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The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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seven killed and twenty to thirty captured. Col. Folk, the Confederate officer in command, was taken prisoner. It can be proved that our men, after they were shot down and had surrendered, were in the most inhuman and barbarous manner beaten to death by the butt ends of Yankee muskets ! There are four living witnesses to this statement, one of whom escaped with life enough to tell the tale, bearing the savage bruises of his Yankees captors, received after he had surrendered.--The body of Lieut Dehart, which was found after the retreat of the enemy, also attests the truth of the allegation. He had been shot through the head, and as he fell to the ground his skull was shattered by a blow of a clubbed musket. These are cases which demand stern retribution at the hands of our Government. On last Monday week, a raiding party, comprising four companies of deserters and tories, under command of Col. Merck, entered the town of Morganton, at the head of the Western North Carolina Railro