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The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Northern correspondence — Statement of deserters. (search)
tten a word concerning our batteries, their position, or their guns, which Gen. Gillmore did not with his own hand approve. A flag of truce. On Friday morning, at about 8 o'clock, Lieut.-Col. Jas. F. Hall, Provost Marshal General, and Capt. Brooks, aide-de-camp, left Gen. Gillmore's headquarters, bearing, under cover of a flag of truce, a sealed letter from the Union commander to the original rebel chieftain. It is understood that the document was a demand for the surrender of Morris Id a desire that the non-combatants, women and children, might accordingly be removed beyond the limits of the town. After proceeding to our batteries upon the left and notifying them to cease their firing at the proper time, Col. Hall and Capt. Brooks rode out to their parallels upon the right, and were soon among the sappers in the trenches at the front. Here, amid the storm of bullets and the occasional volleys of shrapnel which burst from Wagner, they frantically waved their white handk