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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 16 (search)
less form of that child — followed her trembling steps out of the hall with a dead babe in her arms, wending her way to other starving, perhaps dying, ones at home — surely they would have offered up urgent and sincere prayers for peace, instead of the savage cry for war and blood. And this is but one of ten thousand cases with which our city abounds. Hessian vandalism. Here is what Thos. F. Meagher, of the 69th New York Regiment, says about the vandalism of the Federal troops at Germantown, when on their march toward Manassas: "That house is on fire," Father O'Reilly, our chaplain, hurriedly observed, as he whipped his horse up beside the Colonel. The words had scarcely fallen from his lips when a round mass of black smoke rolled out of the windows of the house and buried it in darkness. Another moment, the red flames were leaping through the smoke, and the crackling of timbers, pierced and rifted with the fire, was heard distinctly above the tramp and tumult of