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The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five hundred dollars reward. (search)
ed like a felon in a jail in Cumberland, Maryland, whence he has contrived a letter to his wife describing the ignominious treatment to which he had been subjected. But, with the spirit of a patriot and the love of a father, he says to his children and grandchildren, that "the liberty and independence of themselves and their native land is worth all that I have done or suffered, and as much more as I may be called on to do or suffer." It is supposed that he is especially indebted to Mr. David F. Strother, better known as "Porte Crayon," for the distinction conferred on him by the Yankees of treating him with especial cruelty. A communication has been made to "Porte Crayon" by the brave sons of the venerable prisoner at Cumberland upon the strength of this fact or supposition, as it may be, which will be not at all agreeable to him. Unless he clears his skirts of the accusation, he must, as long as he or any of those young Confederates live, be held to an account that must be always