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The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
C. S. District Court. --This Court met on Saturday pursuant to adjournment, and transacted the following business: The petition of R. G. Farley, asking to be discharged from military service, and claiming to be illegally detained therein, was heard and rejected, and the said Farley committed to the custody of his Captain. The petition of James P. Oliver, for a discharge from military service, was continued till Monday, and the petitioner admitted to bail. W. A. Bass, asking to be discharged from military service, will undergo an examination on Thursday. The petition against John Chambers, asking to be discharged from military service, was continued till Wednesday at 11 o'clock, and the party admitted to ball. Reuben Rider was discharged from military service under a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that he was a shoemaker.
The Daily Dispatch: September 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
C. S. District Court. --E. A. Loring, claiming to be a mail contractor, or conductor, was discharged. The case of D. Sodini was further heard and continued till this morning. The cases of Jno. F. Chambers, Wm. H. Brower, At. Katon, Thomas E. Kinney., W. A. Bass, H. E. Johnson, P. E. Cottrell, and C. F. Robertson, were continued until tomorrow. After transacting other business the Court adjourned till this morning at 11 o'clock.
The Daily Dispatch: November 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Official Dispatch from Knoxville. (search)
arged him. Another case, which occupied the attention of the Court yesterday, was that of W. A. Bass, who had applied to be discharged from military service. Mr. Bass, in 1862, was exempt from mMr. Bass, in 1862, was exempt from military duty because of being an employee in the Examiner newspaper office. Some short time after he quit the Examiner, sought employment in the Danville Railroad Company's office, and afterwards lef, reporting him, was referred to the Secretary of War, and that official endorsed upon it that if Bass had been enrolled and detailed, then he was to be taken by the conscript officers. The conscript officers, with this endorsement, arrested Bass and sent him to the conscript camp. Mr. Daniel, the counsel for Bass, took the ground that he had never been conscripted and enrolled, and was not Bass, took the ground that he had never been conscripted and enrolled, and was not liable to military duty, as he had a legal exemption paper when arrested. Messrs. Aylett and Argust argued that the entering of his name on the book of exempts was an enrollment, and that he was