The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-11-15

| day evening near the Apponnattox.
THE CAREER OF A FEDERAL MoSsTFR-ArcorSrs
FROM A FEDERAL SOURCE.
The Yankees cannot he altogether silent about
| the brutalities Of their commanders in what are
known as subjugated" departments. They have
a fiend in Tennessee, named General E. A. Paine,
whose deeds there and in Kentucky have been OF
the most horrible cruelty. The Nashville (Tennes-
see Dispatch, loyal" Union paper, publishes
some facts with which II is furnished which show
the horrible situation of - subjusated land 1t
says:
From December, 1862, to March April, lsG {,
during the bloody reign Of BrIgadier- General T.. A.
Paine at Gallatn Tennessee those who did not wit
ness the barbarous deeds committed, and the Wholesale
robbery of private property, Will scarcely believe u-
man nature so corrupt when the stubborn facts
revealed and made known to the world. The writer
does not know how where to begin TO make known
the many base and vile acts of this little despot as
he has been recently styled By the Hon. Bale Pey
ton, at Nashville From the beginning of this mans
reign at Galati, his cruelty and baIbarity to men,
wcmen and children has no precedent or parallel in
history. His coarse and vulgar abuse of them
revolving TO any person claiming to be gentleman.
His habit TO have ladies of the highest respecta-
bility arrested and brought into his presence and
such profanity and language as were uttered by him
TO them would not do To be published respectG-
BILE newspaper. The writer will proceed TO detail
some OF the deeds land only few of the many
perpetrated by this monster in human shape:
There was Il lady OF respectability, who lived in
Gallatn, who had little daughter to die. Her
house had been taken from her and occupied, and
she was staying with friend ut the time she made
application TO General Paine, through friends 10
be permitted to carry the remains OF her child to
Hartsvllle for interment place held sacred by her
the family battle-ground. This was most posi-
lively denied and refused her; and General z line
sent message to her to send for her damned
rebel husband,'' then in the rebel army, TO come
and take II and bury it, She forced 10 have it
buried at Galatin, and was refused the privilege OF
attending her little daughters burial, not half
mile distant.
a gentleman who lost his wife in Gallatin was re-
fused the privilege of attending her burial not u
quarter OF milo from his residence; and the g1ave-
yard Is within the lines of the post. There are
many persons III Gallatin who can testify these
facts.
The property of the peoplA was takon-horses,
mules cows, sheep, hogs, ptovender OF all kinds,
household and kitchen furIiture.
During General Paines stay at Gallatin it WAS
not unirequen!ly the case that squad of soldiers
to take prisoner out OF Jail and 90 on
with him, but return without him. This was con-
tinued ior some months. Perhaps the prs,ner or
prisoners carried of were strangers to the citizens Of
Galiatin; but should an investigation be had the
fate OF those men might be asceVtained
The longer General Paine continued at the post
the more bloody he became and finally he publicly
bJaset OF having rebel soldiers ana pTlyate citizens,
who Were prisoners, shot. The .peJpie became ter
rihed, and were afraid to oppose lin III anything he
thought proper to DO. Such a reign OF terror as
never been witnessed III this or any other h2e--
some few persons proposed to 60 TO Nashville 10 see
General Rcsseau upon the subject OF their grew
ances; but whenever this was found ont by tenersI
Paine they were sought out victims OF bis YEN
gsance, and were threatened with severe punish
ment. I is course was kept up until the people
were afraid to InuTmur complain ut any act he
thought proper to commit, or any order no lsSuets
lie said occasion to substantial and re-
spectacle citizen OF Sumner county Ia Union man,
who complained OF his taking of his property, that
IL General Rosseau dared to undo what he had done
he would have him removed.
The writer is familiar with the cases of several
rebel soldiers who captured prisoners OF war,
OF them held tor weeks and others only for II
short time, and then shot iii the most brutal man
ner by order Of General Paine, without even the
farce OF trial, and their bodies LETT torOt, the clt
fearing 10 bury them lest similar fate should
oyertal1r them These rebels, thus summaTiiy ex-
eeuted, may havt been bad men, but having been
taken and held prisoners, they Were certainly ell
titled 10 the toruaity OF a trial.
The case oi Il boy, named Lafayette Hughes, ff-
teen years VI age, charged with being with some
gullrts who Diirnt bridge across Goose creek, at
MaGden's mill, between HIrtsvllle and Carthage,
deserves special mention The bridge was burned
i'll the day time. Mr. Madden, the owner of the
mill, was present, and used every means he could
to prevent them from burning II If this little boy
had ha6 the benefit of the TRIAL ne could have
proved by Nh. Madden that he was not PRESENT On
the occasion. But, Perhaps, sClne negro reported
that he was present, and this Was sufficient with Ge-
neral Paine.
