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The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1865., [Electronic resource], The effect of Example.--
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The effect of Example.--playing "Confiscation."
--In the village of Herkimer, New York, last week, three boys, having, no doubt, read of the desolation of the Shenandoah Valley, engaged in playing "confiscation," as they termed it. They entered the house of a lady who was absent from home for a week or two, and spent the most of two whole days in destroying and mutilating everything in reach.
They ripped open and broke into pieces sofas and chairs, broke bureaus and mirrors, went into the cellar; taking all its contents in the way of preserves, molasses, vinegar, etc, up into the front parlor, and there spreading them out on carpet, and mixing them up with flour, feathers from the bed and almost every imaginable thing in the house.
They took up handfuls of butter and lard and threw them over the walls and furniture, and, in fact, exhausted all their ingenuity to perfectly destroy everything they could find. --They then proceeded to "confiscate" the school-house, entering it t