The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-05-29
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A Little Rock (Ark.) correspondent of the
New York Herald, writing NAV 10, afirms
that there ism safety. for Onion men in that
State, and cites the following catalogue Of
outrages in proof; er94ss tea
Only few days ago two men were hung
in Chicot county for their Union sentiments.
They we're taken from the field in which they
we're peacefully 81 work. and after Eve min
utes being allowed them to prepare for death,
hung from a limb of tree and left there.
The rebel desperadoes who committed the
deed, seeing that they had been discovered
by an old man and boy, committed another
double murder by hanging them also. The
four bodies remained hanging five DAYS be-
fore any person dared NEEDLE with them.
The Grand Jury recently in session in this
city had this case under investigation, but
failed to discover the guilty parties. Two
soldiers going from here to Arkadelphia In an
army ambulance were murdered on the road
and their bodies after several days found in
the woods. In Dallas county an old woman
had her breasts cut off because she would not
tell where her husband, who was charged
with being Union man, was, and from the
effects of her injuries died. A grandehild, q
boy eight years old, because he refused to
tell, had all his fingers and thumbs chopped
Off with an axe. In this same county and
Pope county several have had their feet
burned off: and so frequently has this been
done that the gang 1t is said to be the mem
bers OF a certain gang who do it-are called
feet burners. In Craighesd county q man
who had been in the Federal service
came and settled there. He was quiet
and well behaved, but his being a Yankee
was an act of felony in the eyes of his neigh.
bors, and so, notwithstanding his assertions
at ha Los boo thnv
spare his life, he was taken out 10 the woods
and hung. In addition to this two men have
recently been killed in Clark county, two 10
Washington county, and one in Prairie coun-
~, and all because they were Union men.
am told OF a man living in the same county
VINO joined the Federal service during the
war, and on coming back to rejoin his family
found his life threatened and TO save it had
to keep himself concealed in the woods. A
Union man telling me this circumstance,
says be and other Union men knew his place
of concealment, and managed both to fur
nish him provisions and stand sentres to give
alarm if occasion should require, the suppo-
sition being that he has left the country.
For agents OF the Freedmen's Bureau to be
shot at is no uncommon circumstance. |
have been told Of two happening recently,
the subjects of these murderous compliments
being Lieut.. Barton at Pine Bluff, and Lieut..
Taylor of Hanley. Not very long since Gen
Ord in an official order, called attention to
a gang of desperadoes in Woodruff county,
who, according to all accounts, have evinced
a capacity for any crime to be found in the
Newgate calendar The band is made up of
men belonging to various guerrilla companies
during the war, and they are still prosecuting
the same species of warfare on their own
hook, burning the houses of Union men.
stealing their stock, and where one is known
to have money, giving him the choice of hand
ing it over or be shot or hung.