Note 64 — XVII. BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA.

“We marched pretty quiet for about two miles, when they began to pepper us again. We were now obliged to force almost every house in the road, for the rebels had taken possession of them and galled us exceedingly; but they suffered for their temerity, for all that were found in the houses were put to death.” “Diary of a British Officer,” Atlantic Monthly, April, 1877.

Earl Percy made the tavern of Mr. Munroe his headquarters.

“A party entered the tavern and, helping themselves, or rather compelling the inmates of the house to help them to whatever they wanted, they treacherously and with ruthlessness shot down John Raymond, an infirm old man, only because he, alarmed at this roughness and brutal conduct, was about leaving the house to seek a place of greater safety.” Hudson’s Hist. of Lexington.