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The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], The late Yankee raid in North Alabama. (search)
bellion against said Government, I have ordered an assessment upon your property to the amount of -- dollars, payable immediately. You are, therefore, commanded to pay over to Maj. W. M. Lusk, Paymaster of this Brigade, the above sum, or the same will be collected from you at the sacrifice of your property. Florence M. Cornyn, Col. 10th Mo. Cav., Coma'g brigade The lowest assessment that I have heard of under this edict, was $500, the highest $5,000. --One gentleman, Mr. William Warren, for falling to pay his assessment, was carried off. I should have mentioned before that all the stores in town were entered, and what the devils did not want they threw out in the muddy streets. To our inexpressible relief the scoundrels left town on Wednesday afternoon, taking with them about fifty bales of cotton all the mules and horses they could find, and as many negroes as they could force off, about sixty in all. They took the plantation teams to haul their cotton. Owing