The latter were generally reasonable, and if so they were granted; but the complaints were not always, or even often, well founded.

Two instances will mark the general character.

First: the officer who commanded at Memphis immediately after the city fell into the hands of the National troops had ordered one of the churches of the city to be opened to the soldiers.

Army chaplains were authorized to occupy the pulpit.

Second: at the beginning of the war the Confederate Congress had passed a law confiscating all property of "alien enemies" at the South, including the debts of Southerners to Northern men.