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The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
Sad Occurrence. --The Warrenton (Va.) Flag announces the death, in that place, of a lad named Jefferson Magruder, son of Mr. T. J. Magruder. Since Washington has been occupied by the Northern troops, Mr. Magruder's family have been sojourning at the Warren Green Hotel, in Warrenton, and one evening last week this little boy, with his two brothers, wandered some two miles from town in search of cherries, and ascended a tree, from which this one unfortunately fell and died in a few minutes afterwards. His father was absent at the time, looking after his interests in Washington.
The Daily Dispatch: June 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Scrap of history. (search)
risoned, and their whole property taken from them and destroyed. I have also ordered that compensation should be made out of their estates to the persons who have been injured and oppressed by them. I have ordered, in the most positive manner, that every militia man who has borne arms with us and afterwards joined the enemy, shall be hanged. I desire you will take the most rigorous measures to punish the rebels in the district which you command." This letter fell into the hands of Washington, and was made, with the similar orders issued by Lord Rawdon, the topic of indignant remonstrance with Sir Henry Clinton, their superior officer, to whom some modifying letters were written by these officers, to mitigate the enormity of their acts. They would need no mitigation in order to make them conform to the bloody minded counsels of the Lincoln press of this day.--On the contrary, the tone and almost the very words are renewed every day through their columns. It is another