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The Daily Dispatch: October 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Letter from Lynchburg. (search)
here to-day, but little business of interest was transacted. Albert Wood a free negro, was tried for the murder of Mr. William J. Burton, company I, 30th Virginia volunteers, and sent on to the Circuit Court, which meets on the 3d of next month, for final trial.--Young Burton was from Stafford county, and was well spoken of by his comrades. On last Thursday evening, being engaged at one of the hospitals in this city, cooking rations for his company an altercation sprung up between him and the negro, (Wood,) which resulted in his untimely death, caused by a blow dealt by a Spade in the hands of the negro. The morning after the occurrence the negro was taken from the jail by a party of the friends of Burton, and would have been summarily dealt with but for the timely arrival of Gen. Corse, who, after some trouble, rescued the negro from the fate of Lynch law. From the cast of the evidence elicited in Court to-day nothing short of a miracle will save the negro from hanging. O. K.