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The Daily Dispatch: October 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], One of the Reserves killed. (search)
The murder of David Creigh. The fate of the late Mr. David Creigh, who was executed, by the orders of General Hunter, near Brownsburg, is one of the darkest and most horrible of the tragedies of this war. The more we reflect upon it the more does it assume the plain, unmistakable features of a cold-blooded, deliberate, demoniac murder, for which, if justice has not left the earth, the perpetrators will yet be visited with the retribution such a crime deserves. Mr. Creigh was an old man, the son of an Irish gentleman, who settled in Western Virginia, and, by a life of great probity and energy, became one of our most prosperous landholders, and, by his moral worth and excellent character, commanded the respect of the whole community. Mr. Creigh had a large family, who walked in the footsteps of their father, and were not only men of superior intelligence, but remarkable for their exemplary and blameless conduct. One of these gentlemen, Dr. Thomas Creigh, is well known to many of