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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1861.., [Electronic resource], A base and wilful Liar. (search)
At Mathias' Point all has been quiet for the past ten or twelve days. There have been some cases of sickness among the soldiers there, but none have as yet proved fatal. A most melancholy accident occurred in our midst on Monday last Mr. Wm. J. W. Greer and C. H. Spilman, the former a resident of this county and Postmaster at Shiloah, the latter a son of Mr. Wm. L. Spilman of Westmoreland, while bathing with a party of other gentlemen in Rosier's Creek. were swept off by the current and drowned. Their bodies have since been recovered. Mr. Greer leaves a large family, upon whom the saddest affliction has fallen by this melancholy occurrence. He was a man of the most generous impulses, kind and affectionate in his family, and highly esteemed as a friend and neighbor. Young Spilman, though but a lad, was universally beloved. Brave almost to a fault, yet so amiable in his disposition and exhibiting such manly and noble traits of character as to endear himself to all with whom