The Abingdon Virginian. [volume] (Abingdon [Va.]) 1849-1883, 1862-12-19
From the Richmond Enquirer, of the 10Th.
Ng5Eroyes GDeratiDns.

HliEroy's Operations.
The following orders of Gen. Milroy, who
is restoring the Union in North West Vir-
ginia are another illustration of the enormous
villany of the United States commanders:
ST. GEORGE, TUCKER Co., WEST Va,
Nov q, 1862.
Mr.. JOB Parsons, (son of Abraham
You are hereby ordered to report in person or
by your representative at my headquarters, IN
ST. George Court House. on the Goth of Novenl-
Der, 1862, to attend to business of vital impor-
lance to yourself. And in case OF your failure
to comply with the above order you must sufier
the penalty.
BY order of Brig. Gen. R. Fl. Milroy,
HORACE KELLOGG,
CAPTAIN, Post Commandant
On repairing to the headquarters OF this IN
solent Ohio Abolitionist, the following docu-
ment was handed to Mr.. Parsons, by Kellogg,
with the remark, "you see the old man Mil
roy is in earnest:"
ST. GEORGE, TUCKER Co., VA,
Nov. %, 1862. 4
.afr Jo5 Parsons (son of Abraham Parsons:)
SYR-In consequence of certain robberies
of Tucker county, Va, by bands of guerrillas,
you are hereby assessed to the amount of four
teen dollars s. twenty five cents ($$l4.25t to make
good their losses and upon your failure to com
ply with the above assessment by paying the
money over to me by the first day of December,
1862. the following order will be executed, VIZ
s.If they fail to pay at the END Of the time you
have named, TIER boases so be burned and them
selces shot and their property ali seized And be
sure that you carry out this threat rigidiy, anu
show them that you not thrilling OF to De tri1-
ed with
.sYou will inform the Inhabitants for ten or
fifteen miles around your. camp, on all the reads
approaching the town, upon which the enemy
may approach, that they must dash in and give
YOU notice. and that upon failure of any one to
do so, their houses will be burned and the men
shot.
ssBy order of
ssBrig Gen r. III. MILRoY,
s:Capt. HoaacE KELLoGG,
commanding Post. Z
IF General Milroy executes his several
threats as above made,- ne will prove himself
simply foul and cowardly robber and muir
derer, instead of soldier. It would be sim
ply absurd in case he should fall into our pow
er to refrain from shooting him down, or hang
ing him on the next tree.
The enemy have disgraeed themselves often
enough heretofore, in the attempt to obtain
military advantages by. iDhuman and coward
lyexpedients. twill be remembered to their
shame how, at Romney, they forced Confede-
rate prisoners to march before them to prevent
the fire of our forces. It viii be remembered
how the women and children of Memphis have
been held and punished as hostages for Con-
federate soldiers outside. We see it gravely
proposed in the march on Wilmington to force
Confederate prisoners to march at the head of
their column.
It is reserved for Milroy to eclipse his COM
peers in the exhibition of this detestable cow
ardice and infamous barbarity. Instead OF
relying upon his own pickets and scouts, as
heis bound to do, he requires citizens, ON pain
of death, to do the work of his soldiers. He
exacts Of them duty which they have no
right to require; and he declares death to
them, and heap Of ashes to their families, as
the penalty of failure. Instead of pressing
his military operations against our soldiers.
after the manner of war, and relying on vigor.
courage and adroitness, to compass his ends,
he discards those resources of the true soldier,
and after the manner of q coward, INDUCES
brutal revenge on unoffending and unarmed
citizens--turns families from their homes,
RIBS, burns and murders. A new method, to
be sure, ia the art of war! A noble hero arr
sen to win the admiration of Christendonl.
We trust that the above orders of this poor
craven, whom jackson SO badly whipped at
Mcdowell, and who naws wins Tictories over
the unarmed, viii reach Europe, that the
world may fully understand the enormity
which marks the conduct of our foe. The
lash of public md universal scorn, will make
its abiding mark upon them.
For the Virginian.
ABINGDON, Dec Is, 1862.
Nessrs Coale 4 Barr at meeting of citi-
gems at the Court House, on Saturday last, in
Guiding several of the Magistrates of the coun-
ty. it was the sense of those assembled, that the