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The Daily Dispatch: October 28, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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y several who had been left behind, but who had succeeded in dodging the guard, so determined were they to take part in the first enterprise which promised an exposure to danger. Lieut. Jas. Wharton, of Washington county, who is attached to Capt. Palmer's cavalry, of Colonel Harlan's regiment, claimed the privilege to accompany the expedition. He is a gallant officer, and should opportunity offer he will not fail to win distinction. I have just heard how Col. John M. Harlan and Capt. Jos. G. Wilson, of your city, escaped a trap which had been set for them by the rebel scouts, who fell into the hands of the Federal pickets as prisoners of war. They left the vicinity of Hongensville on Sunday evening, on horseback, having reason to believe it would be unsafe for them to remain over night in that locality, and were congratulating themselves upon a narrow escape when they were confronted by the pickets from Col. Willich's Indiana regiment, a distance of three miles from New Haven.