Friday, February 17, 2012

Rebel Brutality

HARRISBURG, May 26 – The following dispatch has been received by the Governor from a reliable source.  It is proper the people should know the facts,


CHAMBERSBURG, PA May 26

To Governor Curtin

We have examined a dozen stragglers from the Maryland First, of Gen. Banks column, to-day.  The testimony is concurrent as to the brutal treatment of our sick and wounded prisoners.  A number of Pennsylvanians who were since at Winchester are hid in the wheat fields on Gen. Banks’ route of retreat.  Many were mercilessly butchered.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 4

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