Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-08-21

in The execution of these hellish outrages.-
Houses were burned and torn down. AL
kinds Of properly was destroyed or carried of
WOMAN or IS HUNG.
Old Mrs. Unus Riddle. aged about IS years
was whipped, hung and robbed Of consider
able amount of money. Many others were
treated with the same barbari,y. And the
men who did this were called soldiers The
daughters Of William Shelton, man Of wealth
and highly respectable, were requested by
|ome of the officers to sing and play for Them.
| they sang and played few national airs
| Keith learned Of it, and ordered the ladies to
be placed under arrest and sent to the guard
| house, where they remained all night.
Cd Mrs. Sallie Moore, 20 years OF age, was
whipped with hickory rods till the blood ran
n streams down her back 10 the ground; and
he perpetrators Os this were clothed 10 the
haoiliments of rebellion. and bore the name
Of soldiers!
INTERFEREScE OF GEN. DoNELsoN.
All the women and children OF the Union
~nen who were shot. and of those who escaped,
were ordered by General Alfred E. jackson,
headquarters at Jonesbnro, to be sent through
he lines by way of Knoxville. When the
drst of them arrived al this place, the officers |
applied to Gen. D IneIson (formerely speaker |
Of the House. of Representatives at NashvilIe) |
to know by which route they should be sent
from there, whether By Cumberland Gap or
Nashville. General DoDelson Immediately |
directed them TO be released and sent home,
'aying that such thing was unknown in civ
iized countries. They were then sent home,
Ind all the refugees met on the road were al
50 turned back.
On the 18th of February. 1863, squad of
odIers was sent TO conscript JSmes McCol-
um, OF Greene county, Tenn. very respec:a-
hle, industrious man, thirty or thirty-fve
years OF age. They found him feeding bis cat
tie. When he saw some of them he ran to
the back Of bis barn; others were posted be-
hind the barn. aud, without haiIing or atiemp-
ing TO arrest him, one of them shot him
through the neck, killing him instantly. His
three little chilcren, who saw it, ran to the
honse and told their mother; she came out
wringipg her hands in anguish, and screaming
with terror aud dismay.
The soldiers were sitting upon the fence
They laughed at her agony, and said they had
Only killed damned tory" The murdered
man was highly esteemed by his neighbor.,
and was firm Union man.
In April last, two rebel soldiers named In
gOle and Wood, went TO the house of Mrs.
Ruth Ann Rhea, living on the waters of Lick
Creek, Greene county, 10 conscript her SON.
Ihe old lady was partly deranged; she COM
nanded the soldiers TO leave her house, and l
raised stick to strike one OF them. lie told {
ler il she struck him, he would run her through
with his bayouet; she gave the blow and he l
shot her through lie breast.
In the same month, jesse Price, ar old
nan sixty years of age, two sons and two
lephews, were arrested in JOhnsoa county,
Tennessee, bordering on Virginia. by Colonel y
FUuke's cavalry, composed Of Tennessee and l
North Carolina men. They were taken TO {
Ash county. North Carolina, to be tried for I
Iisloyalty 10 jefferson Davis &. Co. The old t
nan had been previously arrested, taken to c
Knoxville, tried and acquitted
When the prisoners arrived at Ash county c
grcggery keeper proposed to treat Fouke's
men to eight gallons of brandy if they would o
lang the old man without trial. The bargain s
vas struck, and the five unfortunate men were :
lnng without further ceremony. The brandy :
vas furnished, and some of it drunk before the
rest a 'terward. /
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