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The Daily Dispatch: July 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 18 (search)
Examined. --Joseph G. Taylor, the Tennessee volunteer, who killed Lt. Davidson, some months since, at the Fair Grounds, near Lynchburg, was examined before Mayor Branch of that city on Thursday last, and sent on for further trial on the charge of murder.
The Daily Dispatch: October 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Lynchburg. (search)
nst the periodical freshets which it seems are inevitable. A painful occurrence took place at the encampment at the Fair Ground on Tuesday night last, the subject of which was a young man named Read, a member of Capt. Preston's Lynchburg battery. He was shot through both thighs by a sentinel, who, it is said, was intoxicated at the time of the sad occurrence. The wounds, though severe, are not regarded as necessarily fatal; though, in case of recovery, some time must elapse. Joseph G. Taylor, a soldier belonging to the First Tennessee regiment, who, it will be recollected, was charged with shooting and killing Lieutenant Davidson, of the same regiment, last spring, while encamped near this city, was discharged yesterday before an examining court, in accordance with the law which provides, in case the Commonwealth shall not be ready with its witness on the third calling of a case of this nature, that the prisoner shall be discharged. It is said that the main witness was kil
The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Set at liberty. (search)
Set at liberty. --Jos. G. Taylor, a Tennessee Volunteer, who shot Lieut. Davidson in Lynchburg last summer, and was afterwards brought to Richmond, where he was not court- martialed, has been discharged from custody. It appears that he was carried to Tennessee, and there liberated by an examining Court, the witnesses having failed to appear.
The Daily Dispatch: October 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Last days of the Convention. (search)
b.--The Lynchburg Republican of yesterday, has the following particulars of a shocking affair which took place near Fayetteville, Tenn: We have received intelligence from a most reliable gentleman of Tennessee, who knows the fact, that Joseph G. Taylor, who killed Lieut. Davidson in this city several months and was discharged by an Examining Court, on the ground that three terms of the Court had passed and the Commonwealth was not prepared for trial, was hung on the evening of the 19th i 19th inst., by the friends and neighbors of Lt. Davidson. It seems that Taylor returned to his home, near Fayetteville, in Lincoln county, Tennessee, after his discharge from here, and the people of the neighborhood, of which Lt. D. was also a resident, determined to take the law in their own hands and execute summary vengeance, and at 4 o'clock, on the 19th, the unfortunate man was launched into eternity — the brother of Lt. Davidson adjusting the rope around his neck with his own hands.