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The Daily Dispatch: September 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee Doings in the Valley . (search)
Yankee Doings in the Valley.
By a private letter, dated August 25th, received by a gentleman in this city from Charlestown, we learn that the Yankees, under Sheridan, have spread desolation throughout Jefferson county.
Says the writer: "Our wealthiest farmers are stripped of everything.
Mr. Richard Washington, for instance, had everything he had taken from him; even the ladies' clothes were torn to pieces.
Mr. Robert W. Baylor has been served the same way; also, Messrs. Bushrod W. Herbe aid long enough, however, to take five horses and to break up the furniture.
In the town, they had not commenced their work of destruction when they were chased out.--Many think that the burning of Chambersburg was the salvation of this place.
Sheridan has sent North, Mr. Peyton Brown, Mr. George Saddler, Mr. William Henson and Mr. Harrison Anderson."
Mr. John S. Robertson, of Martinsburg, who came to Richmond on the outbreak of the war, leaving his family, recently returned home on a vis