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The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Attack on Gloucester Point. (search)
ince, during an Abolition raid into Jefferson county, Va., a party, headed by a Michigan Major, entered the house of Col. Washington, and after giving it a thorough ransacking. carried off the plunder they did not destroy. The leader of the party f conspicuous in his attachment to a highly valued family relict in the shape of an or final picture, by Stuart. of Gen. Washington, which his descendent did not have time to secrete before the arrival of the vandals. He boxed it up and sent it toivered it to Gen. Winder, to be restored to its owner. The Yankees seem to have a penchant for old relies belonging to Washington. When in possession of Fairfax, they broke into the office of the county Clerk and stole Washington's will, and during of his Country" a member of the craft. Besides, they made a target of his mother's tombstone. Power's marble statue of Washington, in the Masonic Hall, was not molested, being too bulky for removal. The Yankees are truly an enterprising people.