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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 27, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
Clearing out a Nest of deserters. The deserters who form themselves into bands in Mississippi to rob the country do not seem to have a very quiet time of it. A letter in the Mobile Advertiser, from Gainesville, Mississippi, gives an account of Seals's band, in Jones and Perry counties. It says: "Seals soon came across two soldiers, Daniel McCall and John Knight, who had been captured at Port Hundson and paroled, and lately exchanged, and told them that they should join him or leave the country. They left, but soon returned and captured four of his men, two of whom they hung, and shot another. This encouraged the citizens, who soon organized and went in pursuit of the outlaws. In their first day's scouting they captured five,--two Smiths, one Leonard and one Holleman,--with stolen horses, cattle, bed-clothes and bedding in their possession. They were tried and sentenced to be shot. These men made confessions, implicating some forty-two others. The next day, they capt