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The Daily Dispatch: July 30, 1863., [Electronic resource], The war. (search)
isloyalty under cover of foreign protection papers-persuading Confederates to desert. Adam Scharer, a resident of Danville, Va., with protection papers in his pocket from the Bavarian Consul, was lodged in Castle Thunder last week upon the chargre going into action at Gettysburg to prevent its getting into the hands of the Yankees, in the event of his death. The Danville Appeal gives the following history of the case, as elicited in an examination before the Mayor of that city. From t appears that sometime since the letter alluded to was written by a certain Adam Scharer, for some time past residing in Danville, and addressed to his brother, formerly a member of the "Grays." The latter advised the brother to desert to the enemy a Yankee troopers came up, and Scharer's brother managed to let them capture him though his comrade escaped and is now in Danville, where he gave the account of Scharer's performances, and declares that he also could have eluded capture if he had trie