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The Daily Dispatch: August 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
forces, New Orleans, La: General — I have received petitions from officers of the 1st regiment Louisiana Partizan Rangers touching the case of Henry Castle, a private of company H. of that regiment, and also an application respecting Thomas C. Pennington, a private of Capt. Wilson Tate's company, of the same regiment, and I deem it expedient to request your early consideration of the subject. It appears that private Castle was captured by a detachment of Federal troops in the vicinity of Baton Rouge, on or about the 7th of the present month, and private Pennington on or about the 28th day of June; that they were taken to New Orleans, and are now held either there or at one of the forts in the vicinity in close confinement; with the threat that they are to be tried and executed as members of a military organization not ctioned by the laws of civilized warfare. It is to be observed that the first great law of nature, the right of self-defence, is inherent in communities as well