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The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Painful Casualty (search)
From Norfolk.[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk, Va., June 28, 1861.
Mr. Thompson, who was freight agent on the sloop of Capt. Adams', lately captured at Old Point, returned to our city on Wednesday, after being confined on board the Cumberland three weeks. He says he was treated most shamefully, and that the officers on board swear eternal vengeance on the South.
His allowance consisted of boiled rice during the whole of this time — that he refused to take the oath, after repeated efforts to force him, and that after nearly starving, and when, in consequence, death might have followed a refusal, then, and not till then, was the oath of allegiance extorted from him. This is another exhibition of spirit, showing the character of Southern resistance.
It is needless to say that Mr. Thompson was welcomed here with warm hearts by his many friends, while the joy to greet him will be equally felt by those of his more intimate connections in Smithfield.
While Mr. T
The remains of Gen. Garnett
The remains of Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garnett were brought to Baltimore on the 18th inst., by Adams & Co.'s Express.
Messrs. Benjamin M. Garnett (his cousin) and C. K. Hodges discharged the melancholy duty of receiving them.
They were deposited, (as the most suitable place at present,) in the Mausoleum at Greenmount Cemetery, there to await the future arrangements of his more immediate relatives.
Aletter says:--"I am glad to be able to say, that he was remarkably well cared for, his body having been placed in an excellent metallic coffin enclosed in a substantial box. With a view to see if anything further was necessary for the preservation of the corpse, we had the coffin opened and found nothing needed, it being in excellent condition.
The fatal wound he received must have been as stated in the papers; the hole in the breast being quite visible, about an inch in length, and half an inch wide." The Baltimore Exchange, in a brief notice on the occa
How the Lincoln despotism is represented abroad.
--Mr. Adams, Lincoln's new Minister to England, is said to have gone to Court in a dark blue coat, the collar, cuffs and flaps embroidered with gold, white small clothes, white silk stockings, low shoes, and to have carried a sword.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.affairs in Norfolk. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 3d, 1861.
The trial of Claiborne Hughes, charged with killing Lieut. Adams, came up again yesterday.
Bail was again denied him, and he was sent on to the Superior Court, in November.
The doting mother and affectionate sisters and brother of the prisoner were present; but their deep anxiety could effect nothing in his behalf.
A gentleman of the Alabama Regiment, of which the deceased was a member, in representing the Commonwealth, feelingly spoke of the dear friends and relatives of Lieut. A., among whom there is deep mourning to-day.
The Richmond Grays were paid off yesterday.
Luna.
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Current events. (search)
Died of their Wounds.
--J. A. Burton, of the 7th Georgia Regiment, died at Bellevue Hospital on the 8th inst.
L. S. Nolan, 5th S. C. Regiment, died at the same place on the 7th.
These two were buried with appropriate services in the soldiers' section at Hollywood Cemetery.
The remains of Mr. Adams, of the 8th Georgia Regiment, who died at Bellevue on the 7th, were taken to Nelson county, Va., by his brother.
J. R. Atkinson, Jr., 8th Georgia Regiment, died on the night of the 9th inst., at the house of Mr. Wilderman, on Broad street. His remains are in the care of near relatives, who were with him at the time of his death.
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Notice to our subscribers. (search)