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The Daily Dispatch: December 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], A monument to the "Union." (search)
the people here; but all seem astonishingly hopeful, and I can but look upon them with all their oppressions and sufferings, and feel ashamed for many respondents in other sections. Four companies of Yankee cavalry are stationed at Bernard's Mill, four miles below Suffolk, on the Portsmouth road, and their pickets are at Jericho Run, two miles from town. Little thieving squads frequently enter the town and steal whatever they can find, and arrest soldiers and returned citizens that may come in their way. Every one has some tale to tell of wrongs perpetrated by the Spears's 11th Pennsylvania cavalry. The Confederate commander that will capture this regiment of cavalry, and bring up the head of Col. Spears in a charger, will immortalize himself in this community. Several refugees were in town last week, among them the pastor of one of the churches, who, to avoid arrest, stayed only a short time, and was not permitted to meet the few remaining members of his charge in worship.