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]