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The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankees in Southern Georgia
The Yankees in Southern Georgia.
--The Savannah News publishes an extract from a private letter dated Woodstock Mills, Georgia, June 2d, which says that some time since the Yankees made another raid at St. Mary's, where they desecrated all the Churches, particularly the Catholic Church.--They stole the chalice and destroyed everything they could lay their hands on. When they were asked by a lady if they were not ashamed of themselves for such outrages, they answered that they were rebel churches.
From the town they went to North River, a branch of the St. Mary's, and stole ten thousand fact of lumber from the La Grange Mill.
Since then they have visited the mill again and stole more lumber.
The Federal have visited St. Mary's three times since they evacuated it, and each time they carry off furniture or anything else they can lay their hands on. They allow the negroes to do as they please, and take anything they want.
At St. Mary's they destroyed a large number of Bibles belo
The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], The seizure of sugar and molasses. (search)
The seizure of sugar and molasses.
--Several merchants of Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia, have addressed a memorial to the Governors of their respective States, in regard to the seizure of sugar and molasses in Mississippi by the Confederate authorities.
The merchants represent that Brigadier and Inspector-General Slaughter has ordered the seizure of all the sugar and molasses — of which there are three or four thousand bogskeads of the former, and 2,500 to 3,000 barrels of the latter, between Vicksburg and Meridian — except such as belongs to residents of the State, thus making an us discrimination in favor of Mississippi; that their sugar and is thrown out in exposed places; that no receipts are gives or responsibility acknowledged for it; and that officials of the Government are, in some instances, disposing of it at a profit to themselves.
Under these circumstances, the memorialists ask the Governors of the States aforesaid to interfere he their behal