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Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 9 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource] 6 0 Browse Search
James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States. 6 0 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 6 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], H. W. Beecher. (search)
, and in this instance, contrary to the usual course of rumors at the present day, the report turned out to be true. It appears that Messrs. Washington J. Worsham and James McCullough had a misunderstanding in regard to a business matter, and in consequence of certain expressions not altogether agreeable, the latter sent Mr. Worsham a challenge, which was accepted. On Saturday morning, the parties, with a number of friends and several surgeons, repaired to Broad Rock Race Course, in Chesterfield county, a few miles from Richmond, and, shortly before nine o'clock, fought with pistols, at a distance of ten paces. The reports were simultaneous, and both fell at the first fire, badly wounded. Mr. Worsham was struck near the right thigh, the ball passing through his body; and his antagonist was hit nearly in the same place, but the ball took a different course, inflicting a painful injury, though by means so dangerous as the other. It is almost impossible to conceive of more accurate