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The Daily Dispatch: April 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War News. (search)
bellion cannot be found in Illinois than the two infamous brothers, wm S. O'Hair, Sheriff of Edgar county, and John S O'Hair, Sheriff of Celes county. Their father is ex-Sheriff Mike O'Hair, of Edgar, and both are "chips of the old block," and of the three it may be said that it is a misfortune to the loyal cause that the three are out of reach of the rebel conscription, which would find them ready made to its uses, and far less dangerous to us in the rebel service. The share of Sheriff John O'Hair, of coles county, in the late disturbances, is set down in our despatches elsewhere. Both he and his brother are men of desperate character, and he seems to have led in the bloody work begun and carried out.--It was a deliberate and murderous attack on the soldiers and Union citizens, resulting in the loss of several lives, many wounded, and the flight of the assailants. It is noticeable in this case, as in Paris, Edgar county, a short time since, that the assembling was not a chanc