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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], Passing Counterfeit money. (search)
oro, the enemy at that place, all unconscious of their approaching doom, was holding a drum-head court for the trial of numerous citizens of the vicinity accused of shooting the Yankee pickets. They had condemned quite a number to be hung — among them master Charley Ridley, a youth of sixteen, entirely innocent of the offence charged, but a most acceptable victim, inasmuch as he was the son of Bloomfield L. Ridley, one of the Judges of the Chancery Court of Tennessee, whose brother, Dr. Charles L. Ridley, a citizen of Jasper county in this State, is well known to many of our readers. While these summary trials and convictions were going on, the distant thunder of the tramp of cavalry attracted the attention of the "honorable Court," and in a few minutes the sharp report of musketry and the terrified cry of "the rebels! the rebels!" adjourned that tribunal with more dispatch than ceremony. The Provost Marshal, who in a few minutes, would have been treating his prisoners to a short