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The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Brutality. (search)
Brutality. --Evidences of the brutal proceedings of the Yankees in Culpeper county accumulate daily. The latest case reported is that of Miss Ella Slaughter, an accomplished young lady, who was grossly insulted by a soldier, when she drew a pistol and commanded him to leave her presence. The ruffian immediately took his departure, but soon afterward returned with an officer and a file of men, who arrested Miss S. and imprisoned her in the county jail, where she remained at last accounts subjected to the fare and treatment of the most hardened criminal. The high- handed deeds of Butler in New Orleans will hardly bear comparison with the atrocities of Pope and his men in Northern Virginia.
The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
dent and his Cabinet to cajole even those who are most willing to be deceived into the belief that the slightest advance has been made in a work which has already cost close on £200,000,000. To confess that although but one hundred and fifty miles from Washington, Richmond still stands intact, is to confess the most utter powerlessness to reduce to subjection a Confederacy whose land frontier alone extends many hundreds of miles.--To confess an inability to conquer the neighboring State of Virginia is by implication to admit a similar inability to effect the conquest of a series of States. In fine, to be obliged to admit that, after the lapse of more than twelve months, and with an army of almost incredible magnitude, it has been found impossible to advance more than twenty miles from the sea coast, is to confess that no space of time, and with no armies which even the Federal States can bring into the field, can the vast area of the Southern Confederacy be overrun, much less it
The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1862., [Electronic resource], Affairs on James river. (search)
a, Texas, and Arkansas, are directed to seize and use any property, real or personal, belonging to the inhabitants of this Confederacy, which may be necessary or convenient for their several commands, and no provision is made for any compensation to the owners of private property thus seized and appropriated by the military commanders of the enemy: III. And whereas, by General Order Number Eleven, issued on the 23d July, 1862, by Maj-Gen. Pope, commanding the forces of the enemy in Northern Virginia, it is ordered that all "commanders of any army corps, divisions, brigades, and detached commands, will proceed immediately to arrest all disloyal male citizens within their lines or within their reach in rear of their respective commands. Such as are willing to take the oath of allegiance to the United States and will furnish sufficient security for its observance, shall be permitted to remain at their homes and pursue in good faith their accustomed avocations. Those who refuse shal