Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Memphis is just now a Pandemonium.

Citizens are being impressed into the rebel service at the point of the bayonet.  Union men are fleeing for their lives.  Shots are exchanged upon the streets, and doubtless the knife and pistol of the assassin are doing their deadly work.  What a comment on the beauties and blessings of secession, and the gospel of liberty, as dispensed by the messengers of Jeff. Davis.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 1

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