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t private property. His men were respectful to ladies, and not generally insulting to citizens. They seemed to be of that class to which we apply the term "sporting gentlemen." Although the men profess to be Kentuckians. I found that they had men from all the Southern States with them. A vast minority of them were Kentuckians. He at first refused to parole the citizen and Home Guard prisoners, denouncing them as guerrillas, and deserving death. Morgan himself severely misused Mr. Hastings after he captured him, sticking his spear in him in half a dozen places, from the effects of which he has not yet recovered. He afterwards begged his pardon for it. While the majority of the gang were as kind as could be expected, conversed freely with citizens without insulting them, treated the prisoners very properly, yet many were ruffians of the lowest cast, deserving to be hung as high as Haman. They (the ruffians) eared neither for feelings, person nor property — gloried in