The National tribune., 1893-03-02

been for the information received in regard to
the country from two simple minded Union
men whom they urged to accompany them,
and in regard to these two men one of the
scouters composed the following verse:
"When Bozen and his 10 the mountains did go,
For pilots they pressed Harris Whaey and J0e
They killed Isaac Yonce and threatened his wife,
And whipped his little boy for carrying a k nife
And IT'S hard times
In March. 1864. Bozen and his men made
another trip to the Limestone Cove, on which
occasion they captured Robert Doudel at his
own house. He was taken to the residence Of
James Bell, where the rebels hung him up
three times to make him tell where James Bell
and Samuel Smith were concealed. Being alto
gether ignorant in regard TO these two men he
was of course entirely unable to mpart to his cap.
tors the required information. They retained
him in custody all night. Before daylight the
next morning three more men were captured and
brought in by party Of these murderers. who
had been prowing about the peighborhood act
lively hunting for more victims. The names
of the poor men who unluckily fell into their
hands this occasion were John Campbell,
John Fry and Eli Fry.
This gang of murderers tied their prisoners
together and made them run before their
horses through creeks and mudholes for two
miles, and then hating them deliberately shot
three Of them who were tied together at the
tune, anu WHlle LHey were QOlng LDlS Inc
fourth man broke loose and ran.
But the poor fellow was soon ovcrtaken by
the rebels. who gave him torrible beating.
His hands were tied behind his back, and he
was placed in a standing position against
tree. Then one of the men stuck bayonet
through his neck and pinioned him to the tree
and one of the other wretches shot him. They
then stabbed the dead bodies of all four of their
victims full Of holes with their bayonets and
beat ont the brains of one.
The men were murdered in the evening and
remained where they had been killed during
the whole of the following night. When few
citizens assembled on the next day to cOnsign
their bodies to the grave they found that the
hogs had mangled and torn them to such an
extent that it was a very hard task to distin-
guish them apart. The bodies had frozen very
hard during the night, which probably pre-.
vented the hogs from destroying them en-.
tirely.
This was the way that the Union men Of
East Tennessee were treated by rebels who
came from the State of Virginia to take the
lives of their fellow-men just because they
would not aid and assist them. When these
infamous fellows from Virginia would come
into East Tennessee vengeance could be seen
in their countenances; and when they came
into the County of Carter where they knew
that public sentiment for the success of the
Union cause was in the ascendant among a
large majority Of the people, they went forth
in the pursuit of blood with the same delibera.
tiOn which characterizes the ravenous wild
beasts of the forest when they engage in the
chase after their hapless victims
The crimes which these fcnds perpetrated
upon the innocent Union men Of Carter County
were eminently sufficient to fix upon them the
curse OF the Almighty while they live upon
the earth, and forever blast their hopes of
future happiness in the world to come.