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The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Malevolent imputation Answered. (search)
Malevolent imputation Answered. Camp-- Nov. 17, 1861. Editors Dispatch: In the Dispatch, of the 14th inst., I find the following paragraph in a letter to the New York Herald, from "Camp Butler, Newport News, Oct. 27th 1861:" "Yesterday afternoon General Phelps sent out a detachment of Company D. First New York, Volunteers, under command of Lieut. ingersoll, to a house belonging to Baker P. Lee, about three miles from camp. For the last month the only occupants of the house have been a poor white woman and three negresses. Some days ago Lee sent a messenger to this white woman, warning her to leave the house, as he purposed to burn it down over her head. The woman was, of course, frightened, and fled in the direction of Back River, and when one of our scouting parties, on Friday last, came to the house, they found one of the negresses in a dying condition, and the other two, being old and diseased, unabled to take care of themselves. Out of feelings of humanity,