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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Brutality of the enemy while in Stafford — murder of a man and his mother. (search)
The Brutality of the enemy while in Stafford — murder of a man and his mother. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Stafford Co., Va., July 6, 1863.
During the last invasion of Stafford county, Va., by the vandal hordes of Burnside and Hooker, some of the deepest tragedies were enacted, which our Southern papers ought to hold up before the eyes of indignant humanity in their most glaring colors.
Time and space will not allow me to mention all; but one or two instances I will not revenge, they buried the poor mutilated body where it fell, and driving the mother and children into the woods, that bitter winter's night, see fire to the house and burnt it to the ground.
The above record is a solemn truth, and any citizen in Stafford can bear witness to it. The foul deed was perpetrated by me from Sigel's Grand Reserve Division of the Army of the Potomac, and under the superintendence of an officer.
Not content with destroying the things of time, these soldiers of "the best