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The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five hundred dollars reward. (search)
of his nativity, to the homes of his neighbors; friends and relatives, which they plundered and desolated. As a sort of return to Governor Letcher for the kindness he received at his hands and his generous board, he drew a sketch of his house in Lexington before it was burned under Hunter's order, and another of it while burning, for Harper's Weekly. Another case of especial interest which has recently occurred is that of young William B. Macgill, son of Dr. Macgill, formerly of Hagerstown, Maryland, but now of Richmond. This young gentleman was a private in the First Maryland Confederate cavalry, and was captured by the Yankees near the State line after the burning of Chambersburg. He is called a "rebel house-burner;" and he, too, has been put in jail as a felon, to be tried. Young Macgill is a regular soldier in the service of the Confederacy, and whatever he did was under the orders of his superior officers, and that, too, in the burning of a Yankee town, in part of retalia