...ed, and, when the sound was heard, one of the servants ran over and picked it up, and it was thus preserved in the family. The blood-stained and battle-torn little command of Breckinridge reached Lynchburg on the 16th of June. Up to that moment no one in the city had hoped that the place could be saved from Hunter's vandalism by the cordon of boys, cripples and irregular troops which surrounded it, a...