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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Important Habeas corpus case. --A. J. Camp, of Amherst, Virginia, came before Judge Meredith's Court on Friday, the 19th instant, on a writ of habeas corpus, directed to General Eppa Hunton. The petitioner was represented by Mr. John M. Speed, of Lynchburg, and Messrs. Nance & Williams, of this city; the counsel for the Government, Colonel Thomas P. August, of the Conscript Bureau, and Mr. James Neeson. The petitioner based his claim for exemption on the fact of having been recently, and while in service, elected as a Justice of the Peace, and under the conscript law and the resolutions of the Legislature, entitled to a discharge. The only testimony offered was the certificate of his election by the County Court and the recommendation of the Governor for his exemption. The counsel for the Government made str exertions to deafest this claim, as it would set a precedent for other cases of a similar character. They claimed that after a man has once got into the service, t
The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ten miles further, but night coming on the hero of the Valley, by the merest accident, escaped. Colonel Whitaker kept the main road to Richmond and struck the Fredericksburg railroad near Kilby's station, and then followed it up to Ashland, where the Second New York was met and both parties returned to camp. By this time it was known in Richmond that the northern defences of that city were threatened, and troops were hastily brought back from Lynchburg and Charlottesville, Amherst Court-house, Louisa Courthouse and the South Anna, and between Chesterfield station and the Chickahominy river. Every bridge, nearly every culvert, and scores of miles of the rail itself have been completely destroyed. One of these bridges was one thousand feet, another seven hundred and fifty feet, another four hundred and twenty feet in length, and quite a number between one hundred and two hundred. These structures were made in Alexandria, and no duplicates are on hand to replace them.
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