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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
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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
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
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[quote1715101241=gpthelastrebel] Lincoln’s Hessian Thieves “My [planter/physician] father had two sons in Virginia, in the [Confederate] Army and Navy, and the next one to go was I. So during the winters of 1863 and 1864, and the early part of 1865, although he shod his Negroes with good shoes, he made me, and also my younger brother, go barefoot during the winters. He said it would toughen and harden us, and that when my time to go to Virginia, I would be able to stand the exposure of the battle fields; and the result was that I never had, from that day to this, any serious illness – owing much of my longevity to this enforced practice in my rearing. I can recollect, while going out in winters with my feet bare, in the snow and ice that I always went on the side of the fence where the sun shone through the cracks of the rails and melted the snow! It was warmer! With great vividness I remember, also, how in March 1865, after Sherman had burned Columbia . . . General Francis P. Blair, of Sherman’s army, came with his corps, consisting of General Hickenlouper’s Brigade and other troops, through Robeson County, where we were refugeeing. The corps that came immediately around our home consisted of Germans or Hickenlouper’s Brigade, who could speak very little English, and German officers were in command. They were hirelings of the United States Government to assist in fighting the South, very much as the Hessians were hired during the Revolutionary War. It had been rumored that my father was a very wealthy man, and immediately the Hessians drew their steel ramrods out of their muskets, and began to pierce the ground all around our home and other places on the premises, to find what treasure they could unearth. They found the silver my oldest sister had buried under the steps. They also discovered a valued deposit in which was my father’s valued diploma from Jefferson College, of the University of Pennsylvania. [The bummers] had gone through our home and cut open the locked bureau drawers with axes and stolen every valuable they could find . . . . [An officer,] with three or four Germans, came into our home . . . and demanded that my mother give them the contents of her safe, which contained milk, butter and other food. Of course she had to comply! Immediately, they started to drink the milk, and remarked, “Mrs. Bellamy, is this milk poisoned?” So, my mother drank a cup of milk, before they would drink the remainder. They left us without food and penniless for nearly a week, after the troops continued their march to Fayetteville and Wilmington and through Bentonville. [While] a boy, two bummers seized me, held me, and took off a nice pair of shoes, which I had put on to prevent them from being stolen! I was left in my stocking feet, in the cold rain, in the back yard! And that Yankee had my shoes! [Someone told the Yankees of a] certain lady living in the neighborhood had money and jewels, which she had hidden in the mattress of her bed. [They] found her sick in bed [and] asked for her money and she denied having it. They pulled her out, raised up the mattress, found her valuables, and took them! As a punishment, they knocked in the top of a hogshead of molasses, which they found in her barn, and dipped her, head and all, into the barrel! (Memoirs of an Octogenarian, John D. Bellamy, Jr., Observer Publishing, 1941, pp. 23-25) [/quote1715101241]
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