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The Daily Dispatch: January 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Soldier killed. (search)
a week ago some one abstracted from the brigade commissary department some flour. This putting the officers on their guard, a musket was obtained and loaded with peas, and a negro boy named Ben, who occupied the tent in which the surplus rations were kept, (this tent being contiguous to the one occupied by the clerks in that department,) was instructed to fire upon any one attempting to molest anything in the tent. On yesterday morning, some three hours to day, Mr.--Hudson, a member of Capt. Robinett's company, from some cause or an other, came too near the tent, (his reasons therefore as yet not being understood, this portion of the affair being still clouded in mystery,) and the negro fired upon him, the entire load of peas taking effect on his head and face, which undoubtedly must have stunned him and caused him to fall to the ground, and as the doctors declare his head to have received a severe lick from some weapon, the negro at this juncture must have clubbed his gun and struck