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The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Outrages committed by the "Grand Army" in Fairfax county. (search)
s stolen by them, but this has since been restored to him, having been taken from the haversack of one of the killed on the battlefield of the 21st. I forgot to mention that the residence of Capt. M. D. Ball, at the Court-House, was made subject to their especial venom and vandalism. After destroying most of his goods, the residue were put up at auction and sold for mere nominal prices — the piano for two dollars, and beds for fifty cents. Nor did our merchants escape. The stores of E. R. Ford and John R. Taylor suffered most. The loss of the former is estimated at $500, of the latter at $1,500. I have thus hastily given a few of the cases along the line of march of the Hessians through this county, to give an idea of the sufferings and loss of our people, and to exhibit to a Christian world the nature of the war being now waged by a so-called Christian President against a people who are acting on the defensive and fighting for the liberty of themselves, their families and