Four Years a Scout and Spy: "General Bunker", One of Lieut. General Grant's Most Daring and Successful Scouts, Being a Narrative of ... the Experience of Corporal Ruggles During Four Years' Service as a Scout and Spy for the Federal ArmyDowns, E. C. (Edward C.)
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Four Years a Scout and Spy: "General Bunker", One of Lieut. General Grant's Most Daring and Successful Scouts, Being a Narrative of ... the Experience of Corporal Ruggles During Four Years' Service as a Scout and Spy for the Federal Army
Downs, E. C. (Edward C.)
Ruggles, Lorain, 1823-1902; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
Two days after our imprisonment, we received a copy of the charges
against us, of which the following is an exact copy:
"CHARGES AGAINST CORPORAL RUGGLES, AND TEN OTHERS, OF THE 20TH
OHIO INFANTRY.
"CHARGE.--_Indiscriminate plundering and pillaging of
citizens in the country._
"SPECIFICATION FIRST.--That Corporal L. Ruggles, Corporal
D. W. Huxley, Sergeants W. G. Downs and Thomas J. Watson, and
privates John Lawrence, Jacob W. Snook, H. Chryst, S.
Rosebaum, Granville Cassedy, John Sessler, and B. F.
Wannamaker, did, on or about the 14th day of October, 1862,
enter the house of one W. S. Perry and break the locks of two
trunks, and take from them W. S. Perry's clothes; also, the
clothing of his children, some finger-rings, some jaconet cloth
for children's clothes, and rummaged through every part and
portion of the house; also taking two mules, one horse and one
saddle, and one double-barreled shotgun, both tubes being
broken.
"SPECIFICATION SECOND.--That Corporal L. Ruggles, and ten
others, named in specification first, did, on or about the
14th day of October, 1862, enter the house of one Mrs. Tabitha
Perry, took from her possession two bed-quilts, one sheet, a
pair of pillows, and a bolster; also, one mule.
"SPECIFICATION THIRD.--That Corporal L. Ruggles, and ten
others, named in specification first, did enter the house of
Mr. Lawhorn, break the door of the ladies' wardrobe, searched
through the whole house, brandishing their pistols. Mrs.
Milliken endeavoring to save her property, they threatened
to shoot her, and used insulting and threatening language to
the same; also, taking the milk in the house, prepared for sick
and wounded Federal soldiers at Dunlap's Springs, of which they
were notified.
"SPECIFICATION FOURTH.--That Corporal L. Ruggles, and ten
others, named in specification first, did, on or about the
14th day of October, 1862, at the farm-house of W. S. Daugherty,
enter his outhouse, and take therefrom three saddles and three
bridles, threatening to take said Daugherty's life in case of
his interfering.
"SPECIFICATION FIFTH.--That Corporal L. Ruggles, and ten
others, named in specification first, approached the house
of B. N. Hendricks, at which place Mrs. Goforth was staying,
and demanded their dinner, frightening Mrs. Goforth to such an
extent as to cause a miscarriage, after being _enceinte_ seven
months, her life placed in a very dangerous condition.
"SPECIFICATION SIXTH.--That Corporal L. Ruggles did forcibly
take a pair of gloves from W. S. Perry and wear them to town.
That Sergeant T. J. Watson did take from W. S. Perry's trunk
one razor-strop and shaving-box. That Private B. F. Wannamaker
did take from same one pair of men's shoes."
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