This immediately sprang out at me bringing to mind Pedosta and the Hog farm which, coincidentally, also happens to be in Virginia.

Lowes Island 1861

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:

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