The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-05-24
0utrages on Union Men In Arkan.
SaS.

"A Ii tie Rock Ark. correspondent
of the New York Herald, writing May
10, af1irms that there is no safety for
Union men III that State, and cites the
following catalogue of outrages in
proof:
Only n few days ago two men were
hung in Chicot county for their Union
sentiments. They were taken from
the field III which they were peaceful
ly at work, and. after five minutes be-
ing allowed them to prepare for death,
hung from 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 before any person dared NEEDLE
with them. The Grand Jury recent
ly in session in this city had this
case under investigation, but failed to
discover the guilty parties. Two sold
iers going from here to Arkadelphia
in an ambulance were murdered on
the road, and their bodies after sever
al DAYS found III the woods. In Dali
las 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 grandchild, boy eight
years old, because he refused to tell,
had all his fingers and thumbs chop
} ped off with an ak. In this same
S county and Pope county several have
+ had their feet burned off; and so fire.
< quently has this been done that the
| gang it is said to be the members Of
= Il certain gang who do it-are called
t feet burners In Craighead count
i Il man who had been III the Fedora
= service came and settled there. Hewas
] quiet and well-bebayed, but his being
t a Yankee was an act of felony il tn,
F.. eyes of his neighbors, and SO, notwith
n standing his assertions that he woulC
0 leave the country if they would spare
@ his life, he was taken out into thu
e woods and hung. In addition to thi
e two men have recently been killed il
S Clark county, two in Washington
II county and one in Prairie county, ant
If all because they were Union men.
y am told of a man living in the sam
d county who joined the Federal servie
" during the war, and on coming bacl
4 to rejoin his family found his lif
IA threatened, and to save it had to kee
e himself concealed in the woods.
Union man telling me this circum
q stance, says he and other Union me
Is knew his place of concealment, an
4 managed both to furnish him wit
n, provisions and to give the alarr
~ if occasion should require, the suppc
in sitiOn being that he had left the couI
at try. For agents of the Freedmen
lie Bureau to be shot at is no uncommo
ig occurrence. have been told of tw
er happening recently, the subjects {
IN these murderous compliments bein
iii Lieut.. Barton at Pine Bluff, and Lieu
be Taylor at Hanley Not very Ion
n since General Ord, in an official orde
re-. called attention TO a gang of desperi
II does in Woodruff county, who, accort
ry ing to all accounts, have eyinced a CT
n pacity for any crime to be found
ed the Newgate calendar. The band
he made up of men belonging to warrior
# guerrilla companies during the wa
ne and they are still prosecuting Il
lg, same species of warfare on their oV
20 hook, burning the houses of UniC
eft men, stealing their stock, and whe
n one is known to have money, givir
- him the choice of handing it over
be shot or hung"