June 10, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)
We have just seen a gentleman from the neighborhood of Edward’s Depot, who informs us that the vandals are making a clean sweep of everything in that vicinity. They have burnt every gin and mill, and in many instances every building on nearly all the plantations–arrested the men and taken them off, leaving no white person but the women on the premises, and when the negroes remain they are armed. Our informant thinks that a small force would be able to repel these robbers. Can’t our military authorities do something for that neighborhood!–Jackson Mississippian.