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The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], The armies below Richmond. (search)
arm is very heavy. In burying their dead the Yankees dig trenches, thirty feet long, and about eighteen inches deep, in the lot surrounding the dwelling, and there deposit the corpses, each wrapped in a blanket, and with no coffin. Mr. Savage's estate has already been desolated by the enemy, and this vast cemetery, in the very shadow of his house, will by no means increase its attractions. Among the citizens who have been sent by the Yankees down below as prisoners are Dr. Vest, Miles Ambler, (formerly of Richmond,) and the two Messrs, Fisher. These gentlemen were all "disloyal" to the "flag." The lines of telegraph extending to the different Federal camps, some of which still remain, display much ingenuity of construction. Several coils of telegraph wire, left behind on the retreat, were to have been used probably in continuing the line of communication to the "rebel Capital." A letter found on the battle-ground, addressed to a Federal soldier, admits that "McCle