The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Fatal Accident at Camp Curtin.

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"Union Meeting" in Berkeley .

Execution of Richard white.

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Fatal Accident at Camp Curtin .

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Fatal Accident at Camp Curtin.

--On Thursday, while one of the Potter county volunteers was fixing a lock on a loaded rifle at Camp Curtin, near Harrisburg, Pa., it was prematurely discharged, and the ball passed directly through the head of a bystander named Geo. Madison, of Shippen, Cameron county, Pa., a member of the Cameron Rifles, killing him almost instantly.

The Daily Dispatch: may 20, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 20, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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