. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . ty to the charge of assisting inthe sacking of Athens, is described as follows by a 37thInd. soldier: The sucker had evidently been at a drug store.He was tall and slender, and had dressed himself in atine pair of cloth pants, a vest and boots, and a stripedpigeon-tailed coat far too big for him at the shoulders,but too short, the tails of the coat only coming to hiswaist. He also wore a silk stove pipe hat, aroundwhich he had wrapped one end of a richly-color
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. History of the Thirty-seventh regiment of Indiana infantry volunteers; its organization, campaigns, and battles--Sept. '61-Oct. '64 . ty to the charge of assisting inthe sacking of Athens, is described as follows by a 37thInd. soldier: The sucker had evidently been at a drug store.He was tall and slender, and had dressed himself in atine pair of cloth pants, a vest and boots, and a stripedpigeon-tailed coat far too big for him at the shoulders, but too short, the tails of the coat only coming to hiswaist. He also wore a silk stove pipe hat, aroundwhich he had wrapped one end of a richly-coloredribbon, three inches in width, the rest of the bolt ofribbon streaming out behind him as he swaggered andstaggered up the street singing The girl I left behindme. He had started out to make treason odious, andto let the proud rebels of Athens know that while thesoldiers of the Union were always obedient to ordersand deferential to ladies, they could resent insults whenso minded. It is doubtful if any Northern soldierduring the war, did more to offend and disgust Southernladies than did this 19th Ills, soldier: and that was just. INDIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. 20 what he wanted to do. The sacking of Athens has oftenbeen condemned even by men in the North, but whetherit was right or wrong, it had a good effect on the rebels, and was about what those Athenian rebels deserved.For the first year or two our armies dealt entirely tooleniently with them. The 18th Ohio had been left there to guard thetown, protect rebel property, which it most faithfullydid. While doing this they were insulted in almostevery conceivable way, even tired upon by citizens fromhouses that soldiers were guarding. News was sent to alarge rebel force to come and kill and capture theirprotectors. After Athens was looted, no other Southerntown mistreated any of the Regiments of TurchinsBrigade. Southerners simply called them Turchinsthieves. The Nineteenth Illinois Regiment did not do all theplundering that was do