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The Daily Dispatch: September 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], The cause of Southern superiority. (search)
Five Dollars reward.
--Runaway, from the fortifications about Richmond, a servant by the name of Thornton, belonging to Addison O. Yerby, Litwalter, Lancaster county,
no 20--3t* C. G. Thompson.
Prison items.
--The following arrivals are reported at Castle Thunder since Saturday, viz: Jas. Broderick, deserter from Rix's artillery, stationed near Fredericksburg, caught by detective Thomas, between two beds, in a house on Cary street; J. W. Graham, company E, 25th Va. Battalion, for allowing prisoners to escape; twenty-one men, mostly hard cases, belonging to different regiments, hitherto confined at Gordonsville, were received from Major Boyle, the Provost Marshal there; D. J. Wyatt, Thomas Rowles, and James Duncan, of Rodgers's cavalry, desertion; Wilson Coots, 15th Va. Cavalry, who escaped from the railroad train while being conveyed to his company; Robert Burch, company G, 5th Va. Cavalry, and Mike Walsh, co. E, 9th La., desertion; eight men from Capt. Thornton's co., for punishment; A. Lipscomb, of the Fayette Artillery, for permitting prisoners to escape; Wm. L. Morris, of the Fayette Artillery, for desertion.
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], Mobile to be Defended to the last Extremity. (search)
Prison items.
--The following persons were received at Castle Thunder yesterday, viz; Ten deserters from Camp Holmes, N. C.; Wm. Hinson, of the 44th Ga. regiment, for desertion and horse stealing; James Norris, a conscript, from Fredericksburg; John W. McGowan, of Allen's battery, for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and five others for the same offence; five men belonging to the Caroline Light Artillery, subject to the order of their captain, Thornton.
One hundred Dollars reward.
--Ranaway from my factory in Danville, on Sunday, June 1st, my negro man Thornton, who calls himself Thornton Gregory.
It is supposed that he will attempt to get to Richmond.
I will give the above reward on his delivery to me in Danville, or to Mr. Coleman Wortham in Richmond.
The raton is of black complexion, about five feet ten inches high, spare make, is a boy of good countenance.
He had on when he left dark pants and coat and a light vest.
jy 8--10t* James Thomas, Jr.
The Daily Dispatch: April 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], Congressional summary. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: July 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], The heavy guns of McClellan 's army . (search)
A Discovery.
--The military police, through information furnished by some soldiers arrested for drunkenness, made a descent yesterday on a house in rear of Lumpkin's jail, and arrested a Norfolk free negro named Moses Taylor, and Thornton, a slave of Mr. Lumpkin, on the charge of selling liquor.
They were locked up. On searching, the guard found a barrel of whiskey and a barrel of brandy.
The whiskey the parties declared they paid $336 for, and sold for 25 cents per drink.--Five hundred dollars worth of plunder from the battle-field, consisting of blankets, overcoats, knapsacks, cartridge boxes, shirts, drawers, (never used,) soap and sperm candles, tent files, shoes, &c., &c., were also seized and carried off.