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The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], A touching incident. (search)
A touching incident. --A more touching incident than the following, published in the last number of the Southern Library Messenger, we have rarely read. It was in the dash of Gen. Stuart around the enemy's lines that Capt. Latance fell — His remains were taken care of by Lieut. Latane, his brother: Lieut. Latane carried his brother's dead body to Mrs. Brockenbrough's plantation an hour or two after his death. On this sad and lonely errand he met a party of Yankees, who followed him to Mrs. Brockenbrough's gate, and, stopping there, told him that as soon as he had placed his brother's body in friendly hands he must surrender himself a prisoner.* * * * Mrs. Brockenbrough sent for an Episcopal clergyman to perform the funeral ceremonies, but the enemy would not permit him to pass. Then with a few other ladies, a fair-haired little girl, her apron filled with white flowers, and a few faithful slaves, who stood reverently near, a pious Virginia matron read the solemn and beau