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The Daily Dispatch: March 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
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 them against their wish. They next came to the residence of Col Richard L. Claybrook, and arrived at the yard gate before the inmates of the house were aware of it. His daughter (a girl of sixteen) begged her father to conceal himself in the house, while she would meet the invaders. She procured her father's pistol, and met them at the door with it cocked. They asked her what she meant by meeting them with a cocked pistol? She replied that she understood they were in the habit of insulting ladies wherever they had been, and she stood there ready to defend herself and sister to the last gasp, and the first man who entered that door she would send him into eternity with all of his sins upon his head. This decided, cool piece of bravery convinced them that it was dangerous to advance farther — so they made a hasty retreat. Lyne.