Gen. Magruder commands on the Peninsula. President Tyler had
a villa near Hampton, which the Yankees despoiled in a barbarous manner. They
cut his carpets, defaced the pictures, broke the statues, and made kindling
wood of the piano, sofas, etc.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the
Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 71
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