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The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], Brig-Gen. W. H. V. Lee (search)
ed in a similar manner, and for such like alleged offence, and still another had his brains mercilessly knocked out because he did not wish to give up his horse to these fiend robbers. Vallene, a village in Orange county, is reported burned. The citizens refused to permit the thieving scoundrels to take whatever they wanted without resistance, and for that were compelled to see their houses laid in ruins. The expedition which left New Albany yesterday morning is in command of Col. Meriweather, of an Indiana regiment of volunteers, and was joined last night by Capt. McGinnis, who had a small force under him. It is to be hoped that these thieves will be caught and executed as murderers and common pirater. War has enough of horror and bloodshed without the heartless brutality which has characterized the march of these men, and we believe that a swift and terrible retribution is close at hand. It is hardly possible for them to escape out of the State, and, if caught, the Hoosi