More Union rapists

  • "Some of the women...have been convinced that the yankees have hornes but not horms on the top of the head. I should have hesitated to of believed that men or those pretend to be men would become so demoralized and void of all decency or respect." James Grennlach 1st Michigan engineers, to his wife, from Savannah, Ga, december 26, 1864

  • GENERAL ORDERS No. 39. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE OHIO,
    In Camp, Huntsville, Ala., August 6, 1862.
I. By a general court-martial, which convened at Athens, Ala., on the 7th day of July, 1862, pursuant to Special Orders, No. 93, of July 5, 1862, (...), from the Headquarters Army of the Ohio, and of which Brig. Gen. J. A. Garfield, U.S. Volunteers, is president, was arraigned and tried Col. J. B. Turchin, of the Nineteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteers:
CHARGE 1.--Neglect of duty, to the prejudice of good order and military discipline.
Specification.--In this, that the said Col. J. B. Turchin, of the Nineteenth Regiment Illinois Volunteers, being in command of the Eighth Brigade, Army of the Ohio, did, on or about the 2d day of May, 1862, march the said brigade into the town of Athens, State of Alabama, and having had the arms of the regiment stacked in the streets did allow his command to disperse, and in his presence or with his knowledge and that of his officers to plunder and pillage the inhabitants of said town and of the country adjacent thereto, without taking adequate steps to restrain them.
Among the incidents of said plundering and pillaging are the following:
A party entered the dwelling of Milly Ann Clayton and opened all the trunks, drawers, and boxes of every descriptions (...) They also insulted the said Milly Ann Clayton and threatened to shoot her, and then proceeding to the kitchen they there attempted an indecent outrage on the person of her servant girl.
For six or eight hours that day squads of soldiers visited the dwelling-house of Thomas S. Malone, (...) acting rudely and violently toward the females of the family. Squads of soldiers, with force of arms, entered the private residence of John F. Malone and forced open all the locks of the doors, broke open all the drawers to the bureaus, the secretary, sideboard, wardrobes, and trunks in the house, (...) and in the performing these outrages they used coarse, vulgar, and profane language to the females of the family. (...) A part of this brigade went to the plantation of the above-named Malone and quartered in the negro huts for weeks, debauching the females and roaming with the males over the surrounding country to plunder and pillage.
A party of this command entered the house of R. S. Irwin and ordered his wife to cook dinner for them, and while she and her servant were so engaged they made the most indecent and beastly prepositions to the latter in the presence of the whole family, and when the girl went away  they followed her in the same manner, notwithstanding her efforts to avoid them.
(...) Several soldiers came to the house of Mrs. Charlotte Hine and committed rape on the person of a colored girl (...) The house of J. H. Jones was entered by Colonel Mihalotzy, of the Twenty-fourth Illinois Volunteers, who behaved rudely and coarsely to the ladies of the family.        OR S1 volXVI pt 2



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