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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
if necessary. The circulation of this news created consternation, and spread like wild fire, until some country boys came to town with their trusty rifles. In the meantime the prisoners were sent off to Harrisburg, by way of Lewiston, as the mob had threatened to waylay the guard between this place and Selinsgrove, if foiled in the attempt in town. The mob came within half a mile of town, when they learned that the prisoners were gone, upon which they turned back as they came. Samuel S. Lambert, who was charged with the business of notifying the drafted men of Kingfield, Mass, gives a full and explicit statement, in the Farmington Chronicle, of what occurred at Kingfield on his arrival there. He says when he drove into the village of Kingfield the first thing that attracted his attention was the store of Mr. Saunders, the enrolling officer, liberally besmeared with black paint, and groups of men at various points, much excited. When he arrived at the tavern he heard the cry