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The Daily Dispatch: September 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], 100 dollars reward. (search)
The capture of Major McCann. --The Nashville Union, (Yankee, of course,) has an account of the capture of Major Dick McCann, the famous Major Dick McCann, the famous Tennessee "guerilla," at Weams's Springs, near that city. The capture was made by two companies of Federal cavalry, and this is the way it was done: McCann's men were laying siege to a hearty breakfast, their horses were in the stables, they themselves unconscious of the presere now cut off by Captain Clifford's force, which had then come up. McCann himself seeing his moment of preparation for a fight had passed, reaping through the dense forest. On approaching Captain Mackey, McCann endeavored to conceal his rank — a star on his left breast — and onthat in his prisoner he recognized the off-described features of Dick McCann, and said, "You can come no game on me; you are Dick McCann." HeDick McCann." He replied, "Yes, sir, I am Major J. R. McCann, and I am your prisoner." He and his men were lodged in jail in this town on Wednesday night and