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The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Additional from the North. (search)
s, Major and Ass't Adj't-Gen'l. Official--H. C. Clarke, Aide-de-camp. Dr. Rucker in Washington. A Washington paper has the following about the notorious DDr. Rucker, who escaped from prison in Pittsylvania: The stories of returned Union prisoners lend force to the argument of retaliation — none more than that of DDr. Wm. T. Rucker, the noted Union leader of West Virginia. While he was in prison at Pittsylvania the rebels who visited his call to taunt him said the Confederate starved because of the inability of the rebels to feed them is pronounced by Dr. Rucker to be untrue. The wheat crop this year was half an average, and corn three-f, but the supply will be exhausted before spring. The Union people with whom Dr. Rucker conversed expressed themselves strongly in favor of strong retaliatory measurn the combination of fire and sword. At one place in the Alleghany Mountains Dr. Rucker was piloted to a concealed fortification created by Union men and escaped con