Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5.
Frank Moore, Ed.

Union men hanged and crucified.--The Fort Pillow correspondent of the Cincinnati Times says: Several of us went up the river the other day, in a skiff, a short distance, to the half-submerged house of a Union family, named Armstrong, residing on the Tennessee shore, and the family assures me a number of loyal citizens were hanged for no other reason than their attachment to the Union. Mrs. Armstrong says she knew six men who were executed, and that, in one instance, a poor fellow that had been coerced into the secession army, and had twice deserted, was captured, carried off in the night, and actually crucified: spikes being driven through his hands and feet, thus fastening him to a tree and leaving him to a lingering and horrible death. The unfortunate victim was gagged that his cries might not call any one to assist or relieve him; and nearly a week had elapsed before he was discovered. He was still alive, but died the second day after his release.--Philadelphia Press, May 5.