As I sat here perusing my April 24 (1864) edition of the New York Daily Tribune - a rabidly abolitionist newspaper - I couldn't help but think of some of you regulars on this board, and how the article I was reading would affect your blood pressure. The article is much too long to go through in detail, but maybe some of you would be interested in the headlines:

FROM EAST TENNESSEE - The Rebel General Forrest and his Family - Their Previous History - All Slave-drivers and Women-Whippers - Guerrilla Band Broken Up - Their Horrible Murders and Outrages - How a Negro Soldier Avenges Insults and Injuries - The Law of Self-Defense.

Other issues from this time frame go into excruciating, and quite incendiary, detail about Fort Pillow. And I don't even dare tell you about the Tribunes stories about how Union POWs are mistreated and tortured, and about all the atrocities committed by Southerners.