Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-07-30

killed my old father and three BROTH,
YOU have shot me IN both arms f,r.,
YOU all this can get we'll, Let ma sM ',
home to my mother and sisters Wb,ss
heart of adamapt the man must have vb'
could disregard such an appeal TbeG
tie boy was dragged back TO the place y,
execution again the terrible word Ems
was gwen and he fell dead, eight hail,
having entered his body The remamn.
three were murdered in the same marna,
Those in whom life was not entirely av
tinct the heartless officers despatched WIN
their pistols
! A hole was then dug, and the thirer
bodies were pitched into it. The gnu
was scarcely large enough, and some 4
the bodies lay above he ground
wretch named n. b, ID Jay, Virginia.
but attached to a Tennessee company /
the 65th North Carolina regiment, iumpa
, upon the bleeding bodies and said 10 SOM
, OF the men, "Pat Juba for me while
9 dance the id scoundrels down to and
9 through he'll. The grave was coyer9
f LIGHTLY with earth, and the next day, wbs
= the wives and families Of the murdered
= men heard Of their fate, searched Tor and
e found their grave, the hegs had rooted q.
d one mans body and eaten his head off,
e Cant. MORLEY, in charge OF a eaya.r|
= force. and Col. Thomas in command Of 4
IS number of Indians, accompanied Keith,
n. men. These proceeded to Tennesa
IA Keith's men returned e Laurel, and ass
Is instructed to say that the cavalry had ylt.
ct EN- the prisoners with them to he tde(
s. in accordance with the pledge of Col. Al
IL len. In their progress through the coul
he try. many Union men We're known to haT
On been killed and scalped by the nclans.
,et ITpon the return OF Keith and bis M
ON to Laurel. they began Systematically
torture the women of Union men, to ion
to them TO tell where their fathers and m
file bands were, and what part each had ia
m ON in the salt raid. The women retis
as 10 diyulge ANYTHING. They were l
whipped with hickory swltehes-many
be them till the blood coursed IN stea
of down their persons to the ground
If the men who did this were called soIdI
Mrs. Sarah Shelton, wife of Esau SheI
who escaped from the town, and
90. Mary Shelton wife of Litus Shelton, "
whipped and hung by the neck till d
tho were almost dead, but would give %
an formation. Martha White, an Idouc {
If was beaten and tied by the neck to
is all day,
os; Old Mrs Sallie Moore, 70 years of {
lie. was whipped with hickory rods till
nj blood ran in streams down her back
ler the ground; and the perpetrators Of
nv were clothed in the habillments Of ve
ell hon, and bore the name Of soldiers
lnad One woman. who had IN infant n
10 six weeks old, was tied III the snow
mo tree, her child placed IN the doorUa
, n,o, her sight. and she was informed that #
' d;s did not tell all she knew about
abla seizure of the salt. both herself and
os child would be allowed to perish.
.o,7a oeant n. b. D. Jay, of Capt. BeyD
,rca company, and Lieut.. r, M. Deere
,,bat sisted their men in the execution Of Il
helhsh outrages: houses were burned
.ortb torn down. An kinds of properly
IT, Destroyed or carried off
,urel In April last jesse Price, an Ola
sixty years Of age, two sons ana
ragi- nephews, We're arrested IN johnson
Six ty, Tenn, bordering on Virginia, by
.Ianv Touke's cavalry composed OF LEM
a IeA and North Carolina men. They WEI
rtici- ken to Ash county, n. c., to be rlt
nong disloyalty t. jefferson Davis \ Go.
,bnrf When the five prisoners arrived
XIV. county, North Carolina, a gr'
,nrt ! keeper proposed to treat Fouke's n
Iaore eight gallons of brandy if they
VIM hang them without a trial. The
ten was struck, aud the FIVE info tuna'
Shell, We're hanged without any further
even ny. The brandy was turnishe
irtaan some o! it drank before the TRACED
n do rest afterward."