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The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
Captain Todd and the New York press. --The New York Herald contains the following hit at the Times: The "little villains" of the New York Times are quickreports that the most brutal of the officers in charge of our prisoners were Captain Todd, Mrs. Lincoln's brother, and Gen. Winder, the brother of the Winder now in confinement at Fort Lafayette. Todd is such a brute that he would kick the dead bodies of our men, and call them damned Abolitionists. So depraved was this wretch that the rebel officers themselves preferred charges against Todd, and had detailed him to other duty." This news concerning Todd involves alleged atrocities on hiTodd involves alleged atrocities on his part which are too revolting to be true. We cannot believe them. They are malicious inventions. But why should the Times take such pains in holding this rebel, TTodd, in this infamous light of a brutal Sepoy, before the world as "the brother of Mrs. Lincoln?" Is she to be held responsible for the misfortune of having a brother