Mobile Advertiser & Register
June 9, 1861
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Intelligence.
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We have accounts
of dreadful outrages perpetrated at Hampton
by the invaders, who plundered, insulted and abused, men, women and children,
committing atrocious acts of violence.
The Richmond Dispatch has the following comment:
We have never
heard in civilized warfare of such outrages as those perpetrated at Hampton. We are well aware that, in European battles,
after a desperate fight and the taking of a city by storm, defenceless
women have been the victims of a fate worse than death, but we venture to say
that no example can be found of a people going to war and deliberately
preaching in advance such unspeakable brutality, and actually exorcising it
upon the inhabitants of peaceable and unresisting communities. With the exception of the Sepoys,
and the cruelties inflicted by the Druses upon the Syrian Christians, we do not
remember to have heard of such a scene of horror as that at Hampton.
We take the
following from the Virginia
papers:
Further Outrages at Hampton.—When
the vandals from the North occupied Hampton, an officer with a squad of men
went to the store of Mr. P. Lattimer, and demanded
possession. Mr. Lattimer
replied that he had purchased and paid for his stock of goods, and the officer
might have them at their valuation. The
officer said he would have the goods and store and not pay a cent for them, and
drawing his sword slapped Lattimer with it on the
face. Lattimer
then drew a revolver and fired it, when the officer fell. He then leaned over the counter and fired
three more shots in the body, causing death.
Lattimer was, of course, captured, and taken
to Old Point and hung on Friday last.
The officer killed
is said to be a Lieutenant in one of the companies, and distinguished for
military abilities. He has met a dog’s
death in a dog’s cause.
Mr. W. C. Marrow;
of Hampton, was
also treated in a most shameful and indecent manner. He was captured in the town, having his
uniform on, stripped stark naked, marched through the streets in that
condition, and then carried to Fort
Monroe as a
prisoner. Can such things be done in
this enlightened age and not rouse to boiling heat the blood of every
Southerner.
