The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1863-04-28
FROM THE 18th INFANTRY.
An Internal Outrage on Michigan
Soldiers.

TThe following litter gives fair sample oi
the treatment which the brave soldiers OF tho,
Peninsular State receive from the Niger wor-
shipping, bastard Kentucky chivalry, whose
homes and property they have gore so Tar to
defend. II such things are permitted to con-
tinue, severe retibution will ere long be
visited upon the heads Of the guilty parties
Michigan soldiers are not thus to be outraged
and insutcd thus with-impuuity, in Kentucky
or anywhere lse.-ED.
Special Corr of the Advertiser and Tribune.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, April Is, 1868.
On The morning Of the l2lh we were or.
dered to have three days cooked rations in
our haversacks, aud be ready to strike tents at
o AN. At the bugle's sound every tent
fell, aud in few moments wo were in line.
We marched to the Lebanon Depot, where
we were greeted by the brislling bayone's OF
SO, cral companies of the l6Lh Kentucky in
fantry. AS was their custom, they demanded
the negroes who were Employed as servants
in the regiment, TO be given up. Col. Doo-
little received " damning +" from Gen. Man
son, Commanding that post) The Colonel
told him plainly that the negroes who had
been employed as servants by the officers OF
his regiment should not be given up. BY
order of Gen. Manson, tho remainder Of the
10Th Kentucky regiment was drawn up on
our right with fixed bayonets and loaded
pieces. We were in close column by compa'
MES, facing the train, aud the 22i Michigan
was Just back Of US in the same order, only
they were faced to our right. Both regiments
had their arms stacked, and werc reslli:g
L. L. hasp Ha1 Mar.
son ordered the train TO be detained. In the
meantime messengers were sent TO several
Kentucky regiments who were near by, and
u cavalry regiment or two were said TO be
drawn up in line a short distance from US; also,
battery was planted to rake us in case We
attempted to take the cars. An order was
dispatched to the Colonel Of the 10th New
York, which, by-the- by, is brigaded with the
ID, 9Th and 18th Michigan regiments, TO come
down aud support the 10th kentucky. The
Colonel replied that his regiment had some
policing TO do, aud that lis men could not be
persuaded to fire on Michigan troops. The
whole b.igado was said TO have been ut the
service of our Colonel.
In the meantime Burnside was telegraphed
to. What bis response was we know not
and cold until the next day about one p. NJ,
we were permitted to get aboard the cars
After we were on boar Gen. Manson ordered
all the negroes to como out. A hollow square
was formed of some of the 18th boys with
bayonets fxsd. The negroes being placed
within this square, a general inspection en-
sued, over which General Manson presided
with native dignity. The result Of the inspec
ton, as far as we could learn, was that al. the
negroes, save one, WHO had come with some
of the mule drivers, went with US, About
p. NJ. the whistle blew and we moved off
aiicr being detained about thirty hours at ar
expense of one hundred dollars per hour fo
the use OF the train.
We were so tightly packed in stock car
that there was scarcely room for us 10 sit oil
our kpapsacks. The tops of the cars " ere als'
covered with the soldiers. The country eve
which we passed during daylight, was for th'
most pant good. Some Of It, however, wa
rather broken so that we had 10 run through
deep cuts. The scenery along the road from
Lebanon to Camp Rousseau, distance 0
thirty seven miles, is truly beautiful.
Soon after leaving Camp Rousseau, wher
the Lebanon Railroad forms junction will
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, it be
cana dark. About three A. NJ, wo got int
Bowling Green, and lay there until night, c
nine a. NJ. Bowling Green must have bee
fine looking little place before any oft wa
burned by the rebels. The engine house
{ which was burnt by them, has been rebuilt
We arrived at Nashville about sundown,
{ the midst of n rain storm. We were run o
{ 90 side track, some distance from town, wher
we remained in the cars until about midnigh
, Then we ran ip, and after marching au
counter marching In the rain for some tim
, we were qsartered in large unfinished built
!. ing, which is now used as barracks. Tf
} building, which covers an area of nearly a
q acre, aud is six stories high, was built by 10
/ lcoffer, and was intended for a hotel.
Vegetation here is in a forward state, con
h pared with Michigan, at this season of Il
!. year. The forest trees are quite green, at
9 fruit trees are in full bloom. Z. IL. w.