Nov 25, 2015
November 24, 1861: The day the Potomac ran red with blood at Lowe's Island
November 24, 1861: The day the Potomac ran red with blood at Lowe’s Island
On November 27, 1861, a note from John Hawkshurst, a Virginia civilian and unionist, arrived at Brigadier-General George McCall’s headquarters at Camp Pierpoint, Virginia. The note read:
The following is a list of the citizens that attacked four of our men on Lowe’s Island, killing two of them, and stripped and left them so that the hogs ate them: Dr. William B. Day, Dr. John Day, Thomas Carper,…
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