Sunday, February 17, 2013

A correspondent of the Utica Observer . . .

. . . writing from Missouri, speaks of the discovery of divers[e] interesting relics found in the rebel camp.  Among others two human ribs, bearing the following inscription: – “The ribs of a New York Zouave, July 21, 1861,” soup dishes made of human skulls, &c.  In a railway car on a road running out of Macon, Georgia, hangs, or did hang a human skull, purporting to be that of a Yankee soldier killed at Bull Run.  It is useless to talk about southern society declining towards barbarism – it is already there.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 4

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