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The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
Outrageous proceedings in Accomac — brutal murder of citizens by Yankee soldiers. The citizens of Accomac county, Va., are subjected to the most cruel and barbarous treatment by the Yankee hirelings who now infest and pollute by their presence that portion of our State. At a court held for that county last Monday, says the Enquirer, at Drummondtown, a soldier, in passing through the crowd near the Court-House, came across a young man by the name of Bell, who had been captured at Roanoke Island, and paroled. Seeing that Bell had a small badge hanging inside of his vest, he asked if that was a "secesh" badge? Bell replied that it was only a badge which had been used by the members of the Debating Society while at College; and he still kept it as remembrance of hours happily spent among friends and comrades. The Yankee soldier, said it was a falsehood, and that it was a "Secesh badge." This led to an altercation, and a scuffle ensued. During the fight the constable of the Dru