...e outrage being perpetrated upon his soldiers, and informed him that unless the practice was stopped, retaliation in kind would be adopted by the Government of the United States. Being assured by General Ewell , commanding Confederate forces on the north side of the James, that an answer to this communication, if any, would be sent by 11 o'clock A. M., to-day and it being now past 12 (noon) and no answer ha...