A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > Kentucky > Calloway http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=2719 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=34183 Submitted by: Gigimo Article Title: Macon Daily Telegraph Article Date: January 31 1862 Article Description: Yankee Outrages in Calloway County, Tennessee. Article Text: A correspondent of the Memphis Avalanche, writing from Paris, Tenn., on the 22d, thus tells of the infamous outrages committed upon the citizens of Calloway county by the vile Yankee invaders: Many painful reports, from eye witnesses, are furnished of Federal outrages at Murray. They went into private houses and took any and everything they wanted. They stole $600 in gold from one citizen. They stole mules, horses, and all sorts of stock and fowls from the premises. They broke open the jail and liberated all the runaways, and gave them guns, and made them go with them. They also stole every negro man they came across, and around them. They then made the negroes break open a bar room, and they literally drank up all the liquor in the house, amounting to about six hundred dollars worth. They then encouraged the negroes to be insolent and insulting to their masters. They broke open dry goods and grocery stores, and helped themselves to all that suited their fancy. They went to private dwellings, and took blankets, jewelry, and everything they could use. They broke and misused furniture in private houses, not even excepting that belonging to poor, defenceles! s widows. They broke open the private residence of a Southern officer, and slaughtered hogs they had stolen on his carpets and butchered them upon his fine tables; and finally they went to a house where a young man, a soldier in the Confederate army, was lying ill, and they beat and abused him while unable to raise a hand in his defense, till even they confessed he would die. Such cruelty is on a par with the barbarous army under Siegel and Lyons at Oak Hill, where they captured our Southern ladies, stripped them naked, whipped them, and compelled them to cook for them. But I turn from the recital of such outrages with the simple remark made to me by an Arkansas soldier in the Oak Hill battle, that God will never prosper a people guilty of such wrongs against humanity and civilization. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ KY-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com