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The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
ave of Harriet Courtney, was punished with stripes for stealing a lot of lead from H. M. Smith. Thomas Dobson, a white boy, charged with stealing $8 and a gold locket from Chas. Miller, was committed to jail. Michael Leavi, charged with assaulting Alice White, failed to make his appearance when called. Delia Williams, arrested for arraying herself in man's apparel and making herself extremely ridiculous, was discharged with an admonition. The following fines were imposed for ordinance violations: R. R. & J. C. Woodson, $5, in consequence of the Refusal of their back-driver to take a passenger aboard when not otherwise engaged; Jos. Brizzolara, $5, for selling ardent spirits, without license; Geo. T. Smith, $5, for employing an unlicensed hack on the streets; James McGee, $10, for keeping his bar-room open after 10 o'clock P. M., and Jas. McDonald $20 for a like offence. Sixteen negroes were duly punished for assembling unlawfully in the kitchen of Dr. Gibson.
The Daily Dispatch: October 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], Another account of the battle on Greenbrier River. (search)
vance until our camp was put in a thorough state of defence. In less than thirty minutes we were ready to receive our enemy with — not open, but loaded arms. At 6 o'clock and 45 minutes our whole force of pickets — probably two hundred--holding an advantageous position in a short bend in the road, about one mile from camp, and under the immediate command of Col. E. Johnson, poured such a full and steady charge of musketry into their ranks as to confuse and scatter the whole column. Lieut. J. G. Gibson deserves to be mentioned here, (officer of the picket,) as being cool and calculating equal to any emergency. In this fight with our pickets, who were only driven back by a flank movement of the enemy, and in the thickest of which the intrepid Johnson was constantly seen, we lost, in killed and wounded, five men.--Our pickets being at last compelled to fall back from post to post, merely escaped behind our entrenchments, in a perfect shower of grape and canister. All of our availabl