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22 Annapolis, Md. Saturday, April 16th. 1864 Helped Adjutant Kendall to make out an Roster of the Regimental officers. Lieutenant Johnson A. Cornwall, of Company D, reported for duty this evaning, having just returned from home. Considerable excitement is manifested here over the report, in the morning papers, of the massacre, by the Rebel soldiers, at Fort Pillow. "It is said: "both blacks and whites were bayonetted, shot and sabred and even dead bodies were horribly mutilated: children 7 and 8 years of age and several women were killed. Immediately upon surrender the rebels commenced an indiscriminate butchery of whites and blacks. The dead and wounded negroes
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22 Annapolis, Md. Saturday, April 16th. 1864 Helped Adjutant Kendall to make out an Roster of the Regimental officers. Lieutenant Johnson A. Cornwall, of Company D, reported for duty this evaning, having just returned from home. Considerable excitement is manifested here over the report, in the morning papers, of the massacre, by the Rebel soldiers, at Fort Pillow. "It is said: "both blacks and whites were bayonetted, shot and sabred and even dead bodies were horribly mutilated: children 7 and 8 years of age and several women were killed. Immediately upon surrender the rebels commenced an indiscriminate butchery of whites and blacks. The dead and wounded negroes
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