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The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Culpeper, came over from Portsmouth yesterday, and are stationed some distance up the road. Enthusiasm here is great, and in the Old North State troops await orders to join us, and will come within seven hours notice. They are willing to come if their daily allowance is to be served out at three crackers per day. Some of the soldiers here, unused to our water, have in consequence taken sick.--Twenty-two are at this time inmates of our hospital. The two brothers of the young man, Smith, who died in Portsmouth a short time since, are both lying sick. They are properly cared for by the patriotic ladies of that city. I am glad to know an arrangement has been made whereby our soldiery at the various points will be allowed the benefits of religious worship. This is a commendable move, and one that must result in great good to the military. It is reported that Mrs. Pendergrast declines living with her husband, if he does not immediately resign. I cannot vouch for th
The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
Attempt to break jail. --An attempt to break out of the city jail was made on Friday night by the inmates of cell No. 4, whose names are Wm. Cummings, (bigamy,) Charley Smith, (forgery,) Thos. Wilkinson, (grand larceny,) and Franklin Richmond, (forgery.) The parties uprooted the floor and got under the jail; but finding the job of getting out by that means rather hard, gave it up, came to the surface, and went to sleep. Wilkinson is serving out a term of six months, preparatory to going to the Penitentiary, to which he has been sentenced. Some of the parties will no doubt be tried before Judge Lyons this week.