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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Attack on Gloucester Point. (search)
Stolen property restored --Several months since, during an Abolition raid into Jefferson county, Va., a party, headed by a Michigan Major, entered the house of Col. Washington, and after giving it a thorough ransacking. carried off the plunder they did not destroy. The leader of the party made himself conspicuous in his attachment to a highly valued family relict in the shape of an or final picture, by Stuart. of Gen. Washington, which his descendent did not have time to secrete before the arrival of the vandals. He boxed it up and sent it to his home in the North as a prize captured by himself in honorable warfare. Afterwards one of our Generals, operating in Tennessee, captured the thief, and he was sent to this city. When his arrival was noticed the owner of the picture applied for his detention on the ground of his having committed grand larceny. An arrangement was finally effected between the Government and the accused by which the latter bound himself to restore the