--
Averill, upon his retreat from
Greenbrier, left his wounded, as well as our wounded who fell into his hands, at
Hillsboro', a town about three miles from the battle-field.
A few days after the fight, the
Confederates took both into their keeping.
They also buried the dead on the field, which
Averill had not stopped to do. There were 34 Confederate and 60 Yankee soldiers left unburied on the field.
The Staunton
Spectator gives some account of the outrages of the
Yankees in
Greenbrier.
It says:
‘
At
Lewisburg they arrested
Messrs. James Withrow,
Patrick Beirne, and
James N. Montgomery, but released them before they left.
They took away a great many servants.
Among the persons who lost in this way were
Col. Samuel McClung,
Col. Joel McPherson, and
Mrs. Patsy Mathews. --They entered and robbed the stores of
Messrs. Johnson E. Bell and
William H. Montgomery.
They entered houses, broke open trunks, and robbed ladies of their clothes and jewelry.
They robbed
Mrs. S. S. Smith and her daughters, living half a mile cast of the town, of all the clothes they had. They burned the barn and out houses of
Mr. James Calwell living at the bridge three miles east of town, and set fire to the brick dwelling, but it was put out by
Mr. Calwell's servants.
At this place they robbed
Mrs. Captain Robert F. Dennis of her furs, clothes, jewelry, &c. In what is known as the
Irish Corner, some six or seven miles from the town of
Lewisburg, they robbed a number of houses.
They had no respect of persons, and robbed those who were supposed to be Union men, as readily and thoroughly as other persons.
Gen. Averill's forces did not stop there, but came on east, as we stated in last week's issue.
At
Callaghan's the
Chaplain of the regiment set the example of robbery by breaking open the store of
Mr. Buster at that place.
Mr. Buster called the attention of the
Colonel of his regiment to the fact, when the
Chaplain received the benefit not only of a reproof, but of a terrible cursing, and threat of speedy punishment in
this world, in the form of horsewhipping.
’
