Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Dahlonega, Ga.” in article 18 of The Daily Dispatch: November 12, 1860., [Electronic resource]:
..., and Dr. Moffit, which resulted in the death of the latter by a pistol shot in the hands of the former.
The difficulty originated about which of the two gentlemen should vote a drunken floater. In Dahlonega, Ga. , on the 4th instant, Gen. Riley, member of the Georgia Senate, from Lumpkin county, was fired upon by a man named Davis, while sitting at his own fireside, and mortally wounded.
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