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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Trouble in Western North Carolina. (search)
Trouble in Western North Carolina. Accounts have reached us of a difficulty, which to be serious in the Western portion of North Carolina. About 2 o'clock on the morning of the 9th ult. some twenty five armed men visited Waynesville, Haywood county, and demanded the release of a man named Franklin, who was convicted of murder at a recent term of the Court, and was under sentence of death. The Jailor, having no force to resist the demand, was seized and held, white Franklin was released and carried off is triumph. The party represented themselves as from East Tennessee, and said they had a reserve of three hundred armed men to back up their demand. They threatened, if resisted, to burn the town. Subsequently a courtier arrived at the town of Ashville, in quest of powder, who stated that an army of several hundred men from East Tennessee was regularly fortified on the line between Haywood county and Tennessee. Some reports put the number at 1,100 but it is not believed to
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Fredericksburg. (search)
er, graduated second in his class at West Point, and in addition to the control of this battalion, has in a few days past been put in command of all of Gen. Longstreet a artillery, besides being connected with the Orderliness Department. He has rather more than one man can do. He was assigned to our battalion about a fortnight ago. The equipment of this battalion is very fine. The following are the batteries — half of the guns were captured: Jordan's hatt's, Monday's, Eubanks,s, Parker's, and Woolfolk's. In the battalion there are 760 men and 410 horses and mules. To supply the command with forage demands a good deal of energy on the part of the Quartermaster. Lieut. P. A. Franklin, of Parker's battery, has been lately commissioned Quartermaster, with the rank of Captain, and Sergeant George E. Saville has been elected to fill his place in the battery. The health of the battalion is remarkably good, In the company to which I belong there is not a man unfit for duty. A. B. C.