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The Daily Dispatch: November 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 20 (search)
and was very well known in this vicinity. This lamentable affair is the first that has occurred in our army from the use of liquor, although we see by the papers they are common in Washington and in the Federal army. For many weeks Major Cornelius Boyle, the Provost Marshal, has done all in his power to prevent the sale of liquor to soldiers, but still they manage to purchase it in some manner from the citizens residing near, who smuggle it into them, in various ways. Several men have been tried before Major Boyle, have endured the penalty of their offence and immediately after their release have been detected in a repetition of it. In this case both the murderer and the man who furnished him the liquor upon which he got into a drunken frenzy have been arrested. Which of the two deserves the greater punishment?. Yesterday evening Mr. C. B. A. Weedon, a member of the Prince William Cavalry, was returning to his company from a visit to his mother and sisters, when his hor