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William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington, chapter 10 (search)
The Daily Dispatch: April 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Horrible accident. (search)
The Legislature.
The Senate, yesterday, passed a large number of bills, among them one authorizing the Common Council of the city of Petersburg to declare what shall constitute an unlawful assembly of negroes, and to prescribe the punishment therefore.
The House passed Senate bills incorporating the Central Savings Bank, of the city of Richmond, and the town of Independence, in Grayson county.
A substitute was adopted for the joint resolution passed by the Senate, which authorizes the Governor to contract for the manufacture of arms.
A bill was reported for the incorporation of the Shooting Time Piece Manufactory, of Virginia. Senate amendments to the Covington and Ohio Railroad bill were agreed to. A report from the Armory Commissioners was read and ordered to be printed.
The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Excitement in Grayson county . (search)
Excitement in Grayson county.
--Considerable excitement exists in Independence, Grayson county, relative to the murder of James Taylor, by John Isom and his son Fielding, an account of which we published several days since.
The two Isoms, and John Green, charged with the murder of Rufus Cox, are confined in the jail at Independence, and on Thursday evening last, some thirty or forty persons from the neighborhood visited the place with the intention of hanging them.
They were however, persuaded to forego their purpose for that time, but determined to carry it into execution on Monday last.
The crowd called at the jail and informed the prisoners of their determination, and exhorted them to make their peace with God, and prepare to die on Monday, assuring them their execution was a fixed and unalterable fact.
The citizens were much excited on the matter, and it is thought the attempt to execute summary vengeance, how much soever the diabolical crimes of the accused deserved it,
Fatal duel.
--A duel was fought on the 16th inst., near Independence, in Grayson county, between a Captain Smith, of North Carolina, and Lieut. Scott, of the 63d Va. regiment, attached to the Army of Tennessee, in which the former gentleman was shot dead.