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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
ted persons, putting the deluded ones in the way to political salvation, and turning the others over to the proper authorities, to be dealt with according to the law of the Convention. We have nothing further from Gilmer, where at last accounts civil strife was going on very actively. In Tucker county the disaffected are very bold. We learn that Lt. McChesney, of Rockbridge, with nine mounted men, went from the Laurel Hill camp a few days since, to be present at a Union meeting in Tucker. On his way he was warned to be on his guard, as he would probably fall into an ambuscade in a short distance. He persevered, and had not gone far before he was shot dead by party of Union men secreted on the roadside. One of his men returned to camp wounded, but the other eight had not returned at last dates, and it was feared they had been captured or killed. McChesney was a gallant and brave man. He had been an active skirmisher, and but a few days before had shot one of the volunteer