New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-04
Yankee Stealing Expedition.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial
gives the following account Of marauding expe-
dition into Virginia by the Yankees. No gentle
man in the Confederate service is the subject of
so much hate and the cause Of so much terror with
the Yankees as the intrepid and dashing Col.
Albert G. Jenkins and few, we may add, have
rendered such effective serrice or incurred as
heavy sacrifices:
Nine miles above Guyandote we came opposite
the farm of Col. Albert jenkins, whose cavalry, by
their continued ontrages, eliminating the massacre
of Guyandotte, have become the terror of the
whole country, Union men snd rebels alike exc.
Grating them. The boat stopped at the landing,
put out plank and four companies of the Forty
first, under command of Iieut.-Col. Wiseman,
started for the house on doable-quick, hoping to-
surprise and capture some ofJenkins' troops. The
expedition was handsomely Conducted Skirmish-
ers were thrown out, who Immediately occupied
the hills in the rear of the house, while the dwell
ling, closely guarded, was entered and searched.
Nothing was found.
The house is now occupied by Judge Bolfn, the
faIherinlaw of jenkins, whoclams to be Union
man, and is probably stationed there to protect the
property of a scoundrel under the shield of his
responsibility and prineipls Mrs. Bon was
highly excited. An Eastern Vrgnan, she rejoiced
| in being a secessionist. Herhouse had been re-
| peatedly visited, she said, and she believed and
hoped that one or two repetitDns OF these military
morning calls would make her husband rabid
|
piest day of her life She resented the nsinuation
| that her son-n-law would engage in anything dis
! honorable and denied that he had anything to do
with the Guyandotte massacre, though she must
| have known better. An edutated woman, she dis
coursed learnedly of rare species of Towering
exotic, the violet blooming ivy, {of Mexico) and
graciously permitted those botanically inclined to
pluck the flowers, and even Cit vines to send home
| for propagation. ~ n ~
After careful search they were called to and
returned to their boat. takingwith them ten horses
| the property of Jenkins. The Jenkins estate
owned by three brothers, Albert, the Doctor
and Jefferson, Gall in the rebel army, stretches
along the river shore distance of three miles
4 Fields of wheat and corn stood ungathered and un
/ husked. There was an abundance of everything
about the house. The house is a substantial two
\ story brick, very spacious and comfortable, sur
i rounded by fine old oaks and sycamores-a very
desirable country residence. ~,
/ When the reconnoitering party approached the
house, man was seen to take to his heels and dis
appear in the direction of the hills detachmen
set out in pursuit, but it failed to capture him. L
turned out, however, that he was tenanty and no
obnoxious by any participation with the rebels.
There was something suspicious in the fact, tina
in every house visited in the neighborhood not
man was to be found, though the women and chi
dren were at the house to receive military calls
And after our boat steamed out at two or thre
houses, a mile or two above, several horses, sad
died and bridled, were seen standing at the bars
and men furtively standing about 80.