>> EXCERPT ONE. Gen’l Reub “3x” Williams: Warsaw Native. “Three times it was my misfortune to be captured by the rebels during the late attempt to establish a ‘Confederation,’ the cornerstone of which was to be human slavery. The first time I was ‘taken prisoner’. It must be borne in mind that the term used at the beginning of this was, ‘taken prisoner,’ afterwards it was, ‘captured,’ and still later & finally, it was, ‘gobbled’. It was at Dam No. 4, on the Upper Potomac on that morning of December 11th 1861, when we unfortunately fell into the hands of Ashby’s cavalry. ”
>> EXCERPT TWO. “This new theory of Government destroys the property of the South, lays waste her fields, and inaugurates all the horrors of a San Domingo servile insurrection, consigning her citizens to assassinations, and her wives and daughters to pollution and violation, to gratify the lust of half-civilized Africans.” — Stephen F. Hale, letter to the Governor of Kentucky, (December 1860)
