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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Company D, 11th Virginia Regiment.[For the Richmond Dispatch.] (search)
Poisoning. --The Mobile Tribune makes come corrections in its previous statement of a poisoning case, which was copied in this paper. It says: It appears they were moving the camp that morning, and the 1st Sergeant Harry Lawrence, 1st Corporal Phillip Hannan, and Privates Henry Myer, Peter Burns, and Moses Letzell, were detached from their company (Captain Smith's) to attend to the packing up the camp utensils &c, and in moving things about they found a bottle in a barrel of some articles, which had been thrown there by one of the officers, who, it seems had been sick, and that some quack had prescribed whiskey and yellow Jessamine for the disease, and the above-named gentlemen got hold of it and drank it, thinking it whiskey. The poison took effect almost instantly, as they died in about half an hour afterwards. One drink of it was reserved for a comrade, who, fortunately, was not present to take it. Phillip Bannan, we learn, was a resident of this city; the others we