...cted by the engineer corps, and, I am told, would have cost fifty thousand dollars North. Recollecting the gross outrages which I alluded to above as being perpetrated upon Colonel Streight by the " Romans ," our troops, as soon as they learned that the town was to be abandoned and a portion of it burned, resolved to lay Rome in ashes in revenge for insults offered to our prisoners. General Corse, how...