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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Petersburg. (search)
arated forever" Two free negroes, Bonner and Temple, were tried and convicted of an attempt to commit a rape on a white girl, some three months ago. The former was sentenced to the penitentiary for twenty years, (he ought to have been hung,) and the latter for five years. The Court will meet to-morrow, when several criminal cases will be tried, among them Mr. Kershaw, for the murder of Lavelle, near two years ago. At an election in the Petersburg City Guard, on Friday, Corporal Wiley Branch was elected Junior Second Lieutenant, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the promotion of Capt. John P. May to Major of the 12th Virginia Regiment. Corporal Cogbill was appointed Orderly Sergeant. I learned late yesterday evening that the Monitor and four gunboats were at City Point, awaiting an opportunity to send forth their marauding parties to plunder that immediate neighborhood. City Point has been evacuated, the last to leave being an old negro woman. So they have full aw
The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], Arrest of suspicious Characters. (search)
Arrest of suspicious Characters. --On Saturday last, two soldiers, giving their names as Carter Martin and Charles Wright, and representing themselves to be members of Captain William H. Caskie's battery at Staunton, were apprehended by our pickets near Hanover C. H., and lodged in the jail of that county by order of General Branch, until their status could be more satisfactorily ascertained.