... Here is what Thos. F. Meagher, of the 69th New York Regiment, says about the vandalism of the Federal troops at Germantown, when on their march toward Manassas: "That house is on fire," Father O'Reilly , our chaplain, hurriedly observed, as he whipped his horse up beside the Colonel. The words had scarcely fallen from his lips when a round mass of black smoke rolled out of the windows of the h...