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The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], Yankees in Greenbrier. (search)
Yankees in Greenbrier. Parties from Greenbrier county state that the Yankee cavalry made a raid into that county on Friday last, and succeeded in capturing about one dozen wagons belonging to our troops. They also fired the barn of Col. Samuel McClung, destroying his entire crop of wheat, amounting to several thousand bushels.
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Yankee raid into Southwestern Virginia. (search)
ercept them, but was about one hour too late, he having no cavalry. They seemed to be in no particular hurry, but took it quite leisurely, stopping to eat and sleep as they saw fit. Is it not remarkable that, with all the force we have in this section, these marauders should not have encountered a single picket or been halted at all? The fact was, the route pursued by them was open to the bridge. Another party of 250 cavalry kept on in the direction of Lewisburg, burning Austin Handley's elegant mansion, near town, Col. Samuel McClung's barn, and firing Bugger's fine manufacturing mill. They belted on reaching the top of the hill overlooking Lewisburg, and, discovering our troops there, beat a hasty retreat. Their intention was to burn the place, at least they so declared. These troops were from Malden, in the Kanawha Valley, and, if I am not deceived, this demonstration is but a prelude to something of the "same sort," but of a more imposing character, not far off. A Ribel.
The Daily Dispatch: November 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankees in Greenbrier (search)
nto their keeping. They also buried the dead on the field, which Averill had not stopped to do. There were 34 Confederate and 60 Yankee soldiers left unburied on the field. The Staunton Spectator gives some account of the outrages of the Yankees in Greenbrier. It says: At Lewisburg they arrested Messrs. James Withrow, Patrick Beirne, and James N. Montgomery, but released them before they left. They took away a great many servants. Among the persons who lost in this way were Col. Samuel McClung, Col. Joel McPherson, and Mrs. Patsy Mathews. --They entered and robbed the stores of Messrs. Johnson E. Bell and William H. Montgomery. They entered houses, broke open trunks, and robbed ladies of their clothes and jewelry. They robbed Mrs. S. S. Smith and her daughters, living half a mile cast of the town, of all the clothes they had. They burned the barn and out houses of Mr. James Calwell living at the bridge three miles east of town, and set fire to the brick dwelling, but it w