LETTER FROM LT. COL. FOWLER. – A FALSEHOOD CORRECTED.
Head-Quarters 14th Regt., N.Y.S.M.
Arlington Heights, July 24, 1861.
To the Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: A base falsehood has been circulated by the Washington papers, in relation to our Regiment breaking open and robbing houses in Fairfax as we passed through that place. The facts are that our Regiment was near the rear of the advancing column, and when the right of our Regiment reached the village, I stationed a reliable officer and proper guard to prevent any departure from the ranks at that place, and the Regiment marched through the village without halting until we had passed about one-half mile beyond it. There was no pillaging done by the 14th Regiment.
Yours, truly,
E. B. Fowler,
Lt. Col. 14th Regt., N.Y.S.M.
Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle, 7/25/1861
Contributed by John Hennessy
Edward Brush Fowler at Ancestry.com
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