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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Burning of Alexandria, Louisiana. (search)
rnment he had sworn to support, and which had promised him protection, allowed its soldiers to apply the torch to his dwelling and turn his family into the streets.--His fine residence, with all its costly furniture, his books, papers, and his fine paintings, were burned up. It may be that many of the last-named articles will yet find their way to the North, having been rescued from the flames by pilferers and thieves; for where arson is resorted to, it is generally to cover theft. J. Madison Wells, the Lieutenant-Governor of Louisiana, elected with Hahn, by General Banks's orders, was not spared. He had been a Union man from the beginning. He had a splendid residence in Alexandria, well and richly furnished, at which his own and his son's family resided. His son was absent in New Orleans, attending the Constitutional Convention, of which he was a member, and in which he voted for abolition and all the ultra measures; but that did not secure his family the protection of the gov