. Sufferings endured for a free government; . yal portion of the state. Clay, Owesley, and Jackson,which have furnished on an average five hundred volun-teers to the country, not one of whom is near enough tocome to the rescue of their friends; they are all at Vicks-burg, Murfreesboro, and other points out of the State. I have not seen my wife for some three weeks, anddont know what to do. We have no meat or grain tolive on here, and no horses or mules to take us away;no means to buy with. All my papers, notes, accounts,deeds, and everything I had, are burned up, and I havenot clothing even fo
. Sufferings endured for a free government; . yal portion of the state. Clay, Owesley, and Jackson,which have furnished on an average five hundred volun-teers to the country, not one of whom is near enough tocome to the rescue of their friends; they are all at Vicks-burg, Murfreesboro, and other points out of the State. I have not seen my wife for some three weeks, anddont know what to do. We have no meat or grain tolive on here, and no horses or mules to take us away;no means to buy with. All my papers, notes, accounts,deeds, and everything I had, are burned up, and I havenot clothing even for a change. I am going to try toget through to my family to-night, if I can, and will ina few days decide what we will do. A number of families must starve, if not soon , truly, Abijah Gilbert. MURDER OF JAMES McCULLUM. On the 13th of February, 1863, a party of Confede-rate soldiers were sent with orders to conscript Mr. JamesMcCullum, an honest, industrious, hard-working Unionman, residing in Greene county, Tennessee. When they. ATROCITIES OF CHAMP FURGUSON. 101 arrived in sight of his house he was engaged in feedingcattle. Seeing their approach, and knowing their pur-pose, he thought to evade them, and ran towards thebarn. One of the party, without hailing or stoppinghim, which could easily have been done, brutally shothim through the neck, killing him instantly. His threelittle children, who were standing near, seeing theirfather had been murdered, ran to their mother, who wasin the house, and told her. She ran out, shrieking, andwringing her hands in anguish. Approaching the mon-sters, who were sitting on the fence laughing at heragony, she asked them why they had killed her husband ?They answered, Because he was a d—d Tory!* ATROCITIES OF CHAMP FURGUSON. The annals of no civilized, nor even savage warfare,could furnish, perhaps, a parallel to the crimes and bar-barities of Champ Furguson. He boasted of havingkilled fourteen men; and there is no question of t
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