Year: 1867

OUTRAGESON UNION MEN NINARRANSAS.


A Little Rock (Ark.) correspondent of the New
York Herald. writing May 10, aiirms that there
is no safety for Union men in that State, and cites
the following catalogue Of outrages in proof


"Onlv a few days ago two men We're hung in
Chic0t county for their Union sentiments. They
we're taken from their field in which they were
peacefully at work, and, after five minutes being
allowed them to prepare for death, hung from
limb of a tree and left there. The rebel despera-
does who committed the deed, seeing that they
had been discovered by an old man aud boy, com
mitted another double murder by hanging them
also The four bodies remained hanging five days
before any person dared meddle with them The
Grand Jury recently in session ia this city had
tins case under investigation but failed TO discov-
er the guilty parties Two soldiers going from
here 70 Arkadelphia in an army ambulance were
murdered ON the road, aud their bodies after sew
eral days found In the woods, In Dallas county
an old woman had her breasts cut off because she
would not tell where her husband, who was charged
wdh being a Union man. was. and from the effects
Of her injuries died. a graudchild, boy eight
wears old, because he refused 10 tell, had all bis
fingers and thumbs chopped OF with an ak In
this same county and Pope county several have
had their feet burned off aud so frequently has
this been done that the gaug-t is said 10 be the
members of a certain gang who dc lt--are called
feet burners. In Craighead county man who
had been in the Federal service came and settled
there. lie was quiet and well-behayed, but his
being iankee was act OF felony in the eyes
Of his neighbors, and so, Notwithstanding his as
sertons that he would leave the country il they
would spare his life, he was taken out into the
woods aud 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 rei0in bis family found his life threatened,
and to save it had TO keep himself concealed in the
woods. A Union man telling me this circumstance,
says ho aud other Union men knew his place OF
conceament, and managed both to give him pro-
visions aud stand sentres 10 give alarm ii occasion
should require the suppositon being that he had
left the country. For agents of the Ereedmeni
Bureau to be shot at is no uncommon occurrence
| have been told Of two happening recently, the
subjects of these murderous compliments being 1t.
Barton at Pine Bluff, and 1t. Taylor at Hanley
Not very long since General Ord, in official
order called attention TO gang of desperadoes IT
Woodruff county whs, according 20 all accounts
have eyinoed capacity for any crime to be found
in the Newgate calendar The band is made uT
of men belonging TO various guerilla companies
during the war, and they are still prosecuting the
same species Of warfare on their own hook, burn
/ ing the houses of Union men, stealing their stock
| and where one is known TO have money giving
him the choice OF handing il over or be shot o.
hung