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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1861., [Electronic resource].
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Albion (search for this): article 12
Metairie Races
--Third Day--The race over this course on Thursday was for a club purse of $500. There were only two competitors — W. J. Minor's ch. c. Equinax and D. F Kenner's bl. f. Albion. The former won the race in three straight heats.
Time--1:46; 1:47 ½ 1:48
W. J. Minor (search for this): article 12
Metairie Races
--Third Day--The race over this course on Thursday was for a club purse of $500. There were only two competitors — W. J. Minor's ch. c. Equinax and D. F Kenner's bl. f. Albion. The former won the race in three straight heats.
Time--1:46; 1:47 ½ 1:48
Kenner (Louisiana, United States) (search for this): article 12
Metairie Races
--Third Day--The race over this course on Thursday was for a club purse of $500. There were only two competitors — W. J. Minor's ch. c. Equinax and D. F Kenner's bl. f. Albion. The former won the race in three straight heats.
Time--1:46; 1:47 ½ 1:48
Thomas Jones (search for this): article 12
A soldier shot by a Woman.
--Last night, about 7½ o'clock, a party of five soldiers, belonging to the Jeff.
Davis Rebels, Captain Jones, being on the way to visit a camp across the Bayon, when opposite a house near the latter place, a woman by the name of Mary E. Gibson came to the door with a pistol in her hand, and without any further ceremony, cause or provocation, fired away at the soldiers, the shot taking effect in the left breast of Jerry Lavender, one of the company.
The wound is not thought to be fatal, though it is said to be quite serious.
The woman was arrested and her case will be properly disposed of.--Vicksburg (Miss.) Citizen, 11th.
Mary E. Gibson (search for this): article 12
A soldier shot by a Woman.
--Last night, about 7½ o'clock, a party of five soldiers, belonging to the Jeff.
Davis Rebels, Captain Jones, being on the way to visit a camp across the Bayon, when opposite a house near the latter place, a woman by the name of Mary E. Gibson came to the door with a pistol in her hand, and without any further ceremony, cause or provocation, fired away at the soldiers, the shot taking effect in the left breast of Jerry Lavender, one of the company.
The wound is not thought to be fatal, though it is said to be quite serious.
The woman was arrested and her case will be properly disposed of.--Vicksburg (Miss.) Citizen, 11th.
Jerry Lavender (search for this): article 12
A soldier shot by a Woman.
--Last night, about 7½ o'clock, a party of five soldiers, belonging to the Jeff.
Davis Rebels, Captain Jones, being on the way to visit a camp across the Bayon, when opposite a house near the latter place, a woman by the name of Mary E. Gibson came to the door with a pistol in her hand, and without any further ceremony, cause or provocation, fired away at the soldiers, the shot taking effect in the left breast of Jerry Lavender, one of the company.
The wound is not thought to be fatal, though it is said to be quite serious.
The woman was arrested and her case will be properly disposed of.--Vicksburg (Miss.) Citizen, 11th.
Vicksburg (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): article 12
A soldier shot by a Woman.
--Last night, about 7½ o'clock, a party of five soldiers, belonging to the Jeff.
Davis Rebels, Captain Jones, being on the way to visit a camp across the Bayon, when opposite a house near the latter place, a woman by the name of Mary E. Gibson came to the door with a pistol in her hand, and without any further ceremony, cause or provocation, fired away at the soldiers, the shot taking effect in the left breast of Jerry Lavender, one of the company.
The wound is not thought to be fatal, though it is said to be quite serious.
The woman was arrested and her case will be properly disposed of.--Vicksburg (Miss.) Citizen, 11th.
Dupont (search for this): article 12
Dispatches from Capt. Dupont.
--A telegraphic dispatch from Washington, Dec. 12th, says:
Captain Dupont, in his communication to the Navy Department, dated December 4th, says that the apprehension of losing possession of the Bay at St. Helena, so exceedingly valuable for a harbor, for its proximity to Charleston, and for the command it secures of large rivers supplying interior communication with South Carolina, induced him to dispatch a second expedition there, under Commander DraytCaptain Dupont, in his communication to the Navy Department, dated December 4th, says that the apprehension of losing possession of the Bay at St. Helena, so exceedingly valuable for a harbor, for its proximity to Charleston, and for the command it secures of large rivers supplying interior communication with South Carolina, induced him to dispatch a second expedition there, under Commander Drayton, with orders to hold the island until Gen. Sherman is prepared to assume military occupation of it, when he will transfer the Fort to his troops.
Drayton (search for this): article 12
Dispatches from Capt. Dupont.
--A telegraphic dispatch from Washington, Dec. 12th, says:
Captain Dupont, in his communication to the Navy Department, dated December 4th, says that the apprehension of losing possession of the Bay at St. Helena, so exceedingly valuable for a harbor, for its proximity to Charleston, and for the command it secures of large rivers supplying interior communication with South Carolina, induced him to dispatch a second expedition there, under Commander Drayton, with orders to hold the island until Gen. Sherman is prepared to assume military occupation of it, when he will transfer the Fort to his troops.
Washington (search for this): article 12
Dispatches from Capt. Dupont.
--A telegraphic dispatch from Washington, Dec. 12th, says:
Captain Dupont, in his communication to the Navy Department, dated December 4th, says that the apprehension of losing possession of the Bay at St. Helena, so exceedingly valuable for a harbor, for its proximity to Charleston, and for the command it secures of large rivers supplying interior communication with South Carolina, induced him to dispatch a second expedition there, under Commander Drayton, with orders to hold the island until Gen. Sherman is prepared to assume military occupation of it, when he will transfer the Fort to his troops.