Rockingham County’s Civil War Losses

County’s Losses by the Yankee’s Last Raid.

Through the kindness of a friend, in furnishing us with a number of old copies, of the Rockingham Register, ranging from 1861 to 1864, we shall be enabled from time to time to furnish some straps of history that may be of interest to our readers.

Rockingham’s Losses as copied from Rockingham Register of date, Nov. 11th, 1864.

The following is a fair and an accurate exhibit of the losses inflicted upon the great and noble county of the Old Commonwealth by the Yankees in their last raid up the Valley.

It has been obtained by our county court, after diligent effort and the employment of all the means necessary to approximate accuracy in such a calculation. The court, after being called together for this purpose, appointed a committee of 72 persons, consisting of 36 Magistrates and 36 citizens of respectability and standing, located in every section of the county, and after a careful and an accurate canvass of the county, they have furnished the estimate of the loses hereto appended:

Losses

Dwelling Houses Burned, 30
Barns Burned, 450
Mills Burned, 31
Fencing Destroyed (miles), 100
Bushels of Wheat Destroyed, 100,000
Bushels of Corn Destroyed, 50,000
Tons of Hay Destroyed, 6,233
Cattle Carried Off, 1,750
Horses Carried Off, 1,750
Sheep Carried Off, 4,200
Bogs Carried Off, 3,350
Factories Burned, 3
Furnace Burned, 1

In addition to which there was an immense ammount of farming utensils of every description destroyed, many of them of great value, such as McCormick’s reapers, threshing machines; also household and kitchen furniture, money, bonds, plate, &c., &c., the whole loss being estimated at the enormous sum of $25,500,000. This estimate is in Confederate prices, and should be reduced, we think, about one fifth, in order to bring it to the Government standard.

Has any other one county in the Confederacy suffered to the same extent.