:

ENDURED FOR A FREE GOVERNMENT;

OR,

A HISTORY

OF THE

Cruelties and Atrocities of the Rebellion.

"Facts stranger than Fiction."

BY

THOS. L. WILSON.

WASHINGTON:

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR.

23352.ė.99.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

THOMAS L. WILSON,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.

PART I.-TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR BY THE

REBEL GOVERNMENT.

Treatment of Prisoners captured at the Battle of Chickamauga

The Fort Pillow Massacre

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PART II. PERSECUTION OF UNIONISTS IN THE REVOLTED

STATES; OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, ETC.

Preliminary

Inauguration of the Reign of Terror

Murder of Mr. Turner

Murder of Marshall Glaze, Jr., and others

Murder of Rev. James Webster

Outrages on Union People in North Carolina

Murder of a one-armed Man in North Carolina

Barbarous Treatment of Union Sympathizers in the Rebel Army

Murder of Three Brothers

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Assault on Mr. Grier, a Kentucky State Senator

Outrages on the People in the Mountain Districts of Kentucky

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