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The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], A novel funeral (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.unfortunate mistake--two soldiers killed. Fairfax. C. H., July 4, 1861. A most unfortunate mistake, resulting in the loss of two of our men, occurred last night in the direction of Fall's Church. A considerable force of Infantry and Cavalry, with two pieces of Artillery, were sent out last night towards the Church. The various companies having taken their positions, Colonel Montfort, of the Virginia Cavalry, dispatched three men upon an errand of observation of some kind. It is said they started off in a walk, when he called upon them to proceed in a gallop. They obeyed the order, but had not proceeded more than three hundred yards before they came upon a party of Confederate Infantry concealed in the bushes. Supposing them to belong to the enemy, the Infantry fired upon them, killing Corporal Madison Tyler and private Samuel Gordon, both of Warrenton, and belonging to the Virginia Black Horse Cavalry, and wounding — Smith, of the