Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-05-31
Outrages on Union Men in Ar
kansas.

~ kansas.
A Little Rock (Ark.) correspondent
of the New York Herald, writing May
10Th, afiirms thar there is no safety for
Union men in that State, and cites the
following catalogue Of outrages in proof
Only a few days ago two men were
hung in Chicot county for their Union
sentiments. They were taken from their
field in which they were peacefully at
work, and, after five minutes being allow
ed them to prepare for death, hung from
the 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 they committed an
other double murder by hanging them
also. The four bodies remained hanging
five days before any person dared NEEDLE
with them. The Grand Jury recently in
session in this city had this case under in
vestigation put failed to discover the gully
parties. Two soldiers going from here
to Arkadelphia in an army ambulance
we're 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
no, tell where her husband, who was char
ged with being Union man, was, and
from the effects Of her injuries died. A
grandchild, boy eight years Did, because
he refused to tell. had all his fingers and
thumbs chopped off with an ak. In this
same county and Pope county several
have had their feet burned off; and SO
frequently has this been done that the
gang-it is said to be the members Of
certain gang who do it--are called feet
burners In Craighead county 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
neighbors, and so, notwithstanding his as.
sertions thai he would leave the country
if they would spare his lie, he was taken
out into the woods and hung. In addition
to this two men have recently been killed
in Clark county. two in Washington county
and one in Prairie county, and all because
they were Union men. / am told of a
man living in the same county who joined
the Federal service during the war, and
on coming back TO join 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
his place of concealment and managed
both TO give him provisions ard stand
sentries TO give alarm if occasion should
require, the supposition being that he had
left the country. For agents of the Freed.
mems Bureau to be shot at is no uncom-
mon occurrence. have been told of two
happening recently, the subjects of these
murderous compliments being 1t. Taylor
at Hanley, and 1t. Barton at Pine Bluff
Not very long since General Ord, in al
official order called attention to gang o
desperadoes in Woodruff county, who, &C
cording 10 all accounts, have evinced ca
pacty for any crime TO be found in tn,
Ncwgate calender. The band is made vi
Of men belonging 10 various guerilla com
panies during the war, and they are still
prosecuting the same species Of warfar
on Their own hook, burning the houses Q
Union men, stealing their stock, and wher
one is known to have money, giving hin
the choice of handing it over or be sho
o. hung"