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The Daily Dispatch: March 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
his rule in that section. We learn that on Monday, the 16th of the present month, a body of the enemy made a raid from Harper's Ferry, through Lovettsville and Waterford, to Leesburg. Their force consisted of three hundred cavalry and several pieces of artillery. At Leesburg they lock a number of valuable horses, and several citizens as hostages and carried them off. Being burrowed by a portion of cavalry as far as Hillsborough, the latter were in turn pursued by the enemy as far as Purcellville and Woodgrove. As the enemy returned back above Hillsborough they stopped at the house of Mr. John Thompson, and under the pretence that he had harbored "rebel soldiers" applied the torch to his promises, valued at $10,000 and reduced the whole to ruins. At the time of committing this outrage the vandals announced their intention of burning up the houses of ten other rebel sympathizers in the some neighborhood. Milroy is carrying out Lincoln's emancipation proclamation in the Valley.