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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
y 18, 1861. I write to give you a reliable account of a most unfortunate and distressing disaster which occurred in this town on last night, which resulted in the instant death of one of our most brightly esteemed and respected citizens, Col. Cameron, the probable death of a young man fifteen or sixteen years of age, son of Dr. McClung of this place, and the wounding of a Third Adjutant, Smith, a graduate of the V. M. Institute at the last session. The circumstances are briefly as follows inches in diameter, and severely lacerating the brain, portions of which were scattered over his perron and on the pavement around him. Up to this time (Thursday night) he is still alive but unconscious, and his recovery is almost beyond hope Col. Cameron, who was standing on the pavement near the platform, was the next and last struck. The ball entered the neck on the left side, just above the clavicle, passing backwards it was driven against the cervical vertibræ, and glancing from these cou