Excerpt from Official Report Relative to the Conduct of Federal Troops in Western Louisiana, During the Invasions of 1863 and 1864
It might have been anticipated that the exactions of'a'hostie ar'my, occupying a rich agricultural country, would fall with peculiar severity on'its inhabitants; that the foraging parties Would not'nicely balance bet-ween their military rights, and the right of property in the tor; and that many acts of hardship and oppression would Occur from the exercise of unrestrained power. A just appreciation of the evils' incident to a state of war, might have taught the reflecting citizen to brave such hardships with becoming equanimity; and the reflection that invading armies are not always entirely free' from ti 0 presence of the dissolute' and the depraved, might have led him to anticipate some in le attempt upon his purse, or some aggravated assault upon his person. But the outrages committed by the enemy did not flow fromthe ordi;, nary sources of the calamities of modern warfare, as tho'fa'cts embraced, in' our narrative-will'fully demonstrate.
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