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The Daily Dispatch: September 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee bastilles. (search)
s offered there as a sacrifice to Yankee vindictiveness. It was here that young Leopold, of Maryland, died. He was a member of a cavalry company commanded by Captain Burke, of Virginia. The home of the Captain was within the enemy's lines, and he ventured on one occasion to visit his family; a neighbor, a Unionist, discovering that he was there, gave notice to the enemy, who surrounded the house and murdered Captain Burke in the presence of his family. A short time afterwards the Union citizen met a similar fate. At Gettysburg young Leopold was captured; as soon as it was discovered that he was from Maryland and a member of Burke's company, charges wereBurke's company, charges were preferred against him for the murder of the Unionist referred to and for being a spy. He was convicted and sentenced to be hung.--He was incarcerated in a dark, damp cell in the "Interior" for more than six months. Early in May, he was one night notified that he was to die the next morning at five o'clock. His brother soldiers saw