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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 3: political affairs.--Riots in New York.--Morgan's raid North of the Ohio. (search)
r friends. ), Vallandigham continued his seditious speeches, and denounced the order itself. There appeared real fanaticism among the followers of this man, while he was engaged in this campaign against the Government. While he was riding in a procession at Batavia, in Ohio, some of his abject admirers took the more noble horses from his carriage, and drew the vehicle through the village themselves.-Letter of an eye-witness, a friend of the author. He was arrested at his own house in Dayton, Ohio, May 4 1863. on a charge of having been guilty of treasonable conduct. He was tried by a court-martial convened at Cincinnati, April 22. over which Brigadier-General Clement L. Vallandigham. R. B. Potter presided; and was convicted, and sentenced May 16. to close confinement in a fortress for the remainder of the war. This sentence was modified by the President, who directed him to be sent within the military lines of the Confederates, and, in the event of his returning without
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 13: invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania-operations before Petersburg and in the Shenandoah Valley. (search)
,000 barns, filled with wheat, hay, and farming implements, and over 70 mills filled with flour and wheat; have driven in front of this army over 4,000 head of stock, and have killed and issued to the troops not less than 8,000 sheep. He also reported that since he entered the valley from Harper's Ferry, every train, every small party, and every stragglers had been bushwhacked by the people, many of whom have protection papers. Lieutenant Meigs, his engineer officer, was thus murdered near Dayton. For this atrocious act, says Sheridan, all the houses within an area of five miles were burned. w Because of these devastations, a Richmond paper, echoing the sentiments of the chief Conspirators at that capital, proposed an atrocious scheme of retaliation. It was nothing less than the destruction of Northern cities by secret hired incendiaries. It was proposed to pay liberally for the service. A million of dollars, said the Richmond Whig, would lay in ashes New York, Boston, Philadelp