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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.election in Suffolk — sad accident — handsome parade. Suffolk, Va.,May 25, 1861. The election has passed over quietly, and although the vote is one of the largest ever polled, there is not one for Union. Messrs. Day, (for the Senate,) and Riddick, (for the House,) were elected without opposition. That miserable ad valorem amendment, which, (mark my prediction,) is to be the ground of future trouble in our glorious new Confederacy, was ratified by a large vote. It becomes my painful duty to record another sad casualty, which happened on yesterday to a member of the Smithfield Artillery, now stationed at Town Point Battery, near this place. It seems that at some call to arms, probably for drill, Mr. Frank Atkinson, son of Dr. Joe Atkinson, of Smithfield, caught his piece, which was lying on the ground in the tent, by the muzzle, and pulled it directly towards him, and in passing out the hammer was caught by something which so far