G.A.R. Men Hounded
January 26, 1895
Summary
White men seek blood after “colored” man gets away with trespassing in a white community.
Transcription
G.A.R. Men Hounded.
Not satisfied with the innocent blood of Tally Whitehurst upon their hands, the inhuman murders of that should-be-God-forsaken town, like some wild and ferocious beast, after having tasted blood, looked about for some other human being to devour.
A short while ago they set upon an old colored Grand Army man named Robinson, who to day would numbered with the dead had he not received a timely warning and escaped, and now a wanderer in the cold, cold world. It seems that his only offence was that of appearing upon the streets of that sainted town in his Grand Army uniform. For daring to do such a thing his life must pay the penalty.
Robinson’s house was broken into at night by the bloodthirsty white hyenas, and he would have been slain in the very presence of his family had he not made tracks a few moments before. Finding him gone they demanded that hated uniform and springing at it like beasts of prey tore it into shreds, and abused his family shamefully because they could not tell Robinson’s whereabouts.
Other members of Lincoln Post, G.A.R. were bunted up and their lives threatened. All this in a supposed enlightened and Christian community, and not a voice or hand raised to stay the bloody carnival.
Are there no many men in Thibodaux? Cowardly assassins should hold no place in any brave and honest man’s respect, but should be treated as they deserve – like brutes.
It has been some three months since Tally Whitehurst was cowardly murdered, yet there has not been a single effort put forth by the authorities to bring the guilty perpetrators to punishment. All of whom it is said, are well known. These and many other outrages perpetrated upon the colored people in the South is positive proof that Negroes are lynched for other causes that the outraging of women as they claim.
Can any one wonder at the non progressiveness of the South when such conditions are allowed to exist and murderers go unwhipped of justice?
Not satisfied with the innocent blood of Tally Whitehurst upon their hands, the inhuman murders of that should-be-God-forsaken town, like some wild and ferocious beast, after having tasted blood, looked about for some other human being to devour.
A short while ago they set upon an old colored Grand Army man named Robinson, who to day would numbered with the dead had he not received a timely warning and escaped, and now a wanderer in the cold, cold world. It seems that his only offence was that of appearing upon the streets of that sainted town in his Grand Army uniform. For daring to do such a thing his life must pay the penalty.
Robinson’s house was broken into at night by the bloodthirsty white hyenas, and he would have been slain in the very presence of his family had he not made tracks a few moments before. Finding him gone they demanded that hated uniform and springing at it like beasts of prey tore it into shreds, and abused his family shamefully because they could not tell Robinson’s whereabouts.
Other members of Lincoln Post, G.A.R. were bunted up and their lives threatened. All this in a supposed enlightened and Christian community, and not a voice or hand raised to stay the bloody carnival.
Are there no many men in Thibodaux? Cowardly assassins should hold no place in any brave and honest man’s respect, but should be treated as they deserve – like brutes.
It has been some three months since Tally Whitehurst was cowardly murdered, yet there has not been a single effort put forth by the authorities to bring the guilty perpetrators to punishment. All of whom it is said, are well known. These and many other outrages perpetrated upon the colored people in the South is positive proof that Negroes are lynched for other causes that the outraging of women as they claim.
Can any one wonder at the non progressiveness of the South when such conditions are allowed to exist and murderers go unwhipped of justice?
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Upper Left Quadrant
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Cord Fox
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“G.A.R. Men Hounded,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed January 18, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/91.