... in six hours, and offered to send Dr. M.'s wife away from there for safety. All seemed surprised that the Confederates did not pursue the Federal army. When our artillery shelled the camp at Westover , at night, all in Mrs. Selden's house retreated into the cellar; but, upon a Yankee officer declaring that if a candle, left burning up stairs, was not put out, he would "blow, the d — d house ...