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The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], Scenes in a town at the embarkation of a raid. (search)
abusive language, and threatening her with their axes. A part of the negroes also forced Mrs. W. H Stephenson to open her husband's store which they robbed of goods amounting to the value of about $5,000. After a long, and, to many of our citizens, a sleepless night, morning came. Soon after dawn the army was all astir and preparing for departure — and now began our trials. A general system of plunder and robbery was Inaugurated. The stores of Cowper & Jordan, J P Thomas, and C C Chalmers, druggist, were literally sacked. Every horse, mule, carriage and buggy remaining in town were sent to the whart. Every negro, bond or free, old or young, male or female, who were willing to accompany their false Yankee friends, was moving towards the steamers with all the baggage they could possibly convey. The number of blacks carried off by this party was about 60, one third of whom were free, leaving many of us without a cook or other servant and the supply exhausted. The store of C