The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-08-18
Yankee Outrages Retaliation.

We have already announced the names OF sundrl
persons selected hostages for the safety of sver,
| respectable citizens non-eombatantS captured b,
the "fcnd" Hunter la his expedition into Virginia
The Eagairci, We take for granted upon good a,l
| thority makes the following statement The It'll
| Jest retaliation will maIk the future An eye to-
eye, and tooth ior tooth is sthc order frou
| the authorities IN Richmond I" The assurance vii
be received with satisfaction by tie public 1h,
foIboalance 81 the Confederate Government has ID
no wise diminished the insults ami outrages OF the
enemy, and it is time that the virtue Of rigid retail
/ alton should be tried
In the article which contains this statement, tn,
| EaqHirey announces that Colonel Crook a brother
vi the general OF that name, selected rs HOSTAGE
for Colonel Angus W. Mcdonald Colonel MELON
| aid Is venerable citizen OF Hampshire county, in
this State. lie has five gallant sons in the amy
and five more Who will be iii if the war lasts long
| enough. fugitive from his county, he was cap
tured m Rockbridge, and by Hunters order put in
CHAINS because he had resisted TIN. invaders of the
State with aims III his hands. lie has been confined
Ike ielon III Il Jail i'll Cumberland, MARYLAND,
whence lie has cdntriyed a letter 10 his wife lie
scrlbing the lgnoinilous treatment to which lie had
been subjected But, with the spirit of patriot aud
the love OF father, he says TO his children and
gr''ndchildren that the liberty and independence Of
themselves and then native land is worth all that
have done or suffered, and much more as NAV
be called OH TO do or suffer" 1t is supposed that
he is especially indebted 10 Mr. David T. STROLLER
better known as Porte Crayon" Tor the distinction
conferred Oh him by the Yankees of treating hiIl
with especial cruelty. \ communication has been
made to Porte Crayon' by the brave sons OF the
M
of this fact suppostion as it may be- (which will
be not at all agreeable to him Unless he clears his
skirts of the accusation, he must as long as he or
any OF those young COnfAleiates live be held to an
account that must be always forced to settlement
whenever he and any of them may meet.
Apropos OF the artist, Porte Crayon: he came to
this city after the war began and rendered his SER
vices to Governor Letcher to raise regiment of ca
valry for the defence of the Southern cause. lie
wasreceiyed kindly by the Governor partook freely of
ms h0SpitalitIeo and encouraged to the full ex-
tent oil the Governors authority in his enterprise
When he departed, his friends supposed he WI, pro-
eeedlne at once to crafty his patriotic impulses By
raising the regiment aforesaid. The next thing
heard OF hum he attache OF the Yankee army,
Fiouhg General Patterson, as he has piiOted since
Federal officers less Of gentlemen and More OF ends
nativity to the homes of his neighbols ilio ns. ana
relatives, which they pundered and dcsolated. As
sort OF return TO Governor Lotehcr for the kind
ness he received at his hands and his generous board,
he drew sketch of his house in Lexington before il
was burned under Hunters order, and another Of it
while burning, for HorPel's Ueehty.
Another case of especial interest which has re-
Gently occurred is that of young William B. Macgil
son of DIR. Macgill, formerly Of Hagerstown Mary
land, but now OF Richmond. This young gentleman |
was private in the First Maryland Confederate |!
cavalry, and was captured by the Yankees near the
State lne after the burning of Chambersburg. lie
IS called 'rebel house-burner )" and he too has |
been put III jail as fclon, TO be tried Young Mae
gill Is regular soldier i'll the service Of the Con-
ederacy, and whatever he did was under the orders
If his superior officers, ami that too in the burning
II Yankee town, III pant Of retaliation for the re-
iucng to ashes, by the Yankees, Of a number ot
southern towns. lie was Il cadet at West Point |
yhen the begun, and left that institution 10 ion
he cause of the South, in which he has proved IA,
evotion and his bravery OF course such 4 man |
not to be allowed TO suffer nIiynity ana outrage
ohtrary to the rules OF civilized warfare while thu
prisoner in the enemy's hands, with imtunitv to
rs perhecutors and We gratified to learn that a
ederaI prisoner Is to be selected to undergo pre- I
lsely the treatment meted cut to him. |
The Southern Contsderaey has ioibolne, with a |
'atence that had been interpreted by many OF our
eope much 10 its prejudice, to Iettliate Tor thou
ands OF outrages which weie just grounds OF retail
atom. Not 10 go further from hollie We had in oul
rlsons numbers Of Dahlgrel's and Kilpatri.k'>
len, who had been engaged III burning mills ana |
arms, and thus depnsing women and chlldien of
IL means OF SUBSISTENCE some of those who burned
re Dover Mills we've taken, that it Was known | .
icy were engaged III it and some were caught with
A. Seddon's spoons i'll their pockets fresh from |
eir pilfiSlng ana buriling-right on their way to
urder the Government officers and 10 sack and |
lrn Richmond Yet, thus arrested, they wela !
Gated rs other prisoners, aud 80 exchanged What q
Is been gained 10y folbearance Nothing The |
erny 0utia2es have continued and been increased
magnitude and horror. Andas if they had never
parted irofl the usages OF war, and perpe- ]
ated an act that merited punishment ana retalia-
~ they propose to Try young Macgili as a felon-
G trust the Government will take opportunity to
ldieate the Southern soldier and its own honor
After the above was written two days since We
elved the following official notice, which we pub =
a with pleasure:
Samuel Crooks, Colonel Twenty-second New | !
= cavalry, captured at Reams's Station, June q
II, mas been put IN close confinement, and in | I'd
us, AT Macon, Georgia, in retaliation for similar Ia
atIneiit oil Colonel Angus w Mcdonald who was IN
'tied near Lexington Virginia, by Colonel CT ooks "a
lment during Hunters raid up the Valley" VI