The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-08-01
A Record of Inhsfman Cruelties

A Record of Inlfsfman Cruelties.
Rcbct BarJarities in East Tennessce-Tnnocent
| Men Hanged-Chidren Shot and Homca
Tortured to Death.
The editor of the Memphis Bulletin, who has
been upon visit to Nashville, communicates
the following TO his paper, in reference to Rebel
rule in East Tennessee. Colonel Crawford,
! from whom the facts are obtained, has per-
sonal knowledge of some Of the circumstances,
having left the scenes of their enactment quite
recently, and vouches for the truth of all of
| them:
Last summer three young men, brothers,
named Anderson left their homes in Hawkins
county, and attempted to make their way into
Kentucky. They We're arrested by IL squad Of
Rebel cavalry on Church River, about seventy
five miles from Knoxville, shot, and thrown into
river Their bodies We're found floating in the
stream, fifteen miles from their own fursaken
homes.
TIE SCARCITY OF SALT.
In the month of January, 1863, at Laurel, n.
c., near the Tennessee border, all the salt was
seized for distribution by Rebel commissioners.
Salt was selling al seventy-ve TO one hundred
collars Il sack. The commissioners declared
that the " tories should have none" and posi-
lively refused TO give Union men their portion
OF the quantity to be distributed in that vicinity.
This palablc mi Justice aroused the Union men;
they assembled together and determined to seize
their proportion of the salt by force They did
so, taking at Marshall, n. c., what they deemed
to be their just share.
Immediately afterwards the Sixty-fifth North
Carolina Assignment, under command OF Lieut.
Colonel James Keith, was ordered to Laurel to
arrest the Offenders.
ARRESTS FOR SEEING SALT.
L. NJ Allen was Colonel of the regiment but
had been suspended for six months for crime
and drunkenness. Many of the men engaged
in the salt seizure left their homes. Those Who
did not parii:ipate ii it became the suttclers.-
Among those arrested were Joseph Wood, about
sixty years of age; ID. Shelton, sixty; lanes
Shelton, fifty; Roddv Shelton, tittv-hve; Elias
King, forty Haen Meore. forty; Wade Moore.
thirty-fvc; Isaiah Shelton, fifteen; William
Shelton, twelve; James Metcalf, ten; ,Jasrer
Channel. fourteen; Samuel Shelton nineteen,
and his brother aged seventeen, sons of Iitus
Shelton-in all, thirteen men and boys Nearly
all of them declared they were innocent. and
had taken no part in appropriatinr the salt
They begged for trial, ASSERTING that they
could proye their innocence.
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mics Nnen 'hey were turned nom the road INTO
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raised heir rpns. the virtins sbrddryed CON,
vulsvey, the word was given to fire. and the
five men fell pierced with Rebel bullets Old
men Wood and Shelton We're shot in the head,
their brains scattc,cd upon he ground, and they
died without II struggle. The other three lived
only "a few minutes
MURDER OF A Roy OF TWELVE WARS
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Ioat ~ ya' 'iIe men zen, llot 10
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w ft. 90" nc 70" nave siio'
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NJ 10 ,eieu ''is iUce WIN ms hal"s;-
more fell. Poor little Billy was wounded in
both AIMS. lie ran to an officer clasped him
around the legs, and bcSoUght him to spare his
life. You have killed my old father and my
three brothers; you have shot ne in both arms;
! forgive you all this I can get well. Let me
go home to my mother and sisters" What a
heart Of adamant the man must have who could
disregard such an appeal Tie little boy was
dragged back to the place of execution; again
the terrible word fire " was given, and he fell
dead, eight balls having entered his body The
remaining three were murdered in the same
manner. Those in whom life was not entirely
extinct the heartless officers despatched with
their pistols.
THE Br,nra1
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