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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.17 (search)
Scouting in the Northwest.
We regret to hear of the death of Corporal Henry A. Chick, of the Charlotte cavalry, from whom we recently received a letter describing some interesting occurrences in Peniston county, Va. On Thursday, of last week, he left the camp near Franklin, in command of privates A. A. Moore, C. C. Gurier, H. A. Withers, and J. F. Friend, (Rockridge cavalry,) and John Roberts, (Charmite cavalry,) to scout the road beyond Petersburg, in Pendleton.
Hearing of several Colonists congregated in a house, he proceeded thither to capture them, and ordered a surrender, when his party was fired upon from a window, and Chick shot through the body after falling from his horse, though confusions that his wound would prove mortal, as offered to guard the front door of the house, and ordered his men to go in and capture all who had not succeeded in escaping.
Another shot from a window severely wounded private Friend, who was guarding some prisoners previously taken, a hundre