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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for City Point (Virginia, United States) or search for City Point (Virginia, United States) in all documents.
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The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Suffolk — the capture of the Stripling battery. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], Estimates for the support of the Government . (search)
Unconditionally released.
--A flag of truce left for City Point yesterday morning carrying 167 Federal prisoners, including five officers.
Among the officers was Lieut. W. F. Stone, of the 1st Maine cavalry, who was captured at Boslton Station on the 16th inst. Lieut. Stone is a native of Portland, Maine, and was released unconditionally, without exchange or parole.
The circumstances which justified this stop were as followed: Lieut. Stone was taken prisoner by Lieut. J. A. Payne, of the Black Horse Cavalry, who while proceeding with his prisoner to Gen. Stuart's headquarters, had to cross a swollen stream, which washed his horse from under him, and he was about drowning, when Stone, an athletic young man, who was standing on the bank, leaped from his own horse, plunged into the stream, and brought Lieut. Pavue safe to there with great danger to himself.
This circumstance, as constable to Lieut. Stone, was made known to the Secretary of War by Gen. Stuart, who bespoke kind tre