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The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Yankee outrages in Nansemond and Isle of Wight. (search)
vandals are roaming the counties of Nansemond and Isle of Wight, stealing negroes, bacon, and horses, and arresting every citizen whose loyalty to the Confederate States is known. The following gentlemen have been arrested, some of them manacled and dragged off to the Rip Raps: James Dillard, E. Bev. Hunter, James M. Holland, Wm. Lawrence, Alexander Ashburn, Robert R. Pinner, Addison Ashburn, Capt, Charles Holland, J. Y. Council, M. Norfleet, Joseph Y. Council, Charles Sumner, and David P. Wright. The two latter were placed in irons and marched off under a file of Dutch Yankees from Pennsylvania. Mr. Sumner is charged with the murder of a notorious free negro, named David Sawyer, under the following circumstances: The Yankees have employed for some time past a lot of free negroes, who scour the country, tamper with slaves, and use every means to entice them from their owners. A few days since, upon going into his field, Mr. Sumner discovered several of his slaves in
The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], Civilian prisoners at the Rip-Raps. (search)
, handed us by a returned prisoner. Nearly all are farmers, and our informant says they have been shamefully treated; those from Gates county, N. C., were put in irons, and other instances of barbarity are mentioned. They earnestly beg that our Government will at once take steps to have them released from captivity: Adolphus Goddin, A. H. Hankins, Henley L. Taylor, and John W. Jones, of James City county, Va.; Hugh Williams, of New Kent county, Va.; James M. McIntire, of York county, Va.; Thomas J. Blake, of Henrico county, Va.; David P. Wright, Charles R. Gumner, and William R. Lawrence, of Nansemond county, Va.; Charles Holland, of Franklin Depot, Va.; Capt. Duck, of Isle of Wight county, Va.; Rev. R. J. Graves, of Orange county, N. C.; James A. Sparkman, Thomas J. Sparkman, Richard H. Manning, James Wiggins, and James H. Freeman, of Gates county, N. C. Two recent deaths are reported: Lieut. Council, of Nansemond county, Va., and Thos. A. Jordan, of Gates county, N. C.