Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Middlesex county” in article pos=39 of The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1863., [Electronic resource]:
...bout 20 years old, of medium size, dark, but not black.
He is believed to be making off to the Yankees, though he may be still lurking about Richmond, or trying to make his way to the lower part of Middlesex county , where I have a farm, and where his mother lives. Benj. Temple. ja 16--6*
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