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The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], Fifty Dollars reward (search)
as rich men, and so completely robbed them that they had to subsist on boiled corn for more than a week, when they got a day's rations of meat and flour from a Yankee soldier, who took pity on them. A brigade of troops was sent to the farm of A. Shook, a substantial citizen of seventy odd years, under the guidance of one of his negroes, and three regiments spent the day there. They took all the provisions, not leaving half a gallon of meal for the old man and the family of his son, O. S. Shook, who had been in the First Tennessee regiment in Virginia. They killed every hog, sheep, and calf that they could find, took five negro men — all he had — and three of them were armed, uniformed, and put in the Yankee service. They stole Mrs. S. Shook's watch and jewelry, and afterwards a guard was put over her room. Mrs. Shook went to town to draw rations. The Provost Marshal was disposed to be courteous, but said she must go to General Davis. She went to Davis's quarters, and h