The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1864-07-19


viii no view 10 publication, aud III response 10
private communication addressed him lay the
Mayor OF this city. The passages omitted relate
10 PERSONAL matters
LsxINuroN, VA >JuIy 5.h, 1854.
Finding The YANKEES would take i'ie
town, GA Saturday (iilh) lett home near MID l.
.hi tndJy night aud went IL Z fsidhI1 IN Erd-
to.t whe,e | Iemainrd unit Wednesday morning
following, when, heating the Viundis had ittt l
t,tuIued. | had previously hcdid that niy hou e
had Lesa huiE+t, with a us contents The thieat5
made by Ife Yankees against me, ioI The past 49,"
yeurs siilr feed me tbat they w"uii destroy my
hou4,. when they came 4" Lexington, buI al
ways supp sei they wnnld aiiow tlie nrnitufe a"d
INV family : clothing ta be removed. la thi~ .io"
ever 1 W - disappointed
When The Yankees took possession 0i Tho town.
Dr Patton, medical director fui hunter army ahd
who halls f.Um Marion couniy, Va, went to my
house Told my wife he was Auweii, and sad lac
must have room ia The house lie look ihe
toum suppei and bIeakiasled, aud, when bieax
fast " s me- aily over, tema ked, in manner han
ocuinr hail earnest 10 i2Zie that IL was t5 Ia
meal she would la. t ia the huusc. fhutiy alter
he left without taking leave oi any al tie iiaiiy
nor was lie again scen by anY of theni
The thteats made by soldiers on Saturday even
| iuy Induced my wife 10 ieaI ihe house would be
tuIurd ami she xp&essed her ieiis Ia fac hear
4 ,up oi DR. Patton aud Capt Towns, Oh New foIh
I Capt TUwas ve,y promptly siid, ihii oeihS
nt,yate citizen aud The house being pIiYaie piop
! eIly burning il would be an intAcusabe outrage
aud rruposrI at once 10 go Io Hunters heatqnLr
ters and Is seIlain. He went, and was directed by
Hunter To assure my vile that the house would mol
| be distu. bed The sequel shows that The sole ob
ject of ahs assL ancc WAS ID qniet hcf dpif:heh
SONS and thus pt.vtnt anything from btisg re
| moved About half past ID l-unday,l captain
| Berry and his provost guard rode up ana the o'h
| ccr cal ed for my Wife, she came 10 Tue auof
| when Betfy Informed her thot he was U!dried b)
| Hunter to fire The house. She replied there mu >
| he some mistabe, and asked lor me ofdef III
said ii was verbal order. She then said 10 MIN
| scan II not be delayed until can see Gen nun
| tea" The order Is pcrrmptoIy, he ttplird, an'
you have i've minutes la which 10 leave The h"'is.
she then ieked leave 10 remove her mothers sis
itct's, het awn aud hrr chiidTen's ciohihs, whici
wos ius".eniiy teiusri lmhie e,iiaieiy thetraitr
eamphfhe was poured 0h The paIor moor and igbi
ted with match. la The meantime, my daagh
Ter had gatheTs Ii? an imiu OF clothing, aud wa
going out, when he discovered her, RAN iufwar'
aud h'ed 'he clothing Ia her anna, lie ihsn pour
ed cahI,firne IN The WaIdIabaG, bureau drawers
aai igAitet the clothing taking nut fay clothing
which hn said he iGteG eGicd TO take Noria.
Every hoase on my lot was burned save sma'
| fTanlry over my lee house. Not a particle O
fi1nr. meat, OF anything edible WAS LEFT, all haV
ibg been cstfied on oh Saturday
NY mother, now In her .S.h year, lives On IN
| lot adj inis my own, having with her one 0i he
grandchildren and "a servant. Aitrf my pIoper
had been lifed, The henis tited her stable, iOcate
about iotty feet from her d, Use, with 40 oiii-
view Than 10 burn her out also. The ho,iS: cangl
twice, aud w0Hid have been consumed but for th
| Ntpt TOWNS Who Mtdr his ttt
carry water and cxthgaish The II itnes This Csptai
behaved like u gentleman towards my own ana n,
mothers family.
Gems Ayeriil, Crook su ilvan, and Dutiee dc
sounced the whole proceedings as an outrage, 1
si"'aii"m of all The prneipl.s OF civilized wal
FIRE, and stated that Hunter alone vas responsible
| tuf thes atfosities
| N
Ie,i gtaiefui Ia you sna other kt.i iiields 4
kieanoai fof tEtiI gaae'oos symlaihy aud kin
tender OF home. There ATE 40 people on IN
eanh who have been mGfe uniformly kind lha
the good people OF yous city, saa assure sou
apprseiate iheir kindness, as does also my tamil,
Accept our thanks for IL so toon' AZ ca
Visit Richmond will do so perhaps this month
] an truly and IN haste, your friend,
Il JOSH LETcItKA
, Jcgh Aeyc, Esq, Richmond, Va.