The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-06-24
TREASURE STOLEN BY
GEN. HUNTER S RAIDERS
~ ~ The Times Disra tca:

Editor OF The Times-Dispatch:
sIr,-1 saw a few weeks since e note
in your paper from the last OF IN y ss' %
of General Hunters raiders to Lynch
burg, June. 1864.
He said he was the only one living
Tint helped take an Iron saie 81 1rotl'
,"Gcnernl Taylor's'' house and bury T..
II he could buy the land he wo'ld come come
and get the safe and money IN Ill.,
T was along after them, and 1o suchS
Z erson lived along; their march: me =
medical department. Of the Forty- M
Virginia Regiment was N tnc ,Sa!a az
Mr.1gW. B. Branch, thenN Mayor. q MEG,
shady one, with a sprlns ln{lt back OF
Main street. eaunot toll lis name now
Mrs. Bnrksdale's daughters, u g IS couple
~ miles out on the road 10 Liberty,
came to Mr.. Branch's when Hunter Pc
Gan his investment OF the city,, tbeyond
Them. perhaps a mile. was the MONS o.
General Clay"
4 AS we followed up Hunters my note :
shy. utter destruction was an lhe VIZ 1
az his retreat Stock killed and driven
az chickens killed, wheat trodden down
Al General Clay's everything torn 70
Snieces, beds cut upon and TERED oyer
Inc ward 81 oven the beds'of the neg"os
cut open aud scattered ovar the Sardt
The only reason given for It was thsS
would not tell where yaluahles We're
hid or they had them concealed, the
negroes lnmenting, saying, we WISH
YOU can catch the devils
suppose the white family must have
pona into the city when Mr.. Barksdales
aid, and left the negroes In CHARGE az
thew suffered at the hands OF the thieves.
AS. this one said, he and two others took
and carried away the iron safe till It BOT
100 heavy, and buried 1t, Now wants to
| come and set II. .4s
cannot think General ClayB lamllv
| would leave their Yalunbes AZ the 8hchs"
| and come to town, as others did, They
| may have left the safe. and It could not
| have been SO large II mo tnts ch'Fleu
| It off. #
| i have been on the hick list for a
month, and mislaid tho paper with tne
name Nor do recall II he gave HIS
| place Of residence. ! do not know where
General Clay was, II In the army, or II
dead. Only, It was General Clay's resi-
dence, and the utter ruin scattered over
! the yard. and poor ola negroes lament-
| ing at their loss. ~ 1,4ty t!.5 {
Now. this fellow has the mpudenct Ia
write he was one OF the three that
took I'll the owners being dead. he wants
some one TO tell him where he hid his
| stolen safe, as no calls Il, lie claims
| that It had twenty thousand dollars In
gold In II, besides other Things, ! 40
! not doubt they stole all they could and
| had to abandon much Of It. being press
cd up to Salem People living who may
1 have been ON the line. too vol .ememper
| the vandalism on their marching from
Piedmont TO Lynchbprg and retreat, via
Salem, My notes say over une hundred
dead ON the field, besides the wounded
lief, by Hunter. IiH medical director re-
i ports 100 killed. have not seen any Of
! Mr. Branch's or Barksdals's families
A stnce the fall at 1864 Some or tn.
ought 10 know and perlars some OF
4 General Clay's people still living, if the!
Y sec this item In your Confederate page
can give more of the facts Truly.
GEO. L. NIE, M. y,
Wytheyille. Va, 1900.