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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Brutality of the enemy while in Stafford — murder of a man and his mother. (search)
ndence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Stafford Co., Va., July 6, 1863. During the last invasion of Stafford county, Va., by the vandal hordes of Burnside and Hooker, some of the deepest tragedies were enacted, which our Southern papers ought to hold up before the eyes of indignant humanity in their most glaring colors. Time and space will not allow me to mention all; but one or two instances I will notice to show what the poor, suffering people have had to endure. Some time about Christmas a poor, laboring man named Shackleford, with a large and helpless family dependent on his exertions, was working at a neighbor's, when, seeing some desperadoes pass in the direction of his home, he hurried there to protect his wife and helpless little ones. He found the villains busily engaged in searching and stealing everything valuable he owned. At first he expostulated; but they were deaf to every remonstrance, and listening to no argument, he tried force, and, seizing an axe, ordere