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The Daily Dispatch: May 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Situation on the Rappahannock (search)
Captured. --Twenty-eight negro men, employed at the Carbon Hill Pits, in Chesterfield, were captured yesterday by Rogers's cavalry company, near Hanover Court-House, while making their way towards the Yankees. They were brought to this city yesterday and lodged in prison. Some of the negroes belonged to Col. John J. Worth, and had been advertised by him us runaways. Rogers's cavalry heard of their being near How Court-House, and, determining to catch them two of the company wrapped themselves in blue blankets and converted themselves into impromptu Yankees, and visited the negroes, who they found regularly encamped, with guards posted to prevent surprise. The donkeys inquired if they were Yankees, and they replied affirmatively and told them they would carry them to their "friends" They led them where our cavalry was and took them in custody.