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The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], The Dispatch. (search)
Correspondence between General Sherman and General Hampton.
Hdq'rs Military Division of the Mississippi, In the Field, February 24, 1865. Lieutenant-General Wade Hampton, Commanding Cavalry Forces, C. S. A.:
General: It is officially reported to me that our foraging parties are murdered after capture, and labelled, "Lieutenant-General Wade Hampton, Commanding Cavalry Forces, C. S. A.:
General: It is officially reported to me that our foraging parties are murdered after capture, and labelled, "Death to all Foragers."One instance of a lieutenant and seven men, near Chesterville, and another of twenty, "near a ravine, eighty rods from the main road," about three miles from Feasterville.
I have ordered a similar number of prisoners in our hands to be disposed of in like manner.
I hold about one thousand prisoners capt nonymous with you — you will let me hear of it, in order that I may know what action to take in the matter.
In the meantime, I shall hold fifty-six of your men as hostages for those whom you have ordered to be executed. I am yours, etc., Wade Hampton, Lieutenant-General. Official: John M. Otey, Assistant Adjutant General.