The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Lincolnism in the Valley.

A clergyman who left Charlestown, Jefferson county, on Saturday week, gives a sad account of the outrages perpetrated by the unprincipled enemy in that locality. He says that no privileges are allowed to anybody but free negroes. The white citizens are not permitted to leave the town, nor will they allow any provisions to be brought to them, declaring their intention to starve the rebels into submission. No respect is paid to female delicacy, and a fiendish officer asked the wife of the gentleman referred to how many grown daughters the had, and when asked the object of his inquiry, said promptly that he intended ‘"to appropriate them to his soldiers!"’

Our loyal citizens are represented to be standing up manfully against the efforts of the Lincoln hirelings to force them to take the oath of allegiance. But three or four, whom they had taken to Fort McHenry had yielded, amongst them Ed. M. Asquith, late collector of the Confederate war tax in Jefferson, and an original Secessionist, was threatened with imprisonment at Tortugas if he refused. Under fear that he would die if sent there, he took the oath, and is now living quietly at his home deeply mortified at his degradation.