The boy was taken prisoner, carried some ten
miles, and Near Nj. b ) Martins, the uallatn
and ltartsyille pike, taken off short distance from
the road, and five Six MIME balls shot through
his fIal body (tOr he bat n feeble bow ana II
was. left unbured. youth, named Fleming San
dels, aged seventeen years, who lived Hedf Harts-
vile, ana whose father hud mother both dead,
arrested, taken GdllaIIu and confined IN i1il
ior some weeks. He was then tak,n out some iour
or hive miles from town near TO NJ. Thomas Barry r
house, shot by the soldiers, and left unbtiried. -
The persons above mentioned were all killed with
out any trial or investigation whatever.
The case OF Alfred Dalton, who was murdered
near tarsville i'll February, 1864, healt-rending
indeed. lie had belonged to the Second Tennessee
lrebell regiment, originally commanded by Colonel
bate. lie came home III the fail Of 1868; and but a
short time before he was shot went to Nashville and
look the amnesty oath, ana had the same Ill hrs
hind ut the time General Paine ordered him out OF
the road TO be shot lie believed that under the.
proclamation of the President, he had forgiveness
i0r past offences as soldier, and conducting
hlnSelt as quiet citizen. The particulars OF his
case ale these: Mrs. Vance had been killed the
night before IN an attack upon her husband, joseph
Vance, Il worthy man. The perpetrators of tins
lUul deed were unknown, and 10 this day
Ioung Dalton stayed at hIs fathers house the Ii ght
Oh which Mrs. Vance was murdered and silent in
the same. bed with Captain NJ artin, who, few week
pTevous had been pilot Tor General Paine on /.
trlp 10 jackson county.
Captain Martin was q man in whom General
fallle had the utmost confidence the writer Is in
formed. LII Dalton could have had a tlial Martin
would have testified TO he fact that young Dalton
slept With HIM that night, thus establishing ms IL
hocoilce OF any participation III the death OF Mrs
Vance General Paine arrived in uartsy1ila on
sunday evening, the day after the killing of Mrs
Vance lie ordered his orderly sergeant 10 accom-
pany Mr q. ID. Read, the brother-in-law OF Dalton
10 the house OF Daton's father and request Young
Dalton 10 meet him near Mi Vsnep's housa 4 n,.
lleSSage was delivered TO Young Dalton and h,.
promptly obeyed, accompanied bv his father and
met General Paine az tha head Of lis command M
soon aS ueueraI falne saw him, he ordered Iile OF
soldiers to take him off aid shoot him Young
Dalton was taken By surprise at this a1houncn-
lneht and asLN Tor the charge against him: but
none was given General PANE Iaved and rEyor.
that he should die.
Inc 1hther, an aged man of more than sixty win
tel5, wrth tears and lamentations inde,er1habia h
sought them not 10 kid his son TO spare his ht ana
give nun tflal that he knew that he was an nno-
cent eoy General Paine replied You o id
son ol D., II you say another word Il have Won
snol mere with yoNr G. id son. The f.the,. ia
as respectable citizen as lives in the county and
was ior many years an acting justice of the peace
tNolihilS awaited ) the young Was led off from
the presence OF General Paine and his father short
distance. The old man was engaged i'm e,rnest en-
treaty with General Paine when the rYst gun was
Aeaid 1he shot took effect in his leo and ,ba
young man screamed WHch was distinctly ha,r5 10
MS lather Tho second shot took effect in he breaaf
ana The third III the head, when the sares m ,Y .
cedSeu III death NothIng could be heard but III.
involuntary Lamentations OF the iilther he himself
perhaps UNCONSCIOUS Gf sucit lamentations Tor his
llt had already been Threatened for them
0eheral PANE. during the bloody process was ra-
wing ana cursing that aged ana laeerated parent -
~ ooes s'en that any man with a heart less hard
tial ad.ipint would have been moved but not A.
that o. B.lgadlei-General F.. ~ Paine OF Ilnnois
On nay God, who can adequately describe such a
scene I! W hal pen can portray this awful t,a9rdy
witnessed by that aged and broken hearted man
and then; kneeling beside the mangled corpse OF a
child, Just lew moments before III flll ylsor and
health, TO hear the gr0ans and the sobs l., ss the
wretched countenance OF the venetable size over
the fav0Tlte child a corpse, under such oiroum.
stances! Nine cannot, anu shall cease 10 at