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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 17 (search)
no mercy whatever, and wherever found are taken out and hung. Such was the fate of Benjamin Hide, a neighbor of hers, and a man highly respected in the community. A good Union man, named Beal, was hung, in Morgantown, simply because he remarked, that if he had his choice he would vote for the old Union. A prominent lawyer, named Trett, was carried from the State line, between Alabama and Tennessee, where he resided, taken to Tuscaloosa, and there died in prison of sheer starvation. William Thompson, an unflinching Union man, of Benton, Tennessee, near the State line, was taken out to the graveyard, blindfolded, and shot, and thrown into a hole with his clothes on. A number of days elapsed before his relatives were allowed to bury him decently. These are but a few of the inhuman and barbarous acts committed upon Union citizens. Mrs. Davis says that the people of the North know nothing of the persecutions the Union people of the South have to undergo; and adds, the truth of the su