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The Daily Dispatch: August 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], The war spirit at the North. (search)
an, of Henrico, fell in yesterday with a suspicious looking military character on the Meadow Bridge, about six miles from Richmond. He said that he was going to Old Church to see a man named Carpenter, and as he was altogether out of the way for such a destination, and no such man on Carpenter was there, Mr. Short suspected that he was an escaped prisoner, and, after a little more questioning, accused him of it, which he stoutly denied, of course, but afterwards admitted that he was a Yankee Lieutenant, escaped from one of the tobacco factories on Main street. Mr. Short compelled him to return to town, and delivered him up to the proper authorities. The prisoner stated that a number of others had also escaped. A gentleman from Powhatan informs us that several men, representing themselves to be deserters from a South Carolina regiment, but believed to be escaped prisoners, had entered a house in his neighborhood and demanded dinner — a style of visitation not characteristic of Carol