Doc. 111.-barbarities of the rebels.
General Dodge's report.
headquarters District of Corinth, Miss., January 24, 1863.
Captain: I have the honor to submit a few of the outrages committed upon the citizens of Alabama by the confederate troops.
While all their leaders, from the President down, are boasting of their carrying on this war in accordance with the laws which govern nature in such cases, and are charging upon our troops all kinds of depredations and outrages, I think a few simple facts might put them to blush, and make those parties, and our press and people who are seconding the efforts of Davis to cast a stigma upon us, ashamed of the work they are doing.
I will state merely what I know to be true.
Abe Canadi and Mr. Mitchell were hung two weeks ago for being Union men. They lived on the Hacklebon settlement, Marion County, Alabama.
Mr. Hallwork and his daughter, of the same county, were both shot for the same cause.
The latter was instantly killed; the former is still alive, but will probably die.
Peter Lewis, and three of his neighbors, were hunted down by one hundred bloodhounds, and captured.
The houses of Messrs. Palmer, Welsby, Williams, and the three Weightmans, and of some thirty others, were burned over their heads.
The women and children were turned out of doors, and the community was notified that if they allowed them to go into other houses, or fed or harbored them in any manner, they would be served the same.
Mr. Peterson, living at the head of Bull Mountain, was shot.
I am now feeding some one hundred of these families, who, with their women and children, some gray-haired men, and even cripples on crutches, were driven out, and found their way here, through the woods and highways, without food or shelter.
All this was done for the simple reason that they were Union men, or that they had brothers or relatives in our army.
The statements of these people are almost beyond belief, did we not have the evidence before us. I am informed by them that there are hundreds of loyal men and women in the woods of Alabama, waiting for an opportunity to escape.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 