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The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], War Incidents. (search)
were perfect devils, and would fight harder than the men, if they had a chance." Patterson's Thieves. The Virginian says: Patterson's army of plunderers have for the most part disappeared from the adjoining county of Jefferson. About five thousand were remaining at Harper's Ferry, two or three days ago, and may be there yet. Their object appears to be nothing more than robbery and the destruction of private property. At Charlestown they encamped on the fine farm of Colonel Baxton Davenport, James L. Ranson, F. W. Drew and Mr. Burns, and destroyed the crops and much other property of those gentlemen Sheep pastures, pig pens and hen roosts suffered not a little. In town they robbed jewelry stoves and committed other valiant acts of like character. Seventeen regiments of this army of vandals, whose times of service had expired, have within a few days past departed for home, notwithstanding. Patterson made an imploring appeal to them to remain. They have taken off fou