Charleston Daily Courier

December 5, 1864

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GATHERING THEM IN

����������� Our people above in Georgia are busily picking up the stragglers of SHERMAN�s army.� If they have committed no improper act, they are treated as prisoners of war.� But when it is ascertained that they have been guilty of outrageous indecencies or inhumanities, Gen. BLOOM�s order �to shoot stragglers� has been carried out.� Four stragglers who misbehaved themselves in the presence of some ladies near Eatonton, a few days since, were afterwards taken and summarily disposed of.

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]