"At this time a number of Confederate prisoners, who had been taken in the first day's fight when our army fell back from , were brought to Washington, and on passing Willard's Hotel were set upon by the crowd who usually congregated there, and pelted with stones and other missiles, which seriously wounded a number. In order to prevent the prisoners from being actually torn to pieces a company of U. S. regulars had to be called out to protect them to their quarters, the ; and during the march to that point the soldiers had repeatedly to threaten to fire upon the mob, who pressed upon them with shouts and obscene revilings."
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