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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
rary of the Superintendent was rifled of many of its most valuable and portable volumes, and the portraits of ex-Governors McDowell, Wise and Letcher, which occupied prominent positions in it, were removed. The shoe shop was despoiled of all its leather and unfinished work, and the shoe lasts, implements and benches were then wantonly destroyed. The bell attached to the public clock was taken down and removed, and the beautiful bronze copy of Houdon's Washington, by the gifted and lamented Hubard, after being mutilated in the effort to take it from its pedestal, was carried away. It has since been reported that the enemy, being unable to transport this work of art through the mountain passes of Virginia, finally broke it to pieces and destroyed it. In fact, the work of desolation was complete, and its recital gives permanence to the record of infamy which has immortalized the United States army of Western Virginia and its brutal commander, General David Hunter. General Smith, i