2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Union officer’s letter, 1pp. written by Captain Horace Kellog to Mr. Jacob Fansler, datelined St. George, Tucker County, Va., November 28, 1862. In full, “ In consequence of certain robberies which have been perpetrated upon Union citizens of Tucker county, Va., by bands of guerrillas, you are hereby assessed to the amount of $142, one hundred forty-two dollars to make good their losses; and upon your failure to comply with the above assessment by paying the money over to me by the first day of December, 1862, the following order will be executed, viz: If they fail to pay at the end of the time you have named, their houses will be burned and themselves shot, and their property all seized. And be sure that you carry out this threat rigidly, and show them that you are not trilling or to be trifled with. You will inform the inhabitants for, ten or fifteen miles around your camp, on all the roads approaching the town, upon which the enemy may approach, that they must dash in and give you notice, and that upon failure of any one to do so their houses will be burned and the men shot." By order of Brig. Gen. R. H. Milroy, Captain Horace Kellogg, Commanding Post. By the fall of 1862 Imbodenís partisans plagued Union forces in western Virginia. Unable to suppress the partisans directly Milroy attempted to defeat them indirectly through threatening the Confederate civilian population with fines and death. In early November 1862 Milroy issued an order that levied a fine on Confederate sympathizers to compensate for the loss of property and life of a Union sympathizer lost as a result of Imbodení’s partisans.
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