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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Wright or search for Wright in all documents.
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Ranaway.--$100 Reward.
--Ranaway, on Monday, a Negro Boy, named Essex, about five feet eight inches high; black; stammers slightly; about twenty or twenty-two years old; weight about 150 pounds; formerly belonged to Capt. John.
Wright, of Plain View P. O., King and Queen county, Va. The above reward will be paid on his delivery to me at my office, in this city.
He may be making his way to West Point, Va. He has a wife in that neighborhood.
His upper teeth are dark, from tartar on them.
oc 23--ts Benjamin Davis.
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ranaway.--twenty Dollars Reward. (search)
From Norfolk.
return of military--Rev. A. E. Dickinson--relief for the Charleston sufferers — the defences of Norfolk — the markets &c.
[special correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk, Dec. 17, 1861.
The 3d Regiment of Georgia Volunteers, under charge of Col. Wright, returned from Roanoke Island yesterday, and are again comfortably quartered in the vicinity of Portsmouth.
Yesterday afternoon one of the members, while on a visit to this city, was accidently shot in the neck.
The wound though exceedingly severe may not prove fatal.
Rev. Mr. Dickinson, Superintendent of Army Colportage, has been in our city for the purpose of advancing the interests of the important and highly useful enterprise in which he is engaged.
I have not ascertained the amount that he has raised, but doubt not he has met with much encouragement in the prosecution of his good work.
A public meeting of our citizens, called by Mayor Lamb, was held yesterday, and solicitors appoi