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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 202 (search)
They hang and burn folks.--A letter from a young lady at Evansville, Ind., dated May 5, contains a description of outrages committed by the Southern traitors.
She says: For the last few days our city has been literally filled with deserters from the Southern army, and they are the happiest men alive.
They are all for the Union, but had been forced into the Southern army.
There were five of them, who came from Memphis Friday week; they were in father's store, and told him how they were treated; went South with several boatloads of tobacco for the purpose of selling it; there were 30 men in all, I believe; they were taken from their boats, and had to choose between joining the Southern army or having all the hair shaved off their heads, having a number of lashes on their bare backs, and being put in prison for 80 days upon a diet of bread and water.
Five of the men were true to the Union--the five who told this story; the others (25) joined the army, but intend to escape.
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