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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
eize all the medicine and hospital stores in the Federal hospital, thus depriving about 400 of our wounded troops of medical treatment. A part of the medicines were subsequently restored by order of Gen. Price. With a few exceptions our sick and wounded are doing well, and will be able to return to their homes in a few days. All our wounded could not be brought off the field in consequence of the scarcity of wagons, but they were treated where they lay. Jefferson City, Mo.--George R. Smith, of Pettis county, has been appointed Adjutant General of the State, and John Howe, Police Commissioner for St. Louis. The following has already been foreshadowed by telegraph: Rolla, Mo., Aug. 24.-- Lieut. Col. Albert, of the Third Missouri, and eight or ten other officers who have been prisoners at Springfield, arrived here this morning. They were released on parole, subject, however, to such arrangement as may have been entered into between the Confederates and the United
The Daily Dispatch: July 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Paroled for Exchange. (search)
Paroled for Exchange. --On Saturday, Capt. Chas. J. Whiting. of the 5th U. S. cavalry, was paroled to return home and effect a special exchange of himself for Capt. Geo. R. Smith, C. S. A., who was taken prisoner at Rich Mountain last summer and paroled by the enemy, and who was thought long since to have been exchanged, measures having been taken to that end months since. There is hardly a doubt but that the Federal Captain will succeed in his mission.
The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], A case of Yankee barbarity. (search)
Yankee invader in Virginia, none have exceeded the murder of Mrs. George R. Smith. at Suffolk, a full account of which we take from the Petersburg Express: Mr. Smith resided about one mile from the town, a well to do farmer, having around him an interesting family, the eldest d Suffolk a sharp artillery and infantry skirmish took place near Mr. Smith's residence, and many balls passed through his house. The Yankeeally advanced and fired the houses, forcing the family to leave. Mrs. Smith, with her seven children, the youngest only ten months old, at ted.--The children, frightened, hid themselves in the bushes, while Mr. Smith sat down upon the ground by his wife, to see her breathe her last the graveyard. Nor did the ernest of the fiends stop here. Mr. Smith was denied the privilege of going in search of his little childrehan his associates, took it on his horse and carried it to town. Mr. Smith is still in the lines of the enemy, his house and everything else
The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
, robbing them of everything they wanted, amounting to thousands of dollars in the aggregate; destroyed all the tools in M. Faulk's saddlery, and all the shoemaking tools in the shops of Ira Holloway, George Bartiett and Wright Pinner, also the blacksmith tools of Wm. Cherry. They robbed the residence of Benjamin Herrell, an old man of nearly 80 years, of everything he possessed that could be carried off; stole a watch from J. E Bonnewell, and numerous other articles from A. M. Chamiel, Geo. R. Smith and others. Scarcely any one escaped. And worse than this, two of the most respectable ladies in the town, ladies of high social position and refined feelings, being found with no male defenders near, were grossly insulted with propositions and attempted violence too indelicate to appear in print. These ladies were forced to defend themselves with knives against great black, greasy buck negroes, whilst their friends were away in the army. This fiendish proceeding has produced a s