The Barbarities of the Rebels As Shown in Their Cruelty to the Federal Wounded
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It seems that we have not to wait for that contingency. The inevitable hour when the true issues of this war were to be disclosed has come, and the South unfurls the black flag — its own flag — accord- ingly. — Z)a% Mies, Jan. 20, 1862. Murder of negro servants, in a hospital boat. After the battle of Stone River, or Murfi-eesboro, a Federal hospital boat, when convening the wounded, and bearing the customary flag indicating its object, was fired upon and boarded by the rebels. Some fifteen neg...roes emjjloyed as servants on board the boat were killed. Others endeavoring to escape, were shot in the water while clinging to the sides of the boat. Tins inhuman treatment was not the work of guerrillas, for whose actions the rebel authorities might endeavor to excuse themselves, but was done by soldiers under the conuuaud of a Colonel Wade. Greneral Wheeler's Ad- jutant General was among the officers present. This Wheeler was pro- moted for the raid of which the attack on the hospital boat and murder of the negroes was the principal feature.
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