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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 26 (search)
Chesapeake Bay, and in relation to some excess of the troops of the United States in Canada. The destruction of Havre de Grace was characterized at the time by the Cabinet at Washington as manifestly contrary to usages of civilized warfare. That village, we are told, was ravaged and burned, to the astonishment of its unarmed inhabitants at seeing that they derived no protection to their property from the laws of war. Further, the burning of the village of Newark, in Canada and near Fort George, by the troops of the United States, in 1813, though defended as legitimate by the officers who did it, on the score of military necessity, yet the act was earnestly disavowed and repudiated by the Government of the United States of that day. So, too, was the burning of Long Point, concerning which a military investigation was instituted. And for the destruction of St. David, by stragglers, the officer who commanded on that occasion was dismissed the service, without trial, for permittin