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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
of Dr. Joe Atkinson, of Smithfield, caught his piece, which was lying on the ground in the tent, by the muzzle, and pulled it directly towards him, and in passing out the hammer was caught by something which so far lifted it that when it fell the piece discharged, and fired a large ball and several buckshot diagonally through Mr. Atkinson's bowels. He lived fourteen hours after the accident. His remains were transported to Smithfield. He was a very popular and promising young man, and a nephew of the Hon. Archibald Atkinson. A company of Southampton Cavalry, numbering about eighty men, well mounted and armed, arrived here last evening, and are quartered at the Fair Ground. While I write, they are on parade, in company with our Nansemond Cavalry, and the appearance of the two together would frighten a host of Old Abe's minions. The news of the invasion of our beloved State is hailed with joy, as affording an occasion to hurt somebody. May it be none of ours! Ego.