[Idabilly]

Here is another first hand account.

April 8th

The young man that was shot Friday was from Sumner but no one can find out his name. Mrs. A and W was going from Col. G. and me! I think carrying him out to the pines. They say he wore a look of calm despair. The Yankees pretended that they were tired and sat down on the side of the road but made the soldier stand in the pike: he stood with arms folded across his noble heart (for well I know he was a noble Southron and eyes bent toward the ground as a pale as death while the yankees taunted him with such remarks as ‘I will have his boots;’ another would name something that he would.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

At least the Yankees left that Southern boy keep his eyeballs. You need to read Chapter 23 of Hurlburt's history of the rebellion in Bradley county Tennessee where Confederates travelling with Wheeler on September 27, 1863 gouged out the eyeballs of Union citizen Robert Carter before murdering him. All told by sworn statements from your Southern citizens.

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