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Part 1 Atrocities Against Civilians by State
Artocities In Alabama
Artocities In Arkansas
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Atrocities In Florida
Atrocities In Georgia
Newspaper Accounts Georgia
Artocities In Kentucky
The Paper Trail of the Civil War in Kentucky 1861-1865 --- Kentucky
Union Officers Orders, Reports and Letters -- Kentucky
Atrocities In Louisiana
Union Officers Orders, Reports and Letters -- Louisiana - Page - 2
Official Report Relative to the conduct of Federal Troops in Western Louisiana -- Page 1
Official Report Relative to the conduct of Federal Troops in Western Louisiana -- Page 2
Union Officers Orders, Reports and Letters-- Louisiana
Confederate Orders, Reports and Letters -- Louisiana
Artocities In Maryland
Union Orders, Reports and Letters -- Maryland
Atrocities In Mississippi
Article Henry Clay Dean ---- Mississippi
Union Orders, Reports and Letters -- Mississippi Page 2
Atrocities In Mississippi --Page 1
Letter of Alfred E. Lewis To a Texas Newspaper
Confederate Orders, Reports and Letters -- Mississippi
Confederate Orders, Reports and Letters -- Mississippi -2
Union Officers Orders, Reports and Letters -- Mississippi
Atrocities In Missouri
Union Orders, Reports and Letters -- Missouri
Atrocities Against Native Americans
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Atrocities In North Carolina
Atrocities in North Carolina -- Page 1
Confederate Orders, Reports and Letters -- North Carolina
Union Orders, Reports and Letters -- North Carolina
Atrocities In South Carolina
Union Reports, Letters and Orders -- Page 2
Atrocities In South Carolina -- Page 1
Confederate Orders, Reports and Letters -- South Carolina
Union Orders, Reports and Letters -- South Carolina
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Atrocities In Tennessee
Alice Williamson Diary -- Tennessee
Confederate Orders, Reports and Letters -- Tennessee
Union Officers Orders, Reports and Letters -- Tennessee
Union Officers Orders, Reports and Letters -- Tennessee - 2
Atrocities In Tennesse Page 1
Artocities In Virginia
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Atrocities In Virginia -- Page 1
Confederate Orders, Reports and Letters -- Virginia
Union Officers Orders, Reports and Letters -- Virginia
Atrocities In West Virginia
Union Orders, Reports and Letters -- Werst Virginia
Part 2 Atrocities Against Prisoners of War
Camp Chase
Camp Chase Letters Delivered
Undelivered Mail Page 4
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Union Orders, Reports, and Letters -- Camp Chase
The Camp Chase Letters
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[quote1714333443=gpthelastrebel] The War Against North Carolina Civilians From: bernhard1848@gmail.com After Sherman’s 65,000-man army entered North Carolina in early March, 1865, eighteen-year-old Janie Smith wrote friend Janie Robeson of nearby Bladen County and described the invasion of her home in Lebanon, North Carolina. This was near the battle of Averasboro, where Lt. Gen. William Hardee’s 10,000 man army former garrison troops stopped the battle-hardened veterans of Sherman’s left wing. All of Janie’s brothers were in Confederate service. Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.com The Great American Political Divide The War Against North Carolina Civilians “Where home used to be. April 12, 1865: Your precious letter, my dear Janie, was received night before last, and the pleasure that it afforded me, and indeed the whole family, I leave for you to imagine, [and I am thankful] when I hear that my friends are left with the necessities of life, and unpolluted by the touch of Sherman’s Hell-hounds. My experience since we parted has indeed been sad . . . Our own army came first and enjoyed the cream of the country and left but little for the enemy . . . [and] such an army of patriots fighting for their hearthstones is not to be conquered by such fiends incarnate as fill the ranks of Sherman’s army. Our political sky does seem darkened with a fearful cloud, but when compared with the situation of our fore-fathers, I can but take courage. [At] about four o’clock the Yankees came charging, yelling and howling. They just knocked down all such like mad cattle. Right into the house, breaking open bureau drawers of all kinds faster than I could unlock. They cursed us for having hid everything and made bold threats if certain things were not brought to light, but all to no effect. They took Pa’s hat and stuck him pretty badly with a bayonet to make him disclose something . . . The Negroes are bitterly prejudiced to his minions. They were treated, if possible, worse than the white people, all their provisions taken and their clothes destroyed and some carried off. They left no living thing in Smithville but the people. One old hen played sick and thus saved her neck, but lost all of her children. The Yankees would run all over the yard to catch the little things to squeeze to death. Every nook and corner of the premises was searched and the things that they didn’t use were burned or torn into strings. No house but the blacksmith shop was burned, but into the flames they threw every tool, plow, etc., that was on the place. The battlefield does not compare with [the Yankees] in point of stench. I don’t believe they have been washed since the day they were born. I was too angry to eat or sleep . . . Gen. Slocum with two other hyenas of his rank, rode up with his body-guard and introduced themselves with great pomp, but I never noticed them at all. Sis Susan was sick in bed and they searched the very pillows that she was lying on, and keeping up such a noise, tearing up and breaking to pieces, that the Generals couldn’t hear themselves talk, but not a time did they try to prevent it. They got all of my stockings and some of our collars and handkerchiefs. If I ever see a Yankee woman, I intend to whip her and take the clothes off her very back.” (Janie Smith’s Letter (excerpts), Mrs. Thomas H. Webb Collection, NC Division of Archives & History) [/quote1714333443]
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