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The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], The demonstration on the Peninsula — Withdrawal of the Yankees from New Kent C. H. (search)
Federal duplicity. Both Rosecrans and Burnside have in their orders attached the penalty of death to the wearing of Federal uniforms by Confederate soldiers, and it was declared that all of such soldiers captured with such uniforms upon them should be subject to capital punishment. In the recent raid by Averill his advanced guard was clothed in Confederate uniforms. They appeared first in the villages and along the roads as they marched, and our people were deceived, imagining thatal existence. In this catalogue of crimes against mankind, Averill's little device of deceiving the localities he visited by clothing his advance in Confederate uniforms is a small offence. It is only noticeable for its inconsistency with Rosecrans and Burnside's brutal orders. Our brave soldiers only wear Yankee uniforms as a matter of necessity. They capture them fairly in the field, and they put them on as a matter of right, as well as a matter of necessity, to protect themselves aga