More Union rapists

• "July 29.--Left bivouac at 8 a.m., regiment in rear, Capt. John B. Loomis commanding the rear guard. Battalion was ordered to burn the mill bridge and causeway bridges. While so engaged, Private James Currance, Company A, First New York Mounted Rifles, was brought to him by the caterer of my mess, Dennis Riley, Company D, who, with one or two others, caught Currance in the act of committing a rape upon an old woman sixty years of age. While Captain Loomis was securing him, he shot at one of the men who was detailed to tie him." 3 august 1863, -Expedition from Portsmouth, Va., to Jackson, N. C., and skirmish July 28. No. 2.--Report of Maj. Samuel Wetherell, Eleventh Pennsylvania Cavalry. OR SI vol XXVII pt 2
  

• "Company officers should be required to remain with their commands, and the men should under no circumstances be permitted to leave their commands to forage until their work is done. Men not connected with their commands should not be permitted to accompany the expedition. They are usually men of the most depraved and worthless character, who accompany the expedition for the purpose of plundering private houses and committing outrages upon defenseless females. This class of men by their bad conduct bring disgrace upon the army. The commanding officer of the expedition should be authorized to shoot all men found committing these outrages." HQ. THIRD BRIG., FIRST DIV., 20TH ARMY CORPS, Atlanta, Ga, october 20 1864 to Lt col. H.W.Perkins, Asst Adjudant gl. OR SI vol XXXIX pt 2
  

   

• "The rebels in a body have passed from among us, and the counties are comparatively quiet. The amount of damage done the people is in proportion of ten to one, and the misfortune is that those who came as our defenders and to drive out thieves, robbers, and bushwhackers damaged the people ten times as much in this way as did these rebels, from whom we had no right to expect better things. The officers, I hear, said they could not restrain the men;...Garrison and his myrmidons have been let loose among us, and it may be that they have done the chief work;... An inquiry by an honest military court into these things will develop the enormity of crimes of the most startling character. Robbery, murder, arson, and rapes will figure largely in the catalogue."  From Major A.A.King, Richmond (Mo), 25 july 1864 to general Rosecrans OR SI vol XLI part 2 p387
  
• "... One evening last week a report reached the neighborhood of O'Fallon, in this county, that Troy had been captured by 700 bushwhackers, whereupon many members of a militia company (Enrolled Missouri Militia), composed mostly of Germans, collected with the view of marching to its rescue. Excited by the report and many of them drunk, they went through the neighborhood at night, pressing horses and guns, in doing which they unfortunately abused, cursed, and exasperated several quiet citizens and families, insulted one or more ladies, used personal violence against one, hurt with a gun very badly a Union man who discredited the report and refused to go, threatened to kill several, broke open houses, shot into one several times, greatly to the danger and terror of  its inmates." F.W Switzler to gl Fisk , 1st august 1864, St Charles (Mo), OR same volume p510
  
• During the March to the sea, Mrs kate Nichols, wife of a confederate captain, was raped by two union soldiers near Milledgeville. She lost her mind and spend the rest of her life in an asylum. Culprits was never seized.