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The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Yankee outrages in Nansemond Isle of Wight . (search)
Yankee outrages in Nansemond and Isle of Wight.
A gentleman direct from the neighborhood informs the Petersburg Express that the Yankee vandals are roaming the counties of Nansemond and Isle of Wight, stealing negroes, bacon, and horses, and arresting every citizen whose loyalty to the Confederate States is known.
The following gentlemen have been arrested, some of them manacled and dragged off to the Rip Raps: James Dillard, E. Bev.
Hunter, James M. Holland, Wm. Lawrence, Alexander Ashburn, Robert R. Pinner, Addison Ashburn, Capt, Charles Holland, J. Y. Council, M. Norfleet, Joseph Y. Council, Charles Sumner, and David P. Wright.
The two latter were placed in irons and marched off under a file of Dutch Yankees from Pennsylvania.
Mr. Sumner is charged with the murder of a notorious free negro, named David Sawyer, under the following circumstances:
The Yankees have employed for some time past a lot of free negroes, who scour the country, tamper with slaves, and us