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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Released from Confinement. (search)
Retaliation.
It appears, from a correspondent's letter to the Examiner, that the dwelling-house of the late Major John Seddon was burned by order of Butler as a retaliation for the burning of the dwelling of Montgomery Blair by our men in Maryland. Mrs. Seddon, the widow of Major Seddon, with five very young children, two of them very sick at the time, was driven from her house in the night, barely enough time being given to gather up a small supply of clothing for them.
The deed was done by a party of men who came up the Rappahannock in three gunboats, on the 2d instant, and who left the following order with the manager of the estate:
"August 2, 1864.
"This property, which has frequently been in possession of the Union forces, and always been respected, is now destroyed in retaliation for the destruction of the property of Hon. Montgomery Blair by the Confederate forces in their recent raid near Washington City. "By order of Major-General Butler."
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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Navy register. (search)