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The Daily Dispatch: June 5, 1862., [Electronic resource], The recent skirmish near Pocotaligo, S. C. (search)
ces, on Friday, followed in their footsteps, and fired some sh from Elliott's battery at the ferry house, on the opposite side of the river. The losses of the enemy were one captain and two privates, of the 50th Pennsylvania regiment, killed, and six wounded. We also took Corporal Frederick Bishop, of the 8th Michigan regiment, prisoner, who has been sent to this city. He is a Prussian by birth. Privates Goddard and Lawton were sent with dispatches to Colonel Walker; they took the Stony Creek road, by which the Yankees had retreated, instead of the Sheldon Church road, and soon came upon the Yankees. Dr. Goddard was shot dead. Private Lawton found himself surrounded by armed men, but he put spurs to his horse and dashed off. The enemy fired at him, and a buckshot or small pistol ball passed through his lung. He reached camp and received every attention, but the wound is reported as rather serious. Although quite young, he has been in the war from the beginning, sharing the