Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1864-07-21
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IMP0RTANl LETTER FR0m GENQ
ERAL SHERMAN, "a
Military Instructions for Georgia and
Tennessee.

Ii. QRs Nm. DIV. OF THE MIsS.,l
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70 BIC SLsASTxy Ca. Iaps Il, lS6lA,
Gen. BarJriage. Com'ag DirisioH of Ly.
t;ExER,L-The. recent raid of Morgan,
themselves Confederate partisans or
guerilas, calls foT determined action on
your part.
Even on the Southern State Rights"
theory. Kentucky has not seccde,l. Her
people by their vote anil theirsp ctions,
have adhered to their allegiance to the
National Government, and the South
would now cocrcc her out of our Union
and into theirs. by the very dogma of
Coercion" upon which so much stress
was laid at the outset of the war, and
which carried into rebellion the people Of
the Middle or, Border slave States .a
But politics aside, these acts of the So
called partisan or guerillas, are nothing bgi
simple rnurier, horse stealing. arson, anb'
other mell-deiued crimes. which do not
sound as well under their true name. as
more agreeable ones Of warlike meaning
Now. before starting on this campaign.
/ foresaw it, as you remember, that this
very case would arise, and asked Gov
Bramlette to at once organize in each
county a small trustworthy band, under
the sheritfs, and at one dash arrest every
man in the community who was dan
Serous TO il; and also every fellow hanging
about the towns. villages and cross roads
who had no honest calling. the materials
ont of which gperillas are made. up; but
this sweeping exhibition Of power, doubt
less seemed ITO the Governors rather
arbitrary hia aia1 ~ .9 s4arolisf .roii
The fact Is, IN our. count " 1psrgonal
liberty has been so weil secured that
public safety is lost sight of in our laws
and institutions, AMI the fact IS, we are
thrown back leo years in civihz alton, law
and everything else, AMI will 60 right
straight to anarchy and the devil, if some
body don't arrest our downward progress. .
We, the military. must DO it, aud we
have dght and Law on our side. All
governments and communities have a right
10 guard against Real and. even supposed
danger Ilie whole people OF Kentucky
must not be kept iii a state of suspense
and real danger, lest few innocent men
should Do wroDefEl g.aceuSed. h 4
LIST. You may order all your Post and
District Commanders that guerillas are
not soldiers, but wild beasts, unknown to
the usages of war. To be recognized a
soldiers. they must be enlisted, enrolled,
Differed, uniformed, armed and equipped.
by recognized belligerent power, and
must, if detailed from main army, be Of
sufficient strength with written orders
from some army commander, 10 do some
military thing. OF course we have recog-
nized the Confederate Government as a
belligerent power, but deny heir right to
our lands, territories, rivers, coasts, and
nationality admitting the right to rebel
and move to some other country, where
laws and customs are more in accordance,
with their own ideas and prejudices.
81. The civil power being insufficient
to protect life and property &c neressitate
&C. to prevent anarchy, (which nature
abhors." the military steps in, and is
rightful, Constitutional and lawful. mU n.
der this law everybody can be made to
''stay at home and mind his or her own
business, and if they wont do that, can
be sent away where they will not kept heir
honest neighbors in fesr CT danger, robbery
and insult.
81. your Military Commanders, Provost
Msrshals. and other agents, may arrest all
males and females who have encouraged
or harbored guerillas and robbers. and you
may cause them to be collected in Louis
vile, and when you have enough-say
three or four hundred-I Will cause them
to be sent down the Mississippi, through
their guerilla gauntlet. and by sailing
ship send them to land where they NAV
take their negroes and make colony.
with laws and future OF their own. II
they won't live in peace in such garden
as Kentucky, why we will send them to
another If not better land; and surely
this would be kindness to them, and a
Gods blessing to Kentucky.
Il wish you to be careful that no
personalities are mixed up in this, nor
does full and generous Glove Of country"
..'of the South of their State or country,
form cause of Punishment, but that
devilish spirit which will not be satisfied,
and that makes war the pretext of murder,
arson, theft in all its grades. perjury, and
all the crimes of human nature.
My own preference was, and is, that the
civil authorities in Kentucky would and
could do this in that State; but if they
will not, or cannot, then we must, for ii
must be done. There must be an ''end to
Strife" and the honest, industrious people
of Kentucky, and the whole world, will be
benefited and rejoiced at the conclusion,
however arrived at.
1 use no concealment in saying shat /
do not object to men or won en- having
what they call '.Southern feeling, if
confined to love of country, aud Of peace,
homer and security, and even little
family pride, but these become "crimes"
when enlarged to mean love of murder. of
war. desolation. famine. and all the horrid
attendants of anarchy.
Il am, with respect, your friend,
tSignedI w. L. SHERMAN,
Major ffpneral