The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1863-02-19
NRws FRoM rHE souTTt.

NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.
Reign of Terror in Mississippi and
Alabama - Heartrending Scenes
----Women Torn to Pieces by
Bloodhouuds.
The Memphis correspondent Of the
Cincinnati Gazette, under date Of Feb.
11th, furnishes the following account
Of tho terrible prosecutions Of tho Un.
ion men Of tho South, by the rebel au-
thorities. Surely the vengeance of a.
just God will visit the perpetrators of
these iendish and inhumau outrages:
Great outrOgcs are now experienced
by the unfortu cate residents of North
Alabama and Mississippi. In the latter
State the Legislature recently enacted
law embracing as conscripts all msn
not included in the Confederate act
The act of JEFF. Davis includes oil from
eightoon to forty years Of age, and that
recently passed takes all from forty to
sixty years of ago. The territory of
Mississippi has been laid off in districts
OF twenty miles, and recruiting Colonels
appointed for each district. A thou
sand Colcnels have been appointed to
enforce the couscript act, and tho mill
tia in North Alabama is even worse.
Many Union men 10 that section state
that violent efforts arc made to force
them into the ohrederate ranks. The
Union men have long hid out in the
woods and caves, rather than be tuken
as conscripts. This induced n move
hunt for them. Gucrrillas and blood
hounds have been put upon their track
and many poor victims have been smell
out in this way.
Not long since young girl, carrying
food to her father, who was hiding in
cave, was attacked by one of these blood
hounds and torn to pieces.
IL is estimated not less than 1,00t
Union men from Mississippi and Ala
bama, have made their way to Corinth
where Gen. Dodge made all possible pro
visions for them. Gen. Dodge sent ou
and brought in the families of the per
secuted and downtroddon Union mcn
and has established sort of encamp
ment or home for all these families a
Purdy, where they are likely to be frcet
: from persecution.
At Corinth regiment is forming o
Union men from Alabama and, ,Mississip
pi. 1t already numbers six full com
panies. Capt. j. G. Cameron, Proves
Marshal of the District Of Corinth, is t.
be Colonel. This regiment is made n
from among those who have recent
suffered prosecutions.
Abrnm Kennedy and J. A. Mitchell
of llackolbo settlement, Munroe county
: Alabama, have been hung by the rebel
for induiging Union proclivities. NJ,
Hollwork and daughter Of the sam
county have been shot; and Rector Lew
is, an immediate neighbor, of suspcctc
: Union proclvities, was hunted down b
, bloodhounds aud captured The hous
" of j. A. Palmer, Worry Williams, an
" other Union men, were burned ov,
- their families heads, and the peop
= living in the neighborhood notified th
- if they harbored them their own hous,
i would be burned Mr.. Peterson, livir
u at the head of Bull Mountain, was killc
~ for Union sentiments. Two women
y" Tlacumbia county were torn to piec
- by blood-houDds. In addition to Il
foregoing, one hundred families driv,
% out of Alabama, reached Corinih {
foot without food or clothing. Sor
70 of the fugitiVes are old mon, so yea
:, Of age.