Year: 1864

OUb anu hlAlcu. rom lAG DCSL lulCE-
nation I could get, the white soldiers
We're, 10 very considerable extent,
treated in the same way. One Of the
18th Tennessee on board-D. W. Har-
Tison-informs me that after the sur
render, he was below the bluff, and one
of the rebels presented a pistol TO
shoot him. He told him lie had sur
rendered, andrequested him not TO fire.
He spared him, and directed him
TO 90 up the bluffto the fort Harrison
asked him to 90 before him, or he
would be shot by others, but he told
him TO 60 along He started, and had
not proceeded far before hemet a rebel
who presented his pistol Harrison
begged him not TO fire, but paying no
attention to his request, he fired and
shot him through the shoulder, and
another shot him in the leg tie fell
and while he lay unable to move,
another came along and was about to
fire again, when Harrison told him he
was badly wounded twice and implored
him not to fire. He asked Harrison if
he had any money. He said he had a
little money and q watch The rebel
took from him his watch and ninety
dollars in money, and left him. Har-
ri5on is probably fatally wounded
Several such cases have been related to
me, and think, to great extent, the
whites and negroes were indiscrimi-
nately murdered The rebel Tennes-
scans have about the same bitterness
against TennesSeans in the Federal
army, as against the negroes. l was
told by a rebel officer that Gen. Forrest
shot one of his men and cut another
with his sabre who were shooting down
prisoners 1t may be So but he is re-
spOnsible for the conduct of his men,
and General Chalmers stated publicly
while on the Platte Valley, that though
he did not encourage or countenance
his men in shooting down negro cap
tives, yet that it-was right and justif-
able.


INCIDENTS OF TIE FIGHT.


The negro corporal, Jacob Wilson,
whom we picked up below Fort Pillow,
had narrow escape. He was down on
the river bank, and seeing that no
quarter was shown, stepped into the
water so that he lay partly under it. A
rebel coming along gRsked him what was
the matter; he said he was badly
wounded, and the rebel, after taking
from his pocket all the money he had
left him. 1t happened to be near by a
fat boat tied to the bank, and about
three o clock in the morning. When all
was quiet, Wilson crawled into it and
got three more wounded comrades also
in it, and cut loose. The boat foated
out into the channel, and we found it
ashore some miles below. The wounded
negro soldiers we have aboard feigned
themselves dead until we came along
Captain Young, Oath Missouri, Provost
Marshal at the fort, was captured, and
was out on his parole He was at the
boat, and while there the Lady Pike,
from St Louis, came up, with his wife
aboard. He was allowed to 20 into the
boat to see her, and then returned to
his captors. Major Bradford was also
captured, and at large on his parole
The rebel officers denOunce him for
breaking his parole, and say that during
Tuesday night he escaped 1t is be
lieyed that the rebels killed him, and
that the charge Of breaking his parole
is a mere pretence to conceal his
murder


Captain Lindsay, rebel officer, towhom
I am indebted for courteous attention,
admitted TO me that General Forrest
was slightly wounded, and had q horse
killed under him, but another rebel Off
Ger informed friend Of his who was on
the boat with Us, that General F. was
twice wounded, and badly, by the burst
ing of she'll


The rebels claim to have but only ten
killed and thirty wounded, but Captain
| Young who had been to their camp
says that they have two hospitals well
filed, and he thinks their killed and
wounded exceed ours


When l visited the fort, the guns had
all been taken away. The huts scat
tered around had been mostly burned
up. In one Of these were bodies Of col
ored soldiers partly burned, but wheth-
er or not by design | cannot state


Dr. Fitch, surgeon of the fort, was ia
ken prisoner, and through the influence
| of some rebel surgeon was released OF
his parole and came up with Us. He
confirms, from his own personal Ob5er-
vation, the butchery OF our soldiers by
the rebels He informed me that after
the fort was taken the soldiers randCwn
the bluff to the river, throwing away
their arms, holding up their hands, and
crying out that they surrendered, but
the rebels continued 10 fire on them
from the bluff without the least regard
10 their cries DR. Fitch says he saw
twenty white soldiers paraded in line
on the bank Of the river, and when in
line the rebels fired upon and killed all
but one, who ran to the river and hid
under log, and in that condition was
fred at a number Of times and wound
ed. lie says Major Bradford also ran
down to the river, and after he told
them he had surrendered more than
fifty shots were fred at him. lie then
Jumped into the river and swan out a
little ways and whole volleys were fred
at him there without hitting him. He
returned to the shore, and meeting, as
the Doctor supposes, some officer was
protected, but he heard frequent threats
from the rebels that they would Kill
him, and he believes that they have
killed him. 1t was q subject Of cOnsid-
cradle remark that Captain Young was
treated by the rebels with 80 much IA
yor-and IL WIS said that his brother,
who has been in the rebel army, kept
a grog shop at the fort, and was d rebel
sympathizer.


DI5GUsTISG TO4DYISM.


Two or three Federal band-box off
GERS on board the Platte Valley, one Of
them with his young bride, made them
selves conspicuous IN fawning around
the rebel officers. They brought Gen,
eral Chalmers and several subordinate
cut-throat looking officers on board the
Platte Valley, drank with them. intro
duced them TO their wives, and invited
them to dinner. They made room for
them at the ladies table, and they sat
down 70 dinner, but II happened either
by accident or from a just idea Of the
fitness OF things on tho part Of our high
spirited Captain that at that moment
the signal bell for moving was heard,
and the rebel officers, leaving their soup
untouched, skedaddled General Ch8l-
mers, soliloquising as be hurried past
your correspondent that he had learned
TO run as we'll as to fight II the con
versation preceding the dinner, Gener-
al Chalmers SAID that he did not coun-
tenance his soldiers in killing captive


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