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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 1: effect of the battle of Bull's Run.--reorganization of the Army of the Potomac.--Congress, and the council of the conspirators.--East Tennessee. (search)
Colonel Wood in a letter to Benjamin, Nov. 20, 1861. in which he declared that the sentiment of the inhabitants in East Tennessee was hostile to the Confederate government, and that the people were slaves to Andrew Johnson and Horace Maynard. To release the prisoners, he said, is ruinous. To convict them before a court is next to an impossibility. The bridge-burners and spies ought to be tried at once. This letter excited the brutal instincts of Benjamin, and he wrote back instantly Nov. 25. from Richmond, saying, All such as can be identified in having been engaged in bridge-burning, are to be tried summarily by drum-head court-martial, and, if found guilty, executed on the spot by hanging. It would be well to leave their bodies hanging in the vicinity of the burned bridges. He ordered the seizure of all arms that were concentrated by these traitors, and said, In no case is one of the men, known to have been up in arms against the government, to be released on any pledge or