The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Justifiable shooting.

--A portion of the Confederate States. Army is now posted at Grafton, in Taylor county, Va., for the purpose of preserving order and preventing the incursion of armed bands of lawless ruffians, either of home or foreign extraction. Last Friday, a fellow named Brown, a blatant, wide-mouth abolitionist and bully. for a long time the terror of the peaceful citizens of that region, swore he would pass the chain of sentinels established round the post at Grafton, for which purpose he made towards the soldier in charge, swearing he would go by, despite military rule or any other preventive. The soldier remonstrated with him, and ordered him to halt, instead of doing which he drew a pistol and discharged it at the guard, the bail striking obliquely on the forehead near the eye, cutting to the bone and going out at the back of the head. The soldier was knocked down, but soon ascertaining that he was not dead, he rose and discharged his piece at Brown, whom he instantly killed. If a jury were to set on the fellow's carcase, it would only return a verdict of served him right.