23. Private citizens are no longer murdered, enslaved, or carried off to distant parts, and the inoffensive individual is as little disturbed in his private relations as the commander of the hostile troops can afford to grant in the overruling demands of a vigorous war.
Roswell women?
34. As a general rule, the property belonging to churches, to hospitals, or other establishments of an exclusively charitable character, to establishments of education, or foundations for the promotion of knowledge, whether public schools, universities, academies of learning or observatories, museums of the fine arts, or of a scientific character-such property is not to be considered public property in the sense of paragraph 31; but it may be taxed or used when the public service may require it.
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The year of 1865 might well be the year of years in the history of the church. This year would see the second largest membership in the church's history, its building destroyed in the war between the states and the ultimate disbanding of the mother church at the original site which which would bring about the union of the mother church and the daughter church which would result in the continuation of the original church. In the year of 1865, the total membership of the church was 213. There were 35 white members and 178 black or colored members. It was in 1865 that the soldiers of the northern army (Sherman's troops) tore down the building to make a bridge across the Lower Three Runs Creek to replace the one that the confederate soldiers had destroyed in their effort to slow the progress of the union forces. Material not used for the bridge is said to have been burned. After the destruction of the church building, the congregation met outdoors until 1868 when the site was disbanded and the original congregation merged with the Tom's Branch congregation and formed the Lower Three Runs of today.
47. Crimes punishable by all penal codes, such as arson, murder, maiming, assaults, highway robbery, theft, burglary, fraud, forgery, and rape, if committed by an American soldier in a hostile country against its inhabitants, are not only punishable as at home, but in all cases in which death is not inflicted the severer punishment shall be preferred.
From Sherman's memoirs:
After finishing our lunch, as we passed out of the dining room,
General Blair asked me, if I did not want some saddle-blankets, or
a rug for my tent, and, leading me into the hall to a space under
the stairway, he pointed out a pile of carpets which had also been
sent up from Charleston for safety. After our headquarter-wagons
got up, and our bivouac was established in a field near by, I sent
my orderly (Walter) over to General Blair, and he came back
staggering under a load of carpets, out of which the officers and
escort made excellent tent-rugs, saddle-cloths, and blankets.