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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From North Alabama. (search)
e arrested, taken to Huntsville, and imprisoned in the court-house, or in law offices, &c., for such time as the caprice of the General or his Provost may direct, and then paroled. Numbers of citizens are thus treated without any apparent reason. When our informants left, some dozen citizens of the town and thirty odd citizens of the county were confined. Among the prominent citizens who have thus suffered, we remember the names of Ex-Gov Clay, Ex-Gov. Reuben Chapman, D. Thomas Fearn, Geo P. Beirne, and Rev. J. G. Wilson--though nearly every man of any prominence has, at some time or other, experienced this petty despotism. Ex-Gov. City, who is over seventy years of age and infirm, was ruthlessly taken from his plantation, in Jackson county, twenty miles from Huntsville, carried to town, confined two or three days and released on parole to remain in the city limits; the alleged Owned for this treatment being had fired on a railroad train containing Federal soldiers and on a r