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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], A case of Yankee barbarity. (search)
A case of Yankee barbarity. Among the thousand acts of barbarity practiced by the Yankee invader in Virginia, none have exceeded the murder of Mrs. George R. Smith. at Suffolk, a full account of which we take from the Petersburg Express: Mr. Smith resided about one mile from the town, a well to do farmer, having around him an interesting family, the eldest one a gallant young man in the 16th Va. regiment. When Gen. Longstreet invested Suffolk a sharp artillery and infantry skirmishSuffolk a sharp artillery and infantry skirmish took place near Mr. Smith's residence, and many balls passed through his house. The Yankees finally advanced and fired the houses, forcing the family to leave. Mrs. Smith, with her seven children, the youngest only ten months old, at tempted to escape to the woods and into the Confederate lines, when she was fired upon by the Yankee soldiers, and a Minnie ball entering her limb just below the hip, she died in thirty minutes, from loss of blood.--The children, frightened, hid themselves in th