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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], Outrages of the enemy in Culpeper. (search)
s that had been vacated by the owners fleeing from them were destroyed. Mr. E. R. Gains's dwelling-house, gristmill, barn, and all his farm buildings, were pulled down. Mrs. Wellord's dwelling and a number of other houses were also pulled down, and on Saturday night when they left the whole country was illuminated by their incendiary torches. They set on fire the dwellings of Mrs. Col. John M. Patton, Mrs. Col. Jas. F. Strother, two dwellings of W. W. Grinnan, and Mrs. Innskepp, and Col. J. Slaughter's barn, and farm buildings. They took with them all the negroes they could induce to leave, but the officers would not allow them to be forced to go. They arrested a number of citizens and carried them to Washington, among them Messrs. George and David Jameson, handcuffed and in chains. They said they had evidence enough to hang one of them. Mr. Henry Shackelford, David Stallard, S. S. Bradford, Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Farish,--Nash, J. Yates were taken off; and Jack Wood, t