An Account of the Assassination of Loyal Citizens of North Carolina
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Excerpt from An Account of the Assassination of Loyal Citizens of North Carolina: For Having Served in the Union Army Which Took Place at Kingston in the Months of February and March 1864 The following account of an atrocious crime was written thirty-one years ago, at a time when all the incidental facts attending and preceding it were fresh in my mind. It would be difficult to state the exact why it was written. But probably because there had to be a vent for an outward pressure of suppressed indignation which could not be controlled. An wanton and cruel assassination of twenty-two perfectly innocent men had been perpetrated, practically, by the order of an inhuman monster who had been placed beyond the reach of the power to punish, by the operation of an entirely unnecessary compact, flowing from the final defeat of the rebel army. From no standpoint either of politics, policy or humanity, could the terms, in their entirety, granted at the time of the surrender be defended. Holding myself, though unwittingly, responsible for placing these murdered victims in a position which caused them to be assassinated; indignant that their murderer, by an untoward blunder, had been placed beyond the reach of the infliction of a just punishment, my grief and chagrin knew no bounds. These feelings had burned within me until the oppression of silence was too much to bear, and under the full glow of feverish heat, this narrative was written; and now, thirty years and more since it was penned. I am not disposed to change a single word or phrase save in the interest of better expression. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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