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The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
n was thoroughly pillaged. Not only were useful and ornamental articles taken from houses, and horses, harness, and carriages from barns, but stores were entered and sacked, and, with the "apple jack" discovered and the whiskey dealt out by order, not a few were dead drunk, and many more partially phrensies. When we moved a considerable number had to be urged almost at the point of the bayonet, whilst others were loaded into ambulances and baggage-wagons. The division went forward to Hamilton, a little town of from three to four hundred souls. But instead of marching into the town, we were encamped in a corn-field just outside of it. The order was, that two or three men be sent out to for age provisions for each company, and no others allowed in town. But, whether by open disobedience or by the connivance of those who should have enforced the order, the town was soon, in camp language, "cleaned out, " even more completely than Williamston. Not only were houses sacked, and eve