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OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 32, Part 2 (Forrest's Expedition) Chapter XLIV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - UNION. Page 477
Colonel T. S. BOWERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent. Many persons in this country employed their negroes to make crops; they are being conscripted. Is this right? It will entirely stop the cultivation of farms that were being prepared for crops by loyal men. I desire you to telegraph me instructions in the premises, so that I may interfere in these cases.
JNO. A. LOGAN,
Major-General.
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NASHVILLE, February 26, 1864.
Major General JOHN A. LOGAN,
Huntsville, Ala.:
Have recruiting officers discontinue impressing negroes who are employed in any way by the Government or by persons known to be loyal to the Government. We want to encourage the cultivation of the soil, and all persons living in States declared free by the President can employ their negroes under Treasury regulations, and the fact of such employment is protection against impressment.
U. S. GRANT,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS,
Huntsville, August 12, 1862.
Colonel MURRAY,
Woodville:
Reports are made to me of the most disgraceful outrages on the part of troops along the road within 10 or 12 miles of your station. Not only is properly taken without vouchers, as required by law and my repeated orders, but property is wantonly destroyed, negro women are debauched, and ladies insulted. Such acts are said to have been committed at Mr. Clay's place, 10 miles west of you, yesterday or the day before.
If you had a party at that place at the time stated you will arrest the officer and send him to these headquarters. Such conduct is disgracing the army and is destructive of public interests.
D. C. BUELL
OFFICIAL RECORDS: Series 1, vol 32, Part 2 (Forrest's Expedition) Chapter XLIV. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - UNION. Page 477
HUNTSVILLE, February 26, 1864
Colonel T. S. BOWERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General:
A major of colored troops is here with his party capturing negroes, with or without their consent. Many persons in this country employed their negroes to make crops; they are being conscripted. Is this right? It will entirely stop the cultivation of farms that were being prepared for crops by loyal men. I desire you to telegraph me instructions in the premises, so that I may interfere in these cases.
JNO. A. LOGAN,
Major-General.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE UNITED STATES FORCES
IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND NORTH ALABAMA,
Camp Taylor, Huntsville, June 30, 1862.
Colonel J. B. FRY,
Chief of Staff:
COLONEL: The pillage of the town of Athens* by the troops under the command of Colonel Turchin is a matter of general notoriety. At my request a committee of citizens examined the claims of those who had suffered, and the aggregate losses sworn to exceeded $50,000. I ordered a search to be made of the knapsacks and baggage of all enlisted men in the brigade. The reports were made by the officers in form, and not a solitary article was found except what was authorized by the regulations. Colonel Turchin has always declared that he did his utmost to prevent his troops from pillaging and from every irregularity. It is certain he has been unsuccessful.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
O. M. MITCHEL,
Major-General.
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