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The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], One hundred dollars reward. (search)
A hero Indeed. --A good deal of interest was felt at the time when the Confederate officers, prisoners on board the Maple Leaf, captured that steamer and made their escape to Currituck, in North Carolina. A correspondent of the Wilmington (N. C.) Journal furnishes the following instance of heroism connected with the affair, the hero of which is "a poor old man, bowed down with age and poverty." The writer says: A few days after their escape a squad of Federal cavalry in scouring the country to arrest them, came upon the subject of this notice — Dempsey kight by name — in the highway. A small tin bucket, which the old fisherman was carrying in his hand, attracted their attention. They halted and asked him if he had not been feeding the escaped rebel officers. Too proud to utter a falsehood, he unhesitatingly answered in the affirmative. Whereupon they demanded of him to reveal the place of their concealment, and with threats and blows sought to wrest it from him. But th