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The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], From the Trans-Mississippi. (search)
Charged with treason. --John H Marr, sutler of the 14th Tennessee regiment, was arrested in this city yesterday and committed to Castle Thunder on the charge of treason. His offence consists in ingratiating himself into the good graces of a citizen of Hanover, at which place he remained for over two months. When Sheridan's raiders appeared in the neighborhood, he forced his host to take to the woods for safety, and then assumed entire control of the place, entertaining the Yankees in fine style, and piloting them about various parts of the county. Whilst the owner of the place at which he was sojourning was in the woods a Yankee guard was stationed close by with instructions to shoot him should he show himself, and but for the faithfulness of one of his servants, who watched the opportunity to carry him something to eat, he would surely have starved to death. A forged will was drawn up by Marr, in which the whole of his host's property was made over to himself, and it was on t
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
t of such restoration with the utmost joy. There are none such now. There are no Union men in the South, except such as are downright traitors, caring little for either side, but always ready to unite with that which pays best. It is almost impossible to find one man out of one hundred thousand who does not believe with the great apostle of negro perfectibility, that the Union is in very truth a "covenant with hell." Lincoln has produced this change through his instruments — Grant, Butler, Sheridan, Kantz, and the like. To him be all the glory and all the consolation. The piratical hordes which have been let loose to wastes and destroy the land have been of great service to our cause. Grieved as we are to witness the ravages they have committed, and the individual distress they have caused, they cannot be said to have done us harm, when the grand issue is considered. They have made every man a patriot. They have plundered all alike — the Union man as well as the sec colonist