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Part 1 Atrocities Against Civilians by State
Artocities In Alabama
Artocities In Arkansas
Union Orders, Reports and Letters-- Arkansas Page 1
Union Orders, Reports and Letters-- Arkansas Page 2
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
Union Orders, Reports and Letters -- Native Americans
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
A famous photo
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
Undelivered Mail page 5
Union Orders, Reports, and Letters -- Camp Chase
The Camp Chase Letters
Undelivered Mail Page 1
Undelivered Mail Page 2
Undelivered Mail Page 3
Ship Island
Other Accounts of Ship Island
Ship Island and The Civil War
List of Dead at Ship Island Mississippi
Official Reports-- Ship Island --Page 1
Official Reports-- Ship island -- Page 2
Official Reports-- Ship island -- Page 3
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[quote1715418978=gpthelastrebel] Paul Tollefson · · . The following interview is the only historical account of the Burning of Bluffton during the Civil War that I have seen from a freed slave living in the area. From a historical perspective, this first hand account is priceless to the history of the town. Collected from seventeen states between 1936 and 1938 thousands of pages of often times first-hand accounts of those who were enslaved in the years just prior to the Civil War were documented. Daphney Wright, known affectionately as “Aunt Affie”, claims to be 106 years old.She comes to the door without a cane and greets her guests with accustomed curtsey . She is neatly dressed and still wears a fresh white cap as she did when she worked for the white folks. Save for her wearing glasses and walking slowly, there are no evidences of illness or infirmities. She has a sturdy frame, and a kindly face shows through the wrinkles.” "I been livin’ in Beaufort when de war fust [first] break out. Mr. Robert Cally [Corley] was my marsa. Dat was in October. De Southern soldiers come through Bluffton on a Wednesday and tell de white folks must get out de way, de Yankees right behind ‘em! De summer place been at Bluffton. De plantation was ten miles away. After we refugee from Bluffton, we spent de fust night at Jonesville. From dere we went to Hardeeville. We got here on Saturday evening. You know we had to ride by horses - in wagons an’ buggies. Dere weren’t no railroads or cars den. Dat why it take so long. I been right here when de Yankees come through. I been in my house asittin’ before de fire, jes’ like I is now. One of ‘em come up an’ say, ‘…I is come to set you free. You kin stay wid your old owners if you wants to, but dey’ll pay you wages. But dey sure did plenty of mischief while dey was here. Didn’t burn all de houses. Pick out de big handsome house to burn. Burn down Mr. Bill Lawton’ house. Mr. Asbury Lawton had a fine house. Dey burn dat. (He Marse Tom Lawton’ brother.) Burn Mr. Maner’ house. Some had put a poor white woman in de house to keep de place; but it didn’t make no difference.De soldiers say, ‘Dis rich house don’t belong to you. We goin’ to burn [it]. Dey’d go through de house an’ take … anythin’ they could find. Take from de white, an’ take from de colored, too. Take everything out de house! Dey take from my house. De white folks would bury de silver. But dey couldn’t always find it again. One give her silver to de colored butler to bury but he was kill, an’ nobody else know where he bury it. … Wheeler’s Brigade kill him. (https://heritagelib.org/wpa-slave-narratives-connected-to.... Special thanks to Ms. A.Manuel) [/quote1715418978]
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