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The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Rumored Evacuation of Newbern, N. C. (search)
n a way to be relieved of the unjust odium heaped upon them by popular opinion! We apprehend that the South, while confessing its enormous sin in this respect, is not properly repentant; but is obdurately bent on pursuing it further. They have lately been doing horrible deeds amongst numbers of these Union soldiers, who came amongst them with the best intentions, and with hearts overflowing with the milk of human kindness! For witness, behold Ocean Pond, where one savage Indian named Finegan "did" a great many of them; Paducah, Columbus and Fort Pillow, where one no less ferocious man, of course a Barbarian, as he is a son of a Forrest, brutally did ahead a great deal of Yankee and some African blood; and furthermore at Shreveport and divers other places in Louisiana, and lastly at Plymouth, in North Carolina, the lives of these exemplary Union soldiers were cruelly taken in great numbers, and their released souls sent to give what society and consolation they may to the manes