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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], The voice of a Virginia mother. (search)
in perusing the following extract of a letter from one of the best and noblest of Virginia ladies. The writer had suffered terribly from outrages of the enemy — Hunter's followers having desolated her home — but her spirit and her loyalty rise with her afflictions, and she utters the sentiments and the devotion of true patriotisand their own race. "I am now among the tens of thousands of our mourning land who have been robbed of everything on earth by the enemies of God and man. General Hunter, in his retreat by this place, ordered the plunder of my house, and was with difficulty restrained by General Averill from burning it and every other buildingutality as I really never had any possible conception of, until I saw it exhibited by the diabolical miscreants that I cannot dignify with the name of men. If General Hunter or his Government think such scenes tend to subjugation, they have in this, as in everything else, slandered and defamed human nature; for life itself would b