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Pinckney (search for this): article 25
was uncertained that the remains of the uniforms, the buttons, &c., were those of Rebel regiments. This discovery excited much bitterness among our soldiers; especially in the South has been made to ring with charges of barbarity against our army. Dead bodies were also found lying in heaps, some with the hands and feet tied, and one poor fellow excited the commiseration of all who beheld him. His ankles and wrist a were fled, and his hands were clasped, as if in prayer when he died. Colonel Pinckney, of the Sixty-Sixth, humanely directed that the remains of these shamefully used and neglected soldiers should be carefully buried, a duty which our soldiers performed with circumspection. The charred remains were found in the Rebel Camp More. The rebels in their evacuation left a large amount of property behind, much of which consisted of provisions. The residents in the vicinity were prompt in endeavoring to secure as much of the latter as possible, by our soldiers interdicted