The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-04-26

him be lad SURRENDERED, as1 rcgnested him
net e fro he spared hin. and directed
him & So ap the bluH Is the fart. llarrson
askei him 70 e. before him. o. be voalA e
saet ~ othtfs tut be ieia him % a. along.
lie started, ana hai ros proseclcl far beiare
be met rsbsl who pres plel bis pistol
Hauscn begged him not 10 Gre. lat paying
20 attention e lie request be Sired aui shot
BIN through the shoulder, and another shgl
him IN the lgg. lie fen, and while he lay
unable 70 move. another came along and
vas about 10 Gro again, when H,rrisoa loia
him be VAS badly wounded twice and In.
p.ered him not to Gre. lie asked Harrison
Il be had any money he said be had
little money aud watch. The rebel took
from him bis watch aud ninety dollars in
money. aud left him Harrison is probably
fatally wounded Several such cases have
been related to me. and think, TO great
extent, the whites and negroes were indis-
criminately murdered. The rebel Tonnes
scans have about the same bitterness against
Teunesseans in the Federal army. 4 against
the negroes, ! was told By rebel officer
that General Forrest sbo, one Of his men and
cut another with his sabre who were shoot
ing down prisoners. /, may be 10, but he
is responsible for the eondnet Of his men,
and General Chalmers stated publicly while
on the Platte Valley, that though he did not
encourage or coun,enancc his men in shoot
ing down negro captiyes, yet that Il was
right and justitable.
Il was stated by some of the rebel officers
that they had only about twenty Ave oolored
prisoners, aud they we're old servants Of
white officers, and that all Solored soldiers
were killed.. This believe to be true.
INCIDENTS on the noHT.
The negro corporal, Jacob Wilson, whom
We picked up below Fort Pillow. had mar
row escape. Ile was down on tie river bank,
and seeing that no quarter was shown, step
ped into the water 30 that he lay partly
under it.. A retel coming along asked him
what was the matter he said be was badly
wounded, and the rebel, after taking from
his pocket all the money be had, left him.
II happened to be near fiat boat tied to the
bank, and about three o'clock IN the morn
ing. When all was quiet, Wilson crawlyd
into it, and got three more wounded COM
rades also in il, and cut loose. The boat
fioated out into the channel, and we found
BIT ashore some miles below. The wounded
negro soldiers we have aboard feigned them
selves dead until we came along Captain
Young, Twenty fourth Missouri, Provost
Marshal at the fort, was captured, and was
out on his parole. lie was at the boat, and
while there the Lady PIKE, from *. Louis,
came up. with his wife aboard. He was
allowed to 60 into the boat to see hes aud
then return to his captors Major Bradford
was also captured. and at large on his pa
role. The officers denounce him for break
ing his parole, and say that during Tuesday
night he escaped II is believed that the
rebels killed him, and that the charge Of
breaking his parole was mere pretenee to
conceal bis murder.
Captain Lindsay, rebel officer, TO whom
am indebted for courteous attention, adj
mitted to me that General Forrest was
slightly wounded, and had horse killed
under him, but another rebel officer in
formed friend Of his who was on the boat
with us, that General +. was twice wounded,
and badly, by the bursting of shell
The rebels claim TO have only ten Killed
aid thirty wounded, but Captain Young,
who had been to their camp, says that they
have two hospitals well filled. and be thinks
their killed and wounded exceed ours.
When / visited the fort, the guns bad oil
been taken away. The huts scattered around
had been mostly burned up. In one of
these were bodies Of colored soldiers par
TALLY burned, but whether or not by design
cannot state.
Dr. Fitch, surgeon Of the fort, was taken
4 prisoner, but through the influence Of some
rebel surgeons was released ON his parole
and came up with us. Ife confirms by bis
own observation, the butehery Of our soldiers
by the rebels. Heinforms me that after the
fort was taken, the soldiers ran down the
bluff 10 the river, throwing away their guns,
holding up their hands, and crying cut that
1 they surrendered, but the rebels continued
to fire on them from the bluff without the
lie St regard to their cries. DR.. Fitch says
be saw twenty white soldiers paraded in line
on tAe bank Of the river, and when in line
the rebels fred upon and killed all but one,
who ran to the river and hid under log.
and in that condition was fred at number
\ Of times and wounded. lie says Major
! Bradford also ran dswn to the river, and,
4 after be told them he had surrendered, more
4 than fifty shots we're fired at him. He then
jumped into the river and swan out little
ways, and whole yolleys we're fired al him
there without hitting him. lie returned TO
I the shore, and meeting as the doctor sup
poses, some officer, was protected, but he
heard frequent threats from the rebels THAI
they would kin him. Il was subject Of
considerable remark that Captain Young
was treated by the rebels with 50 much favor
land it was said tina! bis brother, who has
been in the rebel army, kept greg shop at
the fort, was rebel sympatbiser.
DISGUSTING TUADYIEB.
Two or three federal band-box oficers
Mera On lizard Tie PLATE Xallep one Of