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The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1862., [Electronic resource] 10 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 5 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 27, 1862., [Electronic resource] 5 3 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 2 Browse Search
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874. 4 0 Browse Search
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.) 4 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 3: The Decisive Battles. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 5, 1862., [Electronic resource] 4 4 Browse Search
Daniel Ammen, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.2, The Atlantic Coast (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 21. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 3 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
on a plundering expedition, and summoned into the presence of the Colonel, this officer not only did not deny the charge, but coolly remarked that "war always made plunder free." The Col., who is much of a gentleman, looked ashamed, but did not, perhaps dared not, even rebuke his subordinate. Isaac Jones and his neighbor, Mr. Watts, have remained at home; yet the vandals stole, often in broad day light and in the presence of their families, horses, mules, carts, pigs, lambs, and poultry. Mr. Read remained at home with a sick wife and a child not over two weeks old, and yet about forty Zouaves came one night and demanded, and took lodging in his house, though, so far as I am informed, they offered no personal violence to the family. Mr. Algernon Whiting, though a private citizen, was at home when they came to his house about daybreak and took him a prisoner, and burnt his house and furniture. Let me tell your correspondent, however honest he may be, that the presence of a famil