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The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hurdle of Confederate soldiers by negro troops. (search)
Hurdle of Confederate soldiers by negro troops. We have the particulars of the atrocious murder of two Confederate soldiers by the Yankee negro troops in Middlesex county, Va., on the 12th inst. It appears that Capt John Maxwell, whose name has become familiar in connection with the daring exploits of his command, which is detached from the navy on secret service, was at Mill Creek, on the Rappahannock, with eleven of his men, when a negro regiment, commanded by Col. Draper, a white man, attempted to capture them, their locality having been betrayed by some person who was aware of their hiding place. When the regiment surrounded the Captain and his party, three of our into — George Phillips, of Elizabeth City; John Collona, of the Eastern Shore; and Scott, a private in the Jeff Davis Legion — surrendered. After these surrendered Captain Maxwell attempted to cut his own way out with the remainder of his command. After come desperate fighting he made his escape, having received