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The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The War News. All continues quiet on the lines below Richmond. All day yesterday not a sound was heard except the distant shelling of Dutch gap by our river batteries. This shelling was heavier yesterday morning than on any previous day. It is much to be regretted that some of our own men, prisoners in Butler's hands, may be hurt by our own fire. He has now at hard labor in the canal, and exposed our fire, eighty-six of the last prisoners he took from us; among whom is Major Henley, formerly commandant of the Third Virginia battalion, F. L. D. Butler says his treatment of these men is in retaliation for our having put a number of Yankee negro prisoners to work on Fort Gilmer, which alleged fact he says he learns from deserters from our army. There is no truth in the statements of these deserters; indeed, it has been long known that deserters never tell the truth; they invariably concoct some story to make themselves acceptable to the party to whom they go. The real facts
The Daily Dispatch: October 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
der of the Army of the Potomac. Capture of two of the Local forces. The following paragraph, in a letter to the New York Times from Butler's army, will assure the friends of the two citizens of Richmond named of their safety: Among the prisoners brought to headquarters two nights since were a pair of remarkable characters, both F. F. V.'s, and employees in the Treasury Department at Richmond, one in the Comptroller's office and the other in the Fourth Auditor's. Their names are Henley and McRae. These gentlemen are both in the "sear, and yellow" time of life, the latter having been relieved from duty as a major in the rebel service, some time since, on account of his age. Their story is, that they were compelled to take the field last week, and were placed on picket duty, as persons who could be trusted not to desert. On being relieved by the corporal of the guard, they moved off, as they believed, in the direction of their camp, and accidentally walked into our lines,