Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Droop Mountain” in article 11 of The Daily Dispatch: December 4, 1863., [Electronic resource]:
... superintendent of the military telegraph lines in and around Charleston, was killed last week while hunting by the explosion of his gun.
Major R. A. Balley, of the 22d Va. regiment, wounded at Droop Mountain , Greenbrier Co., Va. has since died.
At a sale in Harris county, Ga., last week, mules brought the extraordinary price of $2,500 and $3,000 each — cash.
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