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to a vote of the people, and Mr. Strunk, supposing that he would be permitted to vote as he pleased, when he gave his name at the election poll, and was asked how he intended to vote, replied for the Union.
Squire McClung, who was one of the commissioners to receive the votes, remarked that it was the first Union vote polled that day. As he said this, Wm. Howard, a violent secessionist, seized Mr. Strunk by the throat, dragged him some distance to a bank six feet high, over which he was thrown.
With the assistance of others, Howard then dragged him to a pond, into which they threw him. He crawled out, and was pushed back two or three times.
Howard drew a pistol from his pocket, and would have shot Mr. Strunk, but for the interference of a person in the crowd.
It was finally proposed that he should have three hours in which to leave the place, and he did leave within the specified time, abandoning all his property but such small articles as he was able to sell to the neighbors, who sympathized with him. One of them loaned him money, to enable him to reach Washington, which he did by the way of the Manassas Gap and Fairfax Court-House.--N. Y. Times, June 9.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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