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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 2, 1863., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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John F. Hume, The abolitionists together with personal memories of the struggle for human rights, Chapter 23: Rolls of honor (search)
e army of emancipation. There were, also, privates in the ranks whose services richly deserve to be commemorated, showing, as they do, the character of the works they performed. The writer cannot resist the temptation to refer to two of them in particular, although, doubtless, there were many others of equal merit. A reason for the preference he shows in this case, that will not be misunderstood, is the fact that one of the men was his uncle and the other his father. James Kedzie and John Hume were plain country farmers residing in southwestern Ohio, neither very rich nor very poor. They were natives of Scotland, and stating that fact is almost equivalent to saying they were Abolitionists. None of the Scotch of the writer's personal knowledge, at the period referred to, were otherwise than strongly Anti-Slavery. There are said to be exceptions to all rules, and there was one in this instance. He was a kinsman of the author, and a braw young Scotchman who came over to this c
The Daily Dispatch: November 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], Traitors arrested. (search)
Traitors arrested. On Saturday week eight traitors were arrested in Rockingham and Augusta counties, and committed to jail in Harrisonburg, charged with disloyalty to the Government, and with aiding and piloting deserters from our army to the Yankee lines. Their names are John Yates, of Mount Sidney, Augusta county, and Samuel Wheelbarger, George Cooper, Daniel Cooper, George W. Rumsey, John Hume, Samuel Bowman, and Rev. William Dunlop, of Rockingham county.--Subsequently two others, named William Coffman and John O'Keister, of Rockingham, were arrested on the same charges.--The evidence of their guilt is said to be very clear. All of them, with the exception of Coffman, have been brought to Richmond, and we learn will undergo examination before Commissioner Watson this morning.