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Brutality of the Yankees.--The Lynchburg
Virginian has some further particulars of the attack on
Wytheville.
It gives the following cases of the barbarity of the
Yankees in the attack:
An Irishman was shot dead because he refused to go with them.
He had taken no part in the fight.
Capt. Oliver, it is assented by a lady of unquestionable veracity, was shot and killed while a prisoner in her yard, because he refused to give information to the enemy.
A Catholic friar was shot while is the act of assisting a decrepit lady from the burning house of
Mr. Wm. Gibbony, and his leg had since been amputated.
Her crutches had provisory been taken from her by the brutes.
Col. Boyd and other citizens, who had not engaged in the fight, were taken from their houses and forced to walk to the mountain, where they were paroled.
These are only come of the inhumanities which were perpetrated.
Among the victims of the
Yankees are two citizens of the town, an old gentleman named Cock and
a Mr. Telligan.
The latter was murdered in cold blood, after he has surrendered.
The
Abiegden Virginian has the following about the probable, or rather improbable capture of the raiders:
‘
It is now reported that
Col. May cut off their retreat through
Burk's Garden, and that they attempted to make their way out through
Mercer county, but when they get in the vicinity of the
Cross Roads, they found that Celapel RcCarmland was in their front, and the only possible way for their escape was by the way of
Rocky Gap, Bland county.
When they arrived here they met the gallant
Col. Wm. R. Peters.
with a portion of his new regiment and a small force sent him by
Col. May, to whom report says, the
Yankees surrendered.
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