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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
the officers and many of his men, the others effecting their escape by secreting themselves in a cellar. The men they immediately paroled. They soon left here, directing their course towards Heathsville where a number of conscripts had already collected, awaiting the arrival of the enrolling officers. They dashed into the little village and captured all of the conscripts; after paroling them, they broke into the Court-House and destroyed the records. They next visited the house of Mr. James Harding, living in the neighborhood, arrested the old man, and endeavored to make him take the oath of allegiance. This he positively refused to do. They then broke into the house where his bacon was stowed and carried off all of it. They then left, taking with them the most of his negroes. They next visited Mr. James Smith, arrested him and, after destroying everything of value about the house, left, taking Mr. Smith with them, and forcing all his negroes, eighty-four in number, to follow t