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The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
r the Southern war, invoked them each to bring back the head of a Southern rebel. A Southern gentleman traveling on the cars with a body of these ruffians, heard them openly declare that they intended to reduce every woman in Virginia to a fate worse than death before their return. Their conduct, as far as possible, has been in conformity with their threats. Atrocities upon women, at which the blood runs cold, have been committed by these wretches in Alexandria, in Hampton, in Northwestern Virginia. Faithful Southern citizens of the latter section have been torn from their homes, tied hand and foot, and transported to the interior of Ohio. Private property has been destroyed in the most wanton manner; houses have been burned and slaves captured by the hundred; prisoners have been thrust into dungeons and fed on the coarsest food; sometimes beaten with cruel blows, and placed on trial for their lives, to be hung unless the fears of Lincoln for his own people in our hands preve