Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Major Gen. Lovell” in article 24 of The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1862., [Electronic resource]:

... We are not here to war upon unarmed or peaceable persons, and we would deprecate any event compelling us to fire upon the property of inoffensive people. This infamous letter was replied to by Major Gen. Lovell , as follows: When two nations are at war, it has become customary among civilized people "to punish the offence" of an attack by the armed forces of one upon those of the other by a combat wit...
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