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J. Newton Terrill, memoir

in reference to July 1864

“Frederick City was filled with rebel wounded, as our boys had made every shot tell; if the first line were missed they were sure to hit one of the rear lines. Two hundred thousand dollars was demanded from the citizens, or the place would be laid in ashes; the amount was paid by the banks; the city was pillaged and the houses robbed.”


Author

Name: J. Newton Terrill

Unit: 14th New Jersey Volunteers

Document Information

Type: Memoir

Subject(s):

  • Military/Battles

Event Location: Frederick City, Frederick Co., MD

Document Origin: N/A

Source

Terrill, J. Newton, Campaign of the Fourteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, New Brunswick, N.J.: Daily Home News Press, 1884, 76.