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The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Handsome affair near Smithfield.--capture of Yankees and Destruction of a gunboat. (search)
oth of the guard fired their muskets at him, a moral and ghastly wound. The ball entered the back part of his head, about one inch to the right of the left car, coming out of his left eye, and tearing away in its progress about half of his front scalp. Keene was originally from Washington city, D. C., but had for a number of years been a resident of this city. He has acted as pilot at different times on board the steamers Schulz and West Point the former of which he left for the purpose of accepting the position of master's mate on board the Beaufort. When sober he was regarded as a good officer and a peaceable man, but when intoxicated seemed bereft of reason. The jury of inquest, conducted under the auspices of Alderman L. F. Chandler, in the absence of Coroner Sanxay, rendered as their verdict that "Samuel Keene came to his death from musket ball fired at him by privates Cotton and Rowell, in the discharge of their duty as faithful guards of the Confederate States."