The following are from the book,"The UnCivil War: Union Army and Navy Excesses in the Official Records" by Thomas Bland Keys. Secession Corpse Colonel George W. Deitzler, First Kansas Infantry, commanding Second Brigade, First Division, Central Army of the Mississippi, at Trenton, Tennessee, eighty miles northeast of Memphis, on June 26,1862, wrote to Brigadier General Isaac F. Quinby, District of the Mississippi, Columbus, Kentucky: The people complain bitterly of the outrages committed by a portion of Brigadier General Robert B.Mitchell's brigade; they are charged with jayhawking horses, negroes, etc....At Union City(thirty-one miles north of Trenton) a foraging party under command of Captain Marcus J.Parrott (assistant adjutant general, Seventh Kansas Cavalry), formerly a member of Congress from Kansas, arrested Rev.Mr.Koyle...and were about to rob him....when he told them that he was in charge of a funeral. They abused him very much, called him a d----d liar and broke open the coffin, and on discovering that it contained a corpse they told Mr Koyle to go to hell with his d----d secession corpse...(Captain Parrott reported the facts to General Mitchell, who declined to take any notice of the case. I have heard of other outrages equally atrocious perpetrated by these wretches. Innumerable Outrages Captain B.P.Chenowith, First Kansas Infantry, and provost marshal at Trenton, on June 30,1862, communicated to General Halleck in Corinth about several incidents, including some repetition of the case in the above paragraph, but with additional information. My attention has been called to innumerable outrages committed by our troops, especially the First Brigade, under Brigadier General Robert B.Mitchell (First Division, Central Army of the Mississippi), in passing through this country. An irregular and perfectly unwarrantable system of foraging is carried on by many of the regiments... While General Mitchell's brigade was near Union City....a party of men from the Seventh Kansas Cavalry, Jennison's Cavalry under the charge of Captain M.J.Parrott,...met a funeral procession with the remains of a...widow lady...and, unmindful of the remonstrances of......Parrott, stopped the procession and demanded what they had in the wagon. Being told that it was a dead woman, they burst the coffin and examined the contents and then left, saying, "Go on with your d----d secession b---h." This was reported to General Mitchell, but he took no measures to punish it.... On...June 24......cavalry soldier's(of Mitchell's brigade).....went to the house of Mrs Emily Tyree....not far from Trenton and robbed and insulted her. The same night....a party roused the family of a Mr.Harper, residing about five miles from Trenton, and robbed him and abused his daughter with rough language.