Taken from the Louisville Daily Journal - 5 Aug 1863:

Brutal Treatment of Prisoners - We have received a letter from a correspondent in Richmond, Kentucky, who was taken prisoner by the rebel Scott in his late capture of that place. He complains bitterly of the inhumane treatment which the Federal prisoners received at the hands of the scoundrel Scott after their capture by him. In the cavalry charge led by Scott in person against our forces, Orderly-Sergeant McConnell, company F, Tenth Kentucky was killed.

As soon as he fell from his horse on the ground the villainous thieves crowded around his dead body and took from it his watch, money, coat, hat, pants, and equipment, etc, saying that he was the "first d--d Yankee they had killed." The rebels captured in all about eighty prisoners, and took them to the Courthouse in Richmond, where they abused them in the most revolting manner. Some were knocked down with clubbed guns for all sorts of imaginary offences, or for no reason at all.

Others were cruelly, inhumanly cut across their heads and shoulders with unsheathed swords. Our correspondent says he observed all this with his own eyes. The prisoners were placed under guard of a portion of Ashby's Second Tennessee cavalry. One of the rebels, specially appointed for the purpose, whose name is Stephens, went to each prisoner and compelled him to give up his pocketbook, and then searched to see if he had not concealed something from their rebel eyes.

After having taken all of the money in the possession of the Federal soldiers, they robbed them of boots, coats, hats, and blankets, or whatever pleased their fancy, after which our unlucky boys were paroled and permitted to proceed to Lexington, where they arrived after much marching, and countermarching, trials, and tribulations.

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From the same newspaper, same date:

We have it from the best authority that Pegram has not recently been in this State at all. The late invading force was led by Scott, who is believed to be at this time safely back across the Cumberland. Scott owes his safety and that of the mass of his force to Colonel Nixon, of the Confederate service, who, at the head of 200 men, gave our troops battle and exposed himself to certain capture to give Scott time to escape. Nixon and eight or nine other captured officers were brought here, and, we understand, are to be sent this morning to Johnson's Island.

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