Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
Knoxville, Saturday, Jan. 80, 1864.
Confederate Military Honor.

Whilst the heading of this article is II
contradiction in terms, we have selected it
as u suitable one under which to speak of
the outragcs and shocking barbarity Of the
rebels, whose villainy sticks out on all occa-
sions, In the spring Of 1862, General HAIR
DEE, gracelcss rascal, refused to let us
| through his lines AT Shclbyvilc, though we
| had pass from the Confederate Secretary
| of War, and an escort furnished by the
authorities at Richmond, He held us over
| ten days, and ordered us to be guarded in
close confinement In the fall Of the same
wear, General FORREST, sin-hardcncd ne
gro trader, and livery stable man Of Mem
| phs. refused to allow Governor JoHNsoN'S
family to come from Murircc.borough TO
| Nashville, and had them driven backwards
and forwards on the road to and from Tul-
| lahoma, although they had pass from the
Confederate Secretary Of War, and were
ordered out Of the Coniedcracy. Their
code of honor warrants subordinatcs in set
| ting aside the orders and DEGREES Of their
superior commanders. The dscourtcous
scoundrcls have not even the subordination
common among Il gang Of thieves.
General RosEcRANs, in command of the
| Cumberland, addressed a letter to General
JOSEPH f. JOHNSTON on the 10Th Of Fcbru-
AIRY, 1863, informing him that he could not
exchange flags Of truce any longer with
such men MS Generals BRAGG and WHEELER,
who had, in their meanness, allowed their
troops to sneak behind flag Of truce and
capture Federal troops who had allowed
their rebel troops to go into battle dressed
| in Federal uniform, and carrying the Fcde-
| raj flag; and he gave the General list of
| thirty eight Federal Surgeons robbed Of
their private property by the lawlcss mobs
under the command of BRAGG, and his true
| yoie-ltllow, WHEELER.
Under the sanction of this WHEELER, the
steamer Hastings at the head Of llarpeth
Shoals, in January, 1863, only thirty miles
| from Nashville loaded with 260 desperately
wounded Federal soldiers, was fired into
with muslctry and artillery, and forced her
to round to, when the rebel guerrillas,
drank and iniunated, rushed on board,
robbed and pundored the sick and dying,
ordered them all on shore in the mud, and
| in Il snow storm, and set fire to the boat
and destroyed her. Robbed Of their Ia
tons and Of their clothing, and thirty
miles from military post, night approach
| ing these suffering and dying men were
turned over for quarters to muddy corn
| field.
On the battlefield, in innumcrablc in
stances, they have robbed the Federal dead
and wounded Of their clothes, stripping
them to the skin, and dressed themselves
| in their clothes. In other instances they
have shot down Federal prisoners captured
/ by scouting parties, in order to frame an
excuse for robbing them of their clothes
4 The Federal troops are well clothed,
whether dead or alive, and the rebels, AS a
general thing have been naked, dirty and
lousy, as they have been mean, dcmoralizcd
and unprinciplcd.
Had we our wish, we would throw hell
wide open, and place all such bcast-lllc of
fccrs and men upon an inclined plane, at
an angle of forty-fivc degrees grease the
plane with hogs lard six inches thick, with
II wicket at the bottom. and send them. as
one stream of traitors, robbers and assas-
sins into the hottest part Of the Internal
regions.