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ave been so earnestly contending, shall have been at last achieved, and made sure and steadfast, beyond even the probability of future danger." Mr. Miles expressed his regret at the introduction of the resolutions. He thought silent contempt was the only proper means of treating the manifesto of the miserable despot at Washington. He therefore moved to lay the preamble and resolutions on the table, and the motion was agreed to. [Similar resolutions were afterwards introduced by Mr. Miller, of Va., and they took the same direction.] The bill for the organization of a Supreme Court was taken up from the calendar of the last session, and, after considerable discussion, its consideration was postponed until the 3d Monday in January, 1864. Mr. Chambliss, of Va., offered a resolution that the Military Committee inquire into the expediency of allowing the families of soldiers, who are refugees, to purchase from the Commissary nearest to them one ration per day, at Gover
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Trial of a Confederate soldier for murder. (search)
ey, of the C. S. Army, who made a dash on the train of McCook, the Yankee General, and killed McCook himself, is being tried by court-martial in Nashville for murder, he having been captured by the Yankees a few weeks since. A letter from Nashville, dated the 4th instant, and published in the Cincinnati Commercial, says: The evidence for the prosecution of the case of Gurley, the guerilla, who murdered Gen. McCook, of Ohio, closed to-day before the Military Commission, of which Col. John F. Miller, of the 29th Indiana, is President. The court granted a continuance of the case until the 13th, to enable Gurley to procure a witness among the rebel prisoners at Camp Chase. Capt. Hunter Brooke is the chief witness, having been present at the murder. Gurley plead not guilty, but outside the court admitted having shot Gen. McCook while acting as a soldier in the rebel service. It will be difficult to convince the court that Gurley was acting as a soldier at the time; for the rebel