Delaware State journal and statesman., 1864-04-26

least 600 are beyond the teach Of even Rebel
vengeance.
lns blood Of 600 murdered mea and 100
manned cries for vengeance.
Case l. Wolford Cooksey, private, 18Th Ten
netsee Cavalry. This brave fellow has a terrible
wound in his thigh from bullet and three buck
shot. He had thrown down his gun and was
begging quarter when he was shot.
2. Adjt. NJ. l. Leming, shot in the side after
surrendering. This man is 30 low that he could
not give details.
3. d. W. Harrison. private, 18th Tennessee
Cavalry. Wounded in four places by gunshots.
While lying on the ground bleeding, Mr. Harri-
son called Rebel soldier TO him and begged a
drink Of water The Rebel cursed him, and took
from him his money $500 and his watch.
Tho first Rebel into whose hands he fell was
inclined to sate his life, hut he was shot within
y minute by others. Has wife and child near
Trenton, Tenn.
4. Jamea Calvin Goforth wounded in both
shoulders and five ribs broken after surrender
ing
d. Jos. NJ dreen, Co. A. 18th Tenn. Cav,
shot in back aud shoulder after surrendering.
6. J. II. Stout, 18th Tennessee, age only 10
years left les nmpuiated; cause, terrible wound,
crushing bone, Inflicted after surrCndering
z. Daniel Tyler, colorsd.
This is the man spoken of above as being
buried alive Ills eye was knocked out with II
carbine, he was shot in two places, and then
taken aud thrown alive into ditch with other
men, white and black, and some loose dirt thrown
over them. He says there was white man
thrown on him who was alive This negro ac
tually got out Of this living tomb by digging
with one hand OF this there are Witnesses.
g. Robert Hall (colOred) This man lay sick
of typhoid fever in the hospital The devils had
no respect for hospitals. They cut his head ter
ribly with saber, and cut off part of his right
hand, which was raised to protect his head from
the saber
9. Manuel Nichols (colored)
This poor fellow shot in the head with pistol
held within foot of him, but the ball failed to
enter the skull and was taken out by the sur
geon and shown to me. Notwithstanding this
and bad wosnd in the arm he iH about the hos,
pital and lively.
But these cases will suffice, though they CON
Voy very family to your mind the horrors Of
that massacre. Every man whose case have
mentioned was murdered 10 cold blood for hot
blood as the case may bel Men were burned
alive for the terrible oHeuse OF having black
SKINS and the body of one Lieutenant was found
partly burned. The Rebels threw the negroes in
piles, after stripping them of their boots and
clothing, If Of any value, aud burned them.
But why proceed further into these sickening
details Fort Pillow is utterly destroyed, not a
vestige remaining.
The question now arises, and is on every
tongue, what will the Government do about it
Unless vengeance, ample and speedy, follow this
savage slaughter OF U. $. soldiers the Govern
ment will have no reason to complain if We get
no more volunteers from the Rebel States, or any
black ones from any State 1t strikes all loyal
people that, if the Government asks men to fight
for the life of the nation, it is bound by all the
obligations OF honor and decency to see that they
are protected az prisoners of war.
But proclamations (Amntsty or otherWise)
will not protect them. Dire vengeance must fall
surely and quickly, or we may as well give up
fighting with negroes and loyal Southern men.
Some simple minded people, who know moth
ing about war, will inquire into the propi:ety Of
keeping few hundred men in such a place as
Union City, where they are liable at any moment
to be attacked by force of ten times their mum.
ber, aud where they are Of no earthly use il not
attacked. II place is worth foitifying at all,
it would appear worth while TO have enough men
to defend it.
Forrest is cleaning out Western Kentucky and
Tennessee very eifectually. lie is taking every
man aud boy between the ages of 8 and 40, aud
forcing them into his army, without SO much ae
''by your leave, Sir" Thus, while the Union
armies are being filled by slow volunteering, and
we are dispuling about draft, the Rebels are
lilling their ranks with men who ought 10 fight
on our side. \. II. NJ.