Purdy, Tennessee Archives

Chicago Times, March 31, 1862:

Purdy Court-House is now full of Union men of that lace. The latter are fearful of having their houses and all their property destroyed. Squads of rebel soldiers are already seizing all their provisions and everything that can be of use to the army. Owners of cotton are particularly alarmed. For their benefit all the transports returning to Paducah are ordered to take down any cotton that may be brought to the river bank east of Corinth. A man named Morris, one of the Jessie Scouts, was hung at Savannah on Sunday [March 30] for horse stealing, and other depredations, from private citizens thereabout.