A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence, in the Confederate States of America
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Ladies trunks had been ritled and their dresses torn to pieces in mere wantonness. Even the negro girls had lost their little finery. We now harch hud been applied by his orders. At Lexington he had burned the Military Institute, with all of its contents, including its library and scientific apparatus: and AVashington C'ol- legi' had been plundered and the statue of Washington stolen. The residence of Ex-Gover- nor Lttiber at that place had been Vmrned bj' orders, and but a few minutes giv...en Mrs. Letcher and her family to leave the house. In the same county a most excellent christian gentleman, a Mr. Creigh, had been hung, because, i>n a former occasion, he iiad killed a straggling and marauding Federal soldier while in the act of insulting and outraging tln' ladies of his faniil.y. These are but some of the outrages committed by Hunter or his orders, and I will not insult the memory of the ancient barbarians of the North by calling tlM'in "acts of Vandalism." If those old barbarians were savage and crnel,they at least had the manliness and daring of rude soldiers, with occasional traits of magnanimity.
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