So are you going to dismiss this first hand account by strongly pro-Confederate Southern citizen Myra Inman of Cleveland, Tennessee?
"The soldiers (Nathan Bedford Forrest's) are dealing very badly, taking corn, leaving down fences, stealing horses, chickens, hogs and everything else they can see..."
If they did this to Inman property, property of a well-known and well-connected pro-rebel clan in Cleveland, I shudder to think what they did to poor Union families.
Do you dismiss this first-hand account?
"The soldiers (Nathan Bedford Forrest's) are dealing very badly, taking corn, leaving down fences, stealing horses, chickens, hogs and everything else they can see..."
Let's look at some other excerpts from Myra Inman's diary [Link]:
Pg. 230. ... The Yankees are taking our corn, potatoes, pork, salt, and never pay a cent and besides talk very insulting to us.
Pg. 232. ... He, Georgie and Pryor have come home, the Yanks have laid his farm waste. Wilders Yankee Cavalry camped on our lot from sun down until 12 o’clock, took corn, potatoes and straw and burnt a great number of our rails. [Fence rails, I suspect.]
Pg. 300. ... Two regiments of Yanks came to repulse the Rebels. They stole some of Mrs. Watkins’ corn, four pigs, three or four chickens, two hams of meat, and burnt a great many rails.