Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-05-22
BRUTAL ATRooITY OF MAGRUDER.

When the Confederates eyacuate
Williamsburg, Gen. Magruder brougl
avay six women who were suspeete
of being friendly to the Union cause
order to guard against their giving il
formation. After being held captive
two or three days they we're set at lii
erty, and arrived at West Point th
morning, where they stated to Ger
Franklin that their persons had beel
violated by Gen. Magruder and othe
officers high in rank.
THE REBELS BLYoSETrEa OUR woUsDRI
The Tribune's New Kent correspou
dent furnishes the following fearful de
tails.
Capt. H. B. o'Rilsy. Company G
1st Regiment, Sickles Brigade, fell up
on the field in front Of Williamsburg
terribly wounded in the mouth AM
jaws. He went into the field with
bullet-proof vest on. His regimen
was forced back before the Captain
could be removed. When It recovereI
its ground, the Captain was found Il
be deed. The bullet-proof vest wal
gone, and there were bayonet wounds
through the officers breast. That case
is made out certainly.
Second. Orderly-Sergeant Pease,
Company E, of the same regiment,
slightly wounded, was taken prisoner,
in company with two boys. On the
night of the evacuation Of Williams
burg; all three were tied to the tail oi
9 loaded wagon, and started for Rich
mond. The lads, in the first mile oi
the retreat, came up with Lieut.. Mel
son, Company F, 1st Regiment Sickles
Brigade, badly wounded, and prison.
er. He became unable to walk. The
brutes who had him in charge bayonet-
ed him twice, and left him upon the
road side. Our troops found him there
the next day, just alive, but not able
to speak. One of the boys, paroled on
account OF his youth, says that he saw
the wounded officer bsyoneted to get
rid of him. That case would seem to
be made out also.
Proof as conclusive as this Of the
Sepey brutality of these rebel troops
in numerous other cases, is in process
of collection. OF course, when our
regiments took possession of Fort Ma
gruder and its sister works, they found
torredoes thickly planted, to be explod-
ed by the accidental touch of the foot
the same cowardIy and diabolical con-
trivance which disgraced their eVacua-
ton of Yorktown.
UNIoNIsTs SCARCE.
Diligent enquiry could not establish
the existence of more than one Union
man in Williamsburg. And inasmuch
as he made one of our officers a gift Of
a small dsmask table-spresd, from
which Magruder had drank wine three
evenings before, it is fair to presume
that his professions of Unionism are a
swindle. This side of Williamsburg,
upon the line of our march, no scrutiny
with candles by daytime could possibly
discover one Union man or one Union
woman. Of slightly higher physical
type, the men and women who have
abided on their farms are the same in
error, ignorance, obstinscy and fierce
ness as the rebels in the ranks.
pEsoLATIoNs OF WAR.
The line of the rebel retreat-the
streets of Williamsburg quilted into
canals and holes, where wagons we're
abandoned, and the mired soldiers
commenced to throw away their bur-
dens-a total disappearance of fences
from William and Mary College on
ward, all burnt for camp 6res-the
regular road a canal of bog, and de-
posit bank of ruin wherever the
ground was low-the swamps scene
of horror! "Stalled" artillery cais-
sons-overturned baggage wagons
broken and rified trunks and boxes
dead horses-mules buried in the mud,
under the weight of their packs, and
killed there, to prevent their falling in
to our hands-mired and abandoned
running gear of every description, the
spokes half chopped through with axes
in every case, and most of the tops
burned-aRd the never-ending dirty
gray uniforms of the dirtiest rufians
that ever carried muskets. Where
they csmped at night a curse fell on
the plain. They took frst the nearest
fences to make huts and camp fires;
then they forsged ali over the farms,
and killed and cooked cattle, sheep
and poultry, with the cruelest waste
fulness-frequently cleaned the house
of every element of food-destroyed
not merely to supply their own wants,
but to deprive US of what they consid-
cred our means of pursuit.
The farms on the line of their retreat
are ruined for this year. They must
be re-fenced. The wheat crop has
been most trampled and grazed down
from Williamsburg north to this point.
OUR LOSS TWO HUNDRED AT WILLIAMS
BURG.
The reader Of the reports in the
Philadelphia Enquirer would certainly
suppose that Gen. Hancock's fight on
our right was the principal battle
How easy it is to correct this error.
Hancock had only between twenty and
thirty killed and wounded, and only
four regiments engaged. His affair
was but a skirmish. On the left.
Heintzelman was compelled to fight a