By 1865, bloodhounds were seen as a weapon by which the planter class oppressed not only slaves, but white unionists and northern prisoners of war. The savagery of the bloodhounds illustrated what Northerners considered to be the true brutality of the culture of the Southern planter class.
In the war’s second year, newspapers in Iowa began to discuss the new use of bloodhounds in the Southern states as literal instruments of control over Southern Unionists. Dogs were indeed deployed by the Confederate government against army deserters and those men who resisted the conscription. To the author of one article in the Burlington Hawk-Eye in the spring of 1862, the “iron rule” of the Confederacy was epitomized by the use of “the blood-hounds of rebellion” against Southern Unionists. A year later, the same paper would again regale its readers with the use of bloodhounds in the attainment of “white flesh for Jefferson Davis.” In 1864, Iowans would have read in the Hawk-Eye of the role of the deployment of dogs in rebel attempts to eradicate loyalty to the Constitution in North Carolina. When national press provided sensational stories of the …show more content…
In the 1865 account of Willard Glazer, he describes Parker as one of 48 escapees apprehended in a matter of day, most of whom by hounds. He not only relates the mortality of Parker’s wounds, but the cause of Kentucky cavarlyman’s disability, apprehended in the same week as Parker and he too had surrendered before the dogs were let loose on him. An officer named Whitney writing in his diary from Camp Sorghum at the same time, supports Glazer’s claim’s assertion the mauling of Parker was not a singular incident, but was rather a common practice taken to an uncommon extreme asserting that many of the apprehended escapees bore dog bites on their
In the war’s second year, newspapers in Iowa began to discuss the new use of bloodhounds in the Southern states as literal instruments of control over Southern Unionists. Dogs were indeed deployed by the Confederate government against army deserters and those men who resisted the conscription. To the author of one article in the Burlington Hawk-Eye in the spring of 1862, the “iron rule” of the Confederacy was epitomized by the use of “the blood-hounds of rebellion” against Southern Unionists. A year later, the same paper would again regale its readers with the use of bloodhounds in the attainment of “white flesh for Jefferson Davis.” In 1864, Iowans would have read in the Hawk-Eye of the role of the deployment of dogs in rebel attempts to eradicate loyalty to the Constitution in North Carolina. When national press provided sensational stories of the …show more content…
In the 1865 account of Willard Glazer, he describes Parker as one of 48 escapees apprehended in a matter of day, most of whom by hounds. He not only relates the mortality of Parker’s wounds, but the cause of Kentucky cavarlyman’s disability, apprehended in the same week as Parker and he too had surrendered before the dogs were let loose on him. An officer named Whitney writing in his diary from Camp Sorghum at the same time, supports Glazer’s claim’s assertion the mauling of Parker was not a singular incident, but was rather a common practice taken to an uncommon extreme asserting that many of the apprehended escapees bore dog bites on their