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Ans.-Sheer brutality; nothing else. They did it on account of his courage and chivalry in forcing his regiment fearlessly and bravely upon them, and destroying about one-half of that Georgia regiment which was made up of their best citizens.

Ques. Were these barbarities perpetrated by that regiment?

Ans. By that same regiment, as I was told. We saw where their own dead were buried, with marble head and foot stones, and the names upon them, while ours were buried in trenches.

TESTIMONY OF DANIEL BIXBY, JR.

I went out in company with Mr. G. A. Smart, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who went to look for the body of his brother, who fell at Blackburn's Ford, in the action of the 18th of July, 1861. We took with us one who was there at the time, to point out where he fell. We found a grave there, which was opened. The clothes there found were identified as those of the brother of Mr. Smart. **** We found no head in the grave, and no bones of any kind-nothing but the clothes, and portions of the flesh of the body. We also saw the remains of three other bodies together that had not been buried at all, as we concluded from their appearance. The clothes were there, which we examined by cutting them open, and found some remains of flesh in them, but no bones. A Mrs. Pierce Butler, who lived near there, said that she had seen the rebels boiling portions of the bodies of our dead in order to obtain their bones as relics, the rebels not waiting for them to decay so that they could take their bones from them. She said that she had seen drum-sticks made of "Yankee shin-bones," as the Rebels call them. Mrs. Butler also said she had

seen a skull that one of the New Orleans artillery had, which he said he was going to send home and have mounted, and was going to drink a brandy-punch out of it the day he was married.

TESTIMONY OF FREDERICK SCHOLES, OF BROOKLYN, N. Y.

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I proceeded to the battle-field of Bull Run on Friday, April 4th, 1862. We passed across the battle-field, and proceeded to the place where I supposed my brother's. body was buried. We then proceeded to the house of a free negro, named Simon, or Simons, and had a long conversation with him. He said he was a sutler, or rather kept a little store, and supplied the rebel soldiers with eatables. He said the rebel soldiers would come into his store with bones in their hands, which they showed to him, and said they were bones of Yankees which they had dug up. He said it was a common thing for the soldiers to exhibit the bones of "the Yankees" which they had dug up.

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I went over to the house of a free negro named Hampton, as I understood that he assisted in burying some of our dead. I spoke to him about the manner in which these bodies had been dug up. He said he knew it had been done; that the rebels commenced digging up the bodies two or three days after they were buried, for the purpose at first of obtaining the buttons on their uniforms; afterwards they dug them up, as they decayed, to get their bones.

I went over where some of Mr. Lewis's negroes were, and inquired of them. Their information corroborated fully the statement of this man Hampton. They also stated that a great many of the bodies had been stripped naked on the field before they were buried; others were buried with their clothes on. They said that numbers

of them had been dug up through the winter, and even shortly after they had been buried.

A party of soldiers came along, and showed us part of a shin-bone, five or six inches long, which had the end sawed off. They said they had found it, among many other pieces, in one of the cabins the rebels had deserted. From the appearance of it, pieces had been sawed off to make finger-rings. As soon as the negroes noticed this, they said that the rebels had had rings made of the bones of our dead, and that they had them for sale in their camps. The soldiers said that there were lots of these bones scattered through the rebel huts sawed into rings.*

BARBAROUS TREATMENT OF TWENTY-TWO PRISONERS NEAR CHATTANOOGA.

*OFFICIAL REPORT OF JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL.

JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL'S OFFICE,

March 27th, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit for your consideration, the accompanying depositions of Corporal William Pittinger, Co. G, Second Regiment, Ohio Volunteers; private Jacob Parrott, Co. B, Thirty-third Regiment, Ohio Volunteers; private Robert Buffum, Co. H, Twentyfirst Regiment, Ohio Volunteers; Corporal William Reddick, Co. B, Thirty-third Ohio Volunteers; private William Bessinger, Co. G, Twenty-first Ohio Volunteers; taken at this office on the 25th instant, in compliance with your written instructions, from which the following facts will appear. These non-commissioned officers and

*See Report of the Committee on the conduct of the war.

privates belonged to an expedition set on foot in April, 1862, at the suggestion of Mr. T. J. Adams, a citizen of Kentucky, who led it, and under the authority and direction of General O. M. Mitchell, the object of which was to destroy the communications of the Georgia State Railroad between Atlanta and Chattanooga.

The mode of operation proposed, was to reach a point on the road where they could seize á locomotive and a train of cars, and then dash back in the direction of Chattanooga, cutting the telegraph wires, and burning the bridges behind them as they advanced, until they reached their own lines. The expedition consisted of twenty-four men, who, with the exception of its leader, Mr. Adams, and another citizen of Kentucky who acted. on the occasion as the substitute of a soldier, had been selected from the different companies for their known courage and discretion. They were informed that the movement was to be a secret one, and that they doubtless comprehended something of its perils; but Mr. Adams and Mr. Reddick alone seemed to have known anything of its precise direction or object. They, however, voluntarily engaged in it, and made their way in parties of twos and threes, in citizen's dress, and carrying only their side-arms, to Chattanooga, the point of rendezvous agreed upon, where twenty-two out of the twenty-four arrived safely. There they took passage, without attracting observation, for Marietta, which they reached at twelve o'clock on the night of the 11th of April. The following morning they took the cars back again toward Chattanooga, and at a place called Big Shanty, while the engineer and passengers were breakfasting, they detached the locomotive and three box-cars from the train, and started off at full speed for Chattanooga. They were now upon the field of the perilous

operations proposed by the expedition, but suddenly encountered unforeseen obstacles. According to the schedule of the road, of which Mr. Adams had possessed himself, they should have met but a single train on that day, whereas they met three, two of them being engaged on extraordinary service. About an hour was lost in waiting to allow these trains to pass, which enabled their pursuers to press closely upon them. They removed rails, threw out obstructions on the road, and cut the wires from time to time, and attained, when in motion, a speed of sixty miles an hour; but the time lost could not be regained. After having run about one hundred miles, they found their supply of wood, water, and oil exhausted, while the rebel locomotive, which had been chasing them, was in sight. Under these circumstances, they had no alternative but to abandon their cars and fly to the woods, which they did under the orders of Mr. Adams, each one endeavoring to save himself as best he might.

The expedition thus failed, from causes which neither reflected upon the genius by which it was planned, nor upon the intrepidity and discretion of those engaged in conducting it.

But for the accident of meeting the extra trains, which could not have been anticipated, the movement would have been a complete success, and the whole aspect of the war in the South and South-west would have been at once changed.

The expedition itself, in the daring of its conception, had the wildness of a romance, while in the gigantic and overwhelming results which it sought, and was likely to accomplish, it was absolutely sublime. The estimate of its character entertained in the South, will be found fully expressed in an editorial from the "Southern Confede

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