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The Daily Dispatch: May 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Our Unchanged prisoners. (search)
ig. Gen. Carson, who was at the time in command of that Department. A disloyal resident of Harper's Ferry, by the name of Rohr, was in the habit of ferrying negroes across the Potomac at that point, and running them off to the camps of the enemy at f a detachment to accomplish that object.--Young Baylor took with him a trusty negro man, to aid his purpose of entrapping Rohr. On arriving at the ferry. Baylor and his men secreted themselves under the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge, while the negro was sent forward to signal Rohr to come over with his boat, which he did readily. When he arrived on the Virginia side, young Baylor rushed from his concealment and demanded his surrender. Instead of complying with the demand, Rohr, who wasRohr, who was armed, attempted resistance, when he was fired upon and killed by some one of the detachment. Upon the facts above narrated the Yankees have based an informal charge of murder and violation of a flag of truce, and refused to exchange Capt. Bayl