A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . orced by a civilized nation, save by theDuke of Wellington when commanding the British armyin Spain. The Valley Devastated.—General Sheridan, command-ing in the Valley near the close of the war, boasted thathe had so laid waste and devastated that rich and fertileregion that a crow flying over it would have to carry itsrations. Shermans Brutalities.—Shermans march from Atlantato the sea and from Savannah to North Carolina waslighted by the flames of burning homesteads and dis-graced by insults and indignities heaped upon defencelessnon-c
A young people's history of Virginia and Virginians .. . orced by a civilized nation, save by theDuke of Wellington when commanding the British armyin Spain. The Valley Devastated.—General Sheridan, command-ing in the Valley near the close of the war, boasted thathe had so laid waste and devastated that rich and fertileregion that a crow flying over it would have to carry itsrations. Shermans Brutalities.—Shermans march from Atlantato the sea and from Savannah to North Carolina waslighted by the flames of burning homesteads and dis-graced by insults and indignities heaped upon defencelessnon-combatants, women and children, which he justifiedby saying: We are not only fighting hostile armies, buta hostile people, and must make old and young, rich andpoor, feel the hard hand of war. Hunters Vandalism.—General David Hunter, a Virgi-nian by birth, commanded an army which ravaged hisnative State and destroyed the homes of his kindred,amongst whom he had been born and reared. He movedalong his course unopposed, and, among other barbarities,. 200 History of Virginia and Virginians. burned the buildings and scientific apparatus of the Virgi-nia Military Institute, and the private residence of Gover-nor Letcher. General Jubal Early, everready in such an emergency, movedrapidly to Lynchburg, met Hunters armyin the suburbs of the city and drove it inrout out of the State. In March, 1894,that brave, devoted and able Virginiansoldier was laid to his rest. His grave liesacross the very spot where his line ofbattle lay that evening when he defeatedHunter and saved Lynchburg. Hunterwas pursued and constantly attacked by General McCaus-land and others until he made his escape into West Vir-ginia 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—then apparently unguarded—to liberate the pri-soners (some 20,000), murder the president and
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