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The Daily Dispatch: August 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Loudoun and Fairfax. (search)
Yankees are literally carrying out the recent outrageous orders of General Pope, and that the citizens are being regularly plundered of negroes, stock, and household effects. In many instances families have been deprived of every article of comfort, and of everything in the way of provisions and supplies. All negroes who have heretofore refused to desert their owners voluntarily, are now being forced to leave whether willing or unwilling. Some time since they visited the farm of Mr. Charles F. Berkeley, and compelled one of his negro boys to accompany them to the Federal camp, against his earnest declarations that he desired to remain in the service of his master. --Complaint having been made to Gen. Abercrombie, the boy was immediately returned. The notorious Ceary hearing of the affair, and resolute in his determination to carry out his peculiar mode of war fare in regular and systematic thieving, sent a squad of men to demand the boy, who was ordered to take a favorite mare of