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  •       HEADQUARTERS SIXTH DIVISION, CAVALRY CORPS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, Pulaski, Tenn., April 21, 1865.

 

Brig. Gen. W. D. WHIPPLE,  Assistant Adjutant-General, Department of the Cumberland:
I have the honor to invite the attention of the major-general commanding to the following statement of facts, submitted to me by a citizen, in whom I believe reliance may be placed: On Sunday, the 9th instant, three soldiers, Brewer, Stutts, and Kiddy by name, with two Confederates, who would not show themselves, and cannot therefore be identified, belonging to a company of the Second Tennessee Mounted Infantry which is stationed at Clifton, came to the house of Mr. William Johnson, living on Sugar Creek, some eighteen or twenty miles southwest of this place, and demanded of his wife, he not being at home, $12,000. She told them she had no money, when they hung her and her daughter several times, completing their diabolical work by each of them outraging the person of Mrs. Johnson. (...) The full names of these outlaws as given me are Thomas Brewer, Wall Stutts, and Thomas Kiddy. It is stated to me that Lieut. James J. Bromley, of the company or command at Clifton, knows all of these soldiers and all of the witnesses by whom the facts can be proven, and that he discountenances, and so far as he may, represses all such proceedings. R. W. JOHNSON, Brigadier-General. USA 
                                                                                                                  OR S1 vol XLIX pt 2

  • HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF WESTERN VIRGINIA,Dublin, April 3, 1863.
Brig. Gen. E. P. SCAMMON,  U.S. Army.
(...) Your letter conveyed to me the first information I have of the shooting of Mr. Richmond, at Rich'd [Richmond] Ferry, by Confederate soldiers last autumn. I have inquired into the case and ascertain that if that crime was committed--and I have no doubt that it was--it was in direct violation of the orders of the major general then commanding this department. He was greatly incensed and caused the officer by whose order Mr. Richmond was said to have been shot to be arrested and brought to trial by court-martial.
You are in error in supposing that "no offense was charged against him (Richmond) save that of unswerving loyalty to the United States." The president of the court from whom I derive this information informs me that testimony was adduced which proved that Richmond not only guided the invaders but instigated them to the commission of many outrages on inoffensive citizens and committed himself all manner of outrages and crimes, including theft, arson, murder and rape.
The last-named crime was committed on the person of a daughter of a most estimable citizen of Western Virginia and the wife of an officer in the C. S. Army. If these statements are true, and they were generally believed to be true, you will I think admit that Mr. Richmond had little  reason to expect mercy at the hands of soldiers from the neighborhood in which his crimes were committed; and yet the proper steps were taken to bring the offenders to punishment. (...)  SAM. JONES, Major-General. CSA          OR S2 vol V