The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-11-11

broke open all the drawers to the bu- reaus. the secretary. sideboard. wardrobe and trunks in the house, and rified them of their contents, consisting of valuable clothing, silverware. silver plate, Jewelry, gold watch and chain, etc.
 These squads came in large numbers and pillaged the house thoroughly. They also broke open the law office of said Malone. and destroyed his safe and dam aged his books. A part of this brigade went to the plantation of the said Ma lone and quartered in the negro huts for weeks, debauching the females and roam ing over the surrounding country with the males to plunder and pillage. A mob of soldiers burst open the doors of Sam uel Tanner, Jr., and plundered them of their contents, consisting of sugar, coffee, boots and shoes, leather and other mer- chandise.
 Very soon after the command entered the town a party of soldiers broke into the silversmith shop and jewelry store owned by D. Fl. Friend and plundered it of it's contents and Yaluables to the amount of about $3000 Several soldiers came to the home of Mrs. Charlotte Hine and plundered it of all the sugar, coffee and preserves and the like they could find. Before leaving they destroyed or carried off all the pictures and ornaments they could lay their hands on
 A mob of soldiers filled the house of J. A. Cox, broke open his iron safe, and destroyed and carried off all papers of value, splundering the house thoroughly, carrying off the clothes of his wife and children. Some soldiers broke into the brick store of P. Tanner & Sons. and de- stroyed or carried off nearly the entire stock of goods contained there, and broke open the safe and took about 5000 in ,a.<a T l.la ty of soldiers, at the order of Captain Elgarton, broke into an office. through the doors and windows, and plundered 1t of it's contents, consisting of bedding, fur niture and wearing apparel. Lieutenant Berwick was also with the party. This officer was on the ground
 The law office of William Richardson, which was in another part of the town, was rified completely of many valuable papers, consisting of bonds. bills, or notes of land completely lost or de- stroyed
 Behaved Coarsely.
 The house of J. H. Jones was entered by Colonel Michalotzy of the Twenty fourth Illinois Volunteers. who behaved coarsely and rudely to the ladies of the family. He then quartered two compa- nies of infantry in the house. About an hour after Captain Edgarton quartercd his artillery companies in the parlors and these companies plundered the house of all provisions and clothing they could lay their hands on and spoiled the fur niture and carpets maliciously and with out shadow of reason; spelling the par Tor carpets by cutting bacon on them. and the piano by chopping joints on it with an axe the beds by sleeping in them with their muddy boots on. The library of the house was destroyed and the locks of tlie bureaus, secretaries and wardrobes were all forced and their contents pillaged. The family plate was carried off, but some of the pieces have been recovered.
 The store of George R. Peck was en- tered by a large crowd of soldiers and stripped of its contents and the Iron safe broken open and it's contents plundered of $94O and M000 of notes
 John Turrentine's store was broken into by a party of soldiers on that day and an iron safe cut open belonging to the store and about s50OO was of notes of land taken or destroyed These men destroyed about $2O0 worth of books found in the store consisting of law books religious books and reading books generally.
 The above specifications are all enumer- ated in the general order. but there was much other damage inflicted on the peo- pie of the town, these. the subsequent of the fair grounds. court house and stores, and the frequent pillaging of the people during the war has caused Athens, Ala, to be called the "Iphogenia of the south''
 The second charge against Turchin was that he did not pay tavern keeper, J. B. Davidson, his board bill. though he staid with him 8 week about the 7th of May, 1862, and that he did not try to pre- vent the pillaging and other misconduct described above"
 The third charge was "disobedience of orders" The headquarters of the Army of the Ohio had issued order No IS. which read: Peaceful citizens are not to be molested in their persons or property, and any wrongs to either are to be promptly corrected and the offenders brought to punishment"
 Compensation Required.
 The same order also said: "If the neces-