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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 31 (search)
s memorable Order—Valuable Library and family Relics destroyed. Mrs. Margaret Letcher Showell, daughter of ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia, and wife of Mr. Robert J. Showell, a member of the Maryland Legislature, writes from her home in Berlin, Worcester county, Maryland, describing the burning of her father's home near Lexington, Virginia, in June, 1864, by General Hunter, upon the order of General Grant. Mrs. Showell says: Lexington had been shelled for three days by the advance guard of the battery, and terrific destruction marked the bursting shells and death dealing missiles, and though my father's house was a special aim of the cannon, it maise. The South swells the funeral processions of their great men with feeling hearts, and so the dead past buries its dead. In another part of her letter Mrs. Showell says: When the division of the Union Army under General Hunter passed through the Valley of Virginia it left a record like the proverbial new broom. All