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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The war in the Southwest. (search)
yesterday, when the following facts were elicited: Sergeant McKenna had been sent out, with privates Coleman and Henderson, to hunt up deserters. They met Hays at the corner of 17th and Franklin streets, and knowing that he was a deserter, Coleman said he had been looking for him all day, and he must go to camp. He said he be d — d if he would, and jerked away from Henderson, who had hold of hiand were requested to capture Hays by the Sergeant and his party, their guns not being loaded.--Coleman loaded his gun, and Hays started on a run up 17th street. When between Marshall and Broad streeore that he would not go to camp, and presented his pistol. An officer who was present ordered Coleman to shoot, which he did, wounding the party in the leg and body with ball and buckshot. He was dier who shot Hays, who, they say, came to his death by several gun-shot wounds inflicted by Samuel Coleman while in the performance of his duty in arresting deceased, he having a drawn pistol on him