. Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians . lies, surgical instru-ments, etc., was prohibited—a cruel war measure, neverbefore enforced by a civilized nation, save by the Duke ofWellington when commanding the British army in Spain. The Valley Devastated.—General Sheridan, command-ing in the Valley near the close of the war, boasted that hehad so laid waste and devastated that rich and fertile regionthat a crow flying over it would have to carry its rations. Shermans Brutalities.—Shermans march from Atlantato the sea and from Savannah to North Carolina was lightedby the flames of burn
. Young people's history of Virginia and Virginians . lies, surgical instru-ments, etc., was prohibited—a cruel war measure, neverbefore enforced by a civilized nation, save by the Duke ofWellington when commanding the British army in Spain. The Valley Devastated.—General Sheridan, command-ing in the Valley near the close of the war, boasted that hehad so laid waste and devastated that rich and fertile regionthat a crow flying over it would have to carry its rations. Shermans Brutalities.—Shermans march from Atlantato the sea and from Savannah to North Carolina was lightedby the flames of burning homesteads and disgraced by insultsand indignities heaped upon defenceless non-combatants,women, and children. He justified his action by saying:We are fighting not only hostile armies, but a hostile peo-ple, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel thehard hand of war. Hunters Vandalism.—General David Hunter, a Virginianby birth, commanded an army which ravaged his nativeState and destroyed the homes of his kindred, amongst whom. OF Virginia and Virginians 213 he had been born and reared. He moved along his courseunopposed, and, among other barbarities, burned the build-ings and scientific apparatus of the Virginia Military Insti-tute, and the private residence of Governor Letcher. Gene-ral Jubal Early, ever ready in such anemergency, moved rapidh^ to Lynch-burg, met Hunters army in the suburbsof the city and drove it in rout out ofthe State. In March, 1894, that brave,devoted and able Virginia soldier waslaid to his rest. His grave lies acrossthe very spot where his line of battlelay that evening when he defeatedHunter and saved Lynchburg. Hunter jubal a. early was pursued and constantly attacked by General McCausland and others until he made his escapeinto West Virginia in a pitiable plight. Dahlgrens Raid.—While Kilpatrick was conducting araid through Virginia in 1864. he detached Colonel UlricDahlgren, with about 100 men, to make a rush into Rich-mond
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