Yankee depredations in Virginia.
The following letter, from a gentleman who has been despoiled of his property by the dastards who are now making war upon the
South, has been sent to us for publication:
About the 15th of February, 1862, the United Stated revenue cutter.--,
Captain Frank, landed a crew on my farm, called.
White Point, on the
Potomac river, in
Westmoreland county, Virginia, and carried off a lot of poultry, fired a rifle ball through my dining room, and several balls through the dairy, breaking a window sash and nine panes of glass.
On the 11th of March, inst, two
United States gunboats landed some men at the same place, and carried off the following articles: A seine, rope, and two anchors, worth $1,050; and all the cooking utensils belonging to an extensive fishery; three well filled bee-hives, fifteen hens, four guineas fowls, six turkeys, six ducks; killed fifteen hogs, fired on the sheep, swam a colt to their gunboat, but failed in getting it on board, and it returned to land; broke open the dwelling-house, taking everything from garret to cellar, earthen and glassware, clothing of various descriptions, three clocks, pictures, vases, two maps, school and miscellaneous books, a box of glass, chairs, settee, boots, a keg of nails, removed from the transoms three panes of ornamental glass, and two other panes not in use, costing $10 per pane; the keys to all the doors, and many other articles not remembered, save a large supply of
garden seeds--breaking many panes of glass in various rooms.
They then broke open the servants houses, took their clothing, and a hog each from two aged servants, who complained of the treatment, and were answered by oaths, and said their master must give them more.
They also shot a bull, worth $50, and killed a large beef, worth $75, which they did not carry off. They then broke open my barn.
Among the crew was a runaway negro from
Bluff Point estate, a neighboring farm who was dressed in uniform and armed with sabre, pistols and rifle, and no doubt brought to decoy other negroes, as he gave glowing accounts of those who escaped with him.
