Arkansas True Democrat, Little Rock CS
For the True Democrat.
Gen. Curtis, of the U. S. army, having published a card denying that he or his army molested private property in passing through Monroe county, Arkansas—and also, denying that he despoiled the Masonic Lodge in Clarendon—we, therefore, citizens of said county, feeling sensibly the outrage that was perpetrated upon the inhabitants, feel that it is but a sacred duty that we owe to truth and humanity, that he should be held up to the world in his true character. First then, upon his arrival in Clarendon he took up his head quarters in the residence of Maj. Jas. T. Harris, deceased—the house being occupied by the major's family, and that of his son, Capt. C. Harris, thus forcing himself an unwelcomed guest upon said family—using the household and kitchen furniture and feeding himself and staff upon the supplies that had been left for sustenance of these families; and when he left the place, Maj. Harris' carriage and horses were driven into the front yard and four negro wenches placed in the carriage, a white man upon the box, and thus drove off to the army. He directed or permitted every horse and mule to be taken off said plantation—every pound of bacon and every ear of corn—all the table ware that they could place their hands upon—and, in fact, every thing else that Yankee cunning or cupidity could fancy would be of service to them or the loss annoying to the owners; and this is the manner in which every person, man or woman fared who were so unfortunate as to be visited by them. They set fire to and burned to the ground a house in Clarendon belonging to a widow lady (Mrs. McWilliams) after having first plundered it. They broke open the dry good houses in Clarendon and carried off or destroyed every thing they contained. He either directed or permitted his men to force open the Masonic Lodge and remove therefrom the jewels, books, charter and papers belonging to the same. The jewels were tied to the horses bridles as ornaments, and the leaves cut from the Holy Bible belonging to the lodge. He directed or permitted his men to enter the county and circuit court clerk's office and destroyed every paper and record that they could possibly lay their hands upon.

His men went into the front yard of a widow lady (having grown daughters) and made a disgraceful exhibition of their persons. Six or eight of his men went to the residence of a respectable lady (the widow of a true southern soldier, who died in the service,) and attempted to commit an outrage upon her person, and were only deterred from carrying into execution their diabolical intentions, by her drawing a repeater and firing upon them. These are but a few of the outrages that were committed upon peaceful inhabitants of our country.

If the truth of these statements be questioned they can be substantially proven by more than one thousand witnesses.
H. D. Green,
P. O. Thweatt,
B. F. Kerr,
Wm. S. Whitley,
W. H. Thweatt,
C. N. Roberts,
Wm. B. Nichols,
Little Rock, Sept. 18, 1862.
Half is not told.