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The Daily Dispatch: March 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], Missouri Convention-report of the Committee on Federal Relations. (search)
ith regard to the circumstances of his burial. Accidentally, his surviving friends, and the gentlemen who have most interested themselves in the matter, discovered that Col. M. M. Payne, United States Army, was at his funeral. We conversed with Col. P. on the subject, who told us all he knew. There was not, indeed, much to tell; but every thing connected with the death of a man so well known is of interest. Col. Payne, then a Captain in the army, commanded the troops stationed on Amelia Island, opposite to Cumberland, from which it is separated, we believe, by St. Mary's Sound. The officers — he among the rest — frequently visited in the neighborhood — at Mrs. Shaw's, among other houses. He had never heard that Gen. Lee had been lying ill at Mrs. Shaw's, until one morning he received an invitation to attend his funeral that day. As the distance was ten miles, all the way by water, and as Capt. Payne had but a single small boat at his command, he could not, of course, carry o<