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The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee Brutality (search)
Yankee Brutality --A Heroic Young Lady.--The Marietta (Ga.) Rebel has the following: We have been permitted to read a private letter from Aberdeen, Mississippi, received by an officer at this post from a relative. From it we gather the particulars of the murder of Mr. Isaac A. Jarmon, a wealthy citizen of Monroe county, and other dastardly acts of the Federal in their recent raid to that section. When the Yankees were in the neighborhood of Aberdeen Mr. Jarmon and Mr. MeLendon--the latter gentleman being in the regular service of the Confederate States, but at home at the time — attacked a squad of five of them, wounded one, and took three prisoners. The fifth man escaped and reported them. On the same evening a party of about five hundred went to Mr. Jarmon's house, and finding him in his yard shot him dead in the presence of his wife and niece. As he fell he fired at a Yankee captain and killed his horse. As soon as his niece, Miss Sallie Whitley, saw her u