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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), Doc. 147. drawing Lots at Richmond, Va. (search)
thing I wish to let you know, which is this: the General in charge of this post, Richmond, Brigadier-General Winder, with five or six other officers, came into prison yesterday at four o'clock P. M., called us officers to order, and stated that he had an order from the War Department to ballot one out of the highest rank of the six colonels now prisoners of war in their possession, and the one balloted and drawn to be placed in a cell in prison, similar to that in which the condemned pirate Smith at Philadelphia is placed, and to be disposed of according to his fate. The ballots being prepared, the names of the six were as follows: 1. Col. Lee, Twentieth regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 2. Col. Cogswell, Forty-second New York Zouaves. 3. Col. Corcoran, Sixty-ninth New York State Militia. 4. Col. Woodruff, Second Kentucky regiment. 5. Col. Wilcox, First Michigan regiment. 6. Col. wood, Fourteenth New York State Militia, Brooklyn. There were placed fairly in a tin or ball
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 3. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 158 (search)
nion men, who had plead for them and saved their property from destruction, but it was all in vain. Their destruction was decreed by an indignant people, and three regiments would not have prevented them from burning the town. Our troops passed over; a few shots were fired at the rear guard of the retreating rebels, and a few arrests made of leading secessionists, among them H. H. Miller, who had been for some time with the rebel army, and came in with Jenkins and got trapped at home; E. A. Smith, who was seen firing with a revolver on our soldiers in the street; John S. Everett, who shot at one of our soldiers swimming the Guyandotte, and several others. And then the town was soon in flames. No Union man's house was set on fire, but several caught from the others. The town is, at least three-fourths of it, burnt up. All the stores, the hotel, and the finest dwelling houses, are in ashes. It is supposed that Jenkins went with his force to his own plantation, as the next nigh