June 3, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)
The following extract from a letter received from Jackson, Miss., is but in keeping with the conduct of the enemy against whom we are battling.
* * * “I must tell you of some of the outrages committed by the vandals. Besides destroying every pound of food they could find in the stores and on the plantations, they destroyed furniture, fences, killed milk cows and hogs, leaving them lying on the ground. Even good old Bishop Green was visited very hardly. They took his sermons and scattered and trampled them in the mud–took a favorite prayer book and cut it up; chopped the piano and melodeon to pieces, and even carried off his robes. At the Church they carried off the robes and offertory plates.
“They robbed a woman with four children of her cow and pigs, took her last pound of meal from her refusing to leave her any for her children, and even took off a cake that was cooking, saying they intended to starve them out. Ladies’ wardrobes were sacked, the clothing torn to pieces, and everything like jewelry was carried off. One prisoner taken yesterday had fifteen watches, besides jewelry. Fences, hedges and shrubbery were wantonly destroyed–indeed, every outrage that a fiendish malignity could suggest. But I will not shock you further with the recital of these cruel wrongs.”
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