Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-17
From our Living ard Oar Dead
sIlCr9'a;i,s I:I:i Fitzpatrick an -ar~o.

Comfy.
The elegant mansion Of Mrs. ---.
Il most respected and worthy lady, Ill
tAe South western portion Of the Gun
~, N;;s taken possession Of by Kilpat-
rick in person, rs headquarters the
horses of bis staff were stabbed in the
lower rcor.s. his own being led in a
costly piino III the parlor, wilii" those
oi hI~ troopers ranged at Will through
the ward, ra1teTre and gardens,
La the second story, lie held high
carnival with the Strumpets and pros
tltlltCs. who accompanied him and the
staff officers. ii may be, that she
who went along rs his wife when he
was sent 10 ''represert' thc Govern
meut It 'hc Court OF Chill. was also
here j
Nnjor James Cottingham, Il feeble
old man, I, christian gentleman whose
sons were absent In the service OF their
country, had removed to a swamp near
his house, two horses, some provisions,
clothing, &C., which he with ten year
Old g-ardson was guarding.
''SUrrcnder, you internal old REBEL"
shouted one Of Kilpatrich's men, who
dlscOveled him. Il am unarmed-
dou't XII ne :" said the poor old man,
itS 1t HNp1C Vi lJl6iOiS 'iLtl car 0IueS were
presented at him. Take the path
you - Doublequick . was the order.
Il am cid and weak and cannot run, :"
he ana Eered-and then a yankee bull
Let went crashing through his head
There he died. tile tie ''conquering
S'n1arching on 90
oil
aged near 20 Hears, his wife absent
with Il sick daughter. He saw his gin
and storehouse, barns and stables with
the ground: his dwelling ransacked,
tions OF years. destroyed or carried
away: his negroes, excited by hITor
fire civ given them, and encouraged by
the Yankee demons, assisting with
devilish Clae in the work Of ruin and
desolation. He sat on his door-steps,
unlaunted and, may be. defiant, and
speaking to one negro whom he had
trusted, Iut who was foremost in lead
ing tha robbers where some iewehy,
plate. money and papers were hidden,
said, You shall suffer for this,' Those
we're his last Ineligible words, for a
"Union soldier, % without word
Of warning, shot him deadl The mark
of the deadly ball that passed through
his body [ have often seen, and is
yet plainly disce1nible upon his piazza
floor.
Five miles away lay that sick daugh-
ter: the mother Watching at her bed
side, her terrified little children around
her, all i'll agony and despair at the
work OF death. And some ''truly
loyal" liar told The invaders that the
husband and father, who early in the
war Ifad been taken prisoner and pa
rolled, had violated his parole, and was
now concealed near his home with q
quantity Of money and valuables, ali of
which was as unfourded and base lie
as ever was conceived or uttered by
scoundrel or desertcr.
Des-n was his doom, If caught !!
Thither swarmed Sherman and Kill
patricks $ men by hundreds-and there,
at ard around the bedside of that
pure, helpless, dying woman, deeds
were done almost too horrible and
! devil;sh to name, too n onetrous for
bllief.
\ mulatto servant girl who, wien
most of her race had either joined the
invaders or taken flight to tie woods,
remained in faithful and devoted at
tendance upon her sick mistress, was
seized ami borne to an djoining room,
where the inetfable crime was commit
| ted by q dozen Yankee devils III sue
! cession . And while tho girls scream
resounded through the housc-wlIile
robbery and pillage went on, while
! everything valuable was baiuS stolen
or destroyed-while valuable store
house, within a hundred yards of the
dwelling, was burning, man wearing
the marks of field officer, and styled
"Major" by his followers, said to thai
almost dying woman, as her terrified
snl helpless children hung trernblingly
around her bed, ''where's your hus-
band, you Cd d Secesh b-h ?" 81
don't know" she answered 'the's
gone away, because he knew yor
would kill him ''Yor lie, d.
you Tell me where he is or we vii
burn the holse Set fire to it, men
Cd d-n her, we'll make her talk.
: And then her little children, forget