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The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North (search)
Virginia, was being used for the detention of the slaves of rebels, and that the rebels of that county were actively coopering with the authorities of the rebel States, the matter was referred to Gen. Wadsworth, as commander of the department. Col. Swain, of Scott's cavalry, was ordered, with a detachment of his command to go to Leesburg. After a week's absence the command returned last. evening. Col. Swain had a general Jail delivery of the negroes confined on rebel are about, straightened uCol. Swain had a general Jail delivery of the negroes confined on rebel are about, straightened up things generally, and brought Justice Asa Rogers and Rev. E. H. Nourse as prisoners, they refusing to take the oath of allegiance, and being proved to be active in the rebel cause, the reverend gentleman acting as a kind of rebel post-boy. Nourse is charged with being a sort of peripatetic secret mail agent, the medium of communication between rebel spies and sympathizers in rebeldom out of the county.--It is alleged that Rogers sent his own negroes to aid Jackson in his second raid up the Va