Barbarities of the Rebels

NEW YORK, March 19. – The Tribune’s dispatch states further confirmation of previous statements touching the barbarities practiced by the rebels upon the bodies of Union soldiers buried on the battle field of Bull Run have been received.  The Lieutenant Colonel of the 3d New Jersey regiment, the first regiment of infantry to enter Manassas, has in his possession a skull which he found hanging over a table in a rebel hut inscribed with the words “Sic Sumper Tyrannus,” and the Virginia coat of arms.  He satisfied himself also that they used skulls for ladles, and made pipes of the bones of our slaughtered men.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 22, 1862, p. 3