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The Daily Dispatch: April 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 17 (search)
t of the Yankees, and was the only man who did. On the floor of Mr. H. E. Conway's house, they poured as a mixture blackberry wine and ink. One of the means of torture inflicted upon those citizens who were left there, was to place them between a threatened fire in front and rear, with orders from one party to run and the other to bait. At Aquia Church they broke and destroyed everything. From a Mr. Griffin, near this place, they stole $300 in specie. They carried off one person, a Mr. Chewning, of Lancaster, who had that day reached the C. H., to see his son, a member of the Lancaster Cavalry. When taken Mr. C. told them that he was a rebel in every house of the word, and defied, them to do their worst. We came near forgetting one of the chief incidents of this raid, which was the presence of and conspicuous part taken by a buck negro who, with loaded and cocked pistol, demanded free ingress and egress to every part of Mr. Rouzie Conway's private dwelling, being in searc