or well, received more
respectful and kind treatment and every
honest soldier that has been statione,
here win tellIOu So Itneods be, car
prove the truth of what have told yo,
by dozens Of witnesses, and in conclu
sion, ask you in the name Of common
justice to publish this letter
Respectfully
S. p HuDRETH.
MURDER on UNION MrN.-Adyiccs from
Batcsville, Ark, to June 1tb state tina
twenty four Union men, including tw,
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