The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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The Yankee Courages in Tennessee.

--The Yankees are holding a carnival of violence in Tennessee. The Shelbyville (Tenn.) Banner says that the Yankees have not left a fence standing within a circuit of five miles around Murfreesboro' and that fires are of nightly occurrence. It adds:

‘ The destruction of the fine residence of Judge Ridly, with its library, papers, and furniture has already been noted. But we have recently had information of an outrage of a still more gross character. A few nights since a party of Federal soldiers, under charge of an officer, visited the house of Isaac Jatung in Rutherford, violently seized his person, and taking him into his own yard, cruelly and shamefully whipped him on the naked back.--His wife and daughters appeared upon the porch and attempted to remonstrate with the soldiers, when they fired a volley at these innocent ladies.

The Knoxville Register learns, through a letter from a lady living near Murfreesboro', that the vandals are committing terrible excesses in Middle Tennessee. They are turning women and children out of their houses without food or shelter. They had ravished four young girls of good respectability in society, two of whom had become deranged.

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