Outrages of the enemy in Culpeper.
--Through a lady who left Culpeper county, since the evacuation by the enemy, the Lynchburg Virginian has the following particulars of the outrages perpetrated upon the people of that county:‘ All the houses that had been vacated by the owners fleeing from them were destroyed. Mr. E. R. Gains's dwelling-house, gristmill, barn, and all his farm buildings, were pulled down. Mrs. Wellord's dwelling and a number of other houses were also pulled down, and on Saturday night when they left the whole country was illuminated by their incendiary torches. They set on fire the dwellings of Mrs. Col. John M. Patton, Mrs. Col. Jas. F. Strother, two dwellings of W. W. Grinnan, and Mrs. Innskepp, and Col. J. Slaughter's barn, and farm buildings.
They took with them all the negroes they could induce to leave, but the officers would not allow them to be forced to go.
They arrested a number of citizens and carried them to Washington, among them Messrs. George and David Jameson, handcuffed and in chains. They said they had evidence enough to hang one of them.
Mr. Henry Shackelford, David Stallard, S. S. Bradford, Mr.Farish and Mrs. G. G. Farish,--Nash, J. Yates were taken off; and Jack Wood, the jailor, and John Snyder, joined the Yankees and left with them. Snyder went to them when they first came to the county, and told them he was a Union man, and claimed protection of them; however his house was destroyed when they left. It is believed the arrest of the Messrs. Jameson was caused by J. J. Wilberham, a man who resided in Culpeper until Pope's army came there, when he behaved very badly, and was notified by Mr. Jameson that it would not be safe for him to remain in Culpeper, and that if he did not leave he would be hung.--This man is now a sutler with Meade's army.
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