Broadside: "Bush-whackers, BEWARE!"

Authors

John McNeil
Joseph T. Tatum

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BUSH-WHACKERS, BEWARE!

HEAD QUARTERS DIST. of the FRONTIER

Fort Smith, Ark., Nov. 17, 1863.

The organized forces of the enemy having been driven out of the country in our rear, and there being none on our lines of Telegraphic and Mail Communications, except that common foe of mankind — the guerilla and bush-whacker — and the cutting of telegraph wires being now the act of these men alone — men who have no claim to be treated as soldiers, and are entitled to none of the rights accorded by the laws of wars to honorable belligerents, it is hereby ordered that, hereafter, in every instance, the cutting of the telegraph wire shall be considered the deed of bush-whackers, and for every such act some bush-whacking prisoner shall have withdrawn from him that mercy which induced the holding of him as a prisoner, and he shall be hung at the post where the wire is cut; and as many bush-whackers shall be so hung as there are places where the wire is cut.

The nearest house to the place where the wire is cut, if the property of a disloyal man, and within ten miles, shall be burned.

By Command of Brig. Gen'l John McNeil.

JOS. T. TATUM,

Act'g Ass't Adj't General

Creation Date

11-11-1863

City

Fort Smith

State/Province

Arkansas

Country

USA

Creator Life Dates

1813–1891

Keywords

bush-whackers, bushwhackers, bush-whacker, bushwhacker, sabotage, 080619-72, broadside, print, woodblock, woodblock type, warning, beware, guerrillas, guerrilla warfare, martial law, frontier arkansas, John McNeil, Joseph T. Tatum

Resource Identifier

080619-72

Date Digital

10-15-2025

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

History | Military History | Political History | Social History | United States History

Publisher

United States of America (original), Wofford College (digital)

Format (medium)

Manuscript

Format (IMT)

image/jpeg

Language

English

Digitization Specifications

800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner using Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; Original converted to JPEG with Irfan View software.

Source

The original, accession number 080619-72, from which this digital representation is taken, is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

Recommended Citation

McNeil, John and Tatum, Joseph T., "Broadside: "Bush-whackers, BEWARE!"" (1863). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 342.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/342

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