Forrest's Camp somewhere in Mississippi, late June, 1864. Reporter Colonel Louis J. Dupre' of the Knoxville Daily Register, via The Memphis Daily Appeal (Atlanta, Georgia), June 23, 1864.

"...[a] grandmother, daughter, and granddaughter, were each, in the same room, held by the drunken brutes and subjected to outrages, by the bare recital of which humanity is appalled. A young wife, enciente, taken to a negro encampment, and, tied to stakes driven in the ground, was made to minister to the hell-born passions of a dozen fiends. Death, in mercy, came to her relief. A little boy, who sought to defend his mother, was brutally bayoneted. When their savage lust were gratified, the victims here and there were burned in their dwelling. Insanity, in some instances, came to the relief of sufferings such as never before were inflicted upon human creatures by remorseless fiends in human shape."

This is a sample of victims testimonies of blacks soldiers, led by General Samuel D. Sturgis, to brutilize whites by robbery, rape, arsen and murder.

The Moving Appeal by B.G. Ellis, 2003.
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David Upton