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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
ment, established or assumed, unaccountably in command of a body of negroes, some forty-five, not one of whom was entitled or otherwise in the service of the United States, at Island No.10, sent eleven of these men to the house of a family named Beckman, living near the line in Tennessee, consisting of eight males and females, with instructions to bring from thence two contraband boys, peaceably if possible; but should resistance be offered, to kill every member of the family and to burn their came up shortly afterward, and fired several broadsides with the hope of causing the bodies of some of the victims who were thrown into the river to rise to the surface. As far as known, it succeeded only in one instance; one of the victims, a Mr. Beckman, 35 years of age, and father of the children, came to the surface and was taken to the shore. His hands and feet were tied together, a deep gash in his back, apparently made by an axe, and that portion of his forehead immediately above his l