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The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], From the Valley. (search)
From the Valley. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Camp near New Market, October 10, 1864. This morning verifies the proverb of Germany, "That there is no October without its winter." A heavy frost warns the half-naked soldiers that it is time they were making some preparation for the coming cold weather. For two days a few flakes of snow and hail have been falling at intervals as premonitory warnings, yet not enough to cause any inconvenience. Sheridan may justly be called the "Chief of Barn burners," for no one, perhaps, in the world over caused such destruction of grain and provender as he in his late retreat down the Valley. Scarcely a barn is left standing in the whole country from Strasburg to Staunton; in many instances, too, the dwelling-houses were burned. I passed one plantation on which not a house was left, the cattle lay dead in the field, and even the shocks of corn as they stood in the field were burned. Not a corn-field is left anywhere