These were deserted, the doors open, and two of them exhibited evidences of fire.

A storehouse had its door battered in, a huge timber, evidently used as a ram, lying across the threshold, and many of the boxes and barrels within had been smashed with axes.

The ground all about had been trampled by horses' hoofs, and only a smouldering fragment of the stables remained.
I stared about perplexed, unable to decipher the meaning of such destruction.

Surely Grant would never dare such a deed with his unarmed force.

Besides Elmhurst was the property of a loyalist, ay! the Colonel of his regiment.