Monday, January 23, 2012

By a copy of a proclamation . . .

, , , which will be found in another column, it will be seen that the women and children of Union men, whose husbands have been compelled to fly for their lives, were being driven out of Eastern Tennessee – banished from their homes.  Here is an exhibition of chivalry for you – such an exhibition as the more civilized Indian tribes would be ashamed of, and such as no slave community in all Dixie would be guilty of.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 2

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