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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 95 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 54 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 49 3 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 44 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 40 0 Browse Search
J. B. Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary 38 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 36 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 35 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 34 6 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 2. (ed. Frank Moore) 22 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward (search)
Pardoned. --James Mercer, a free negro convict in the Penitentiary, was pardoned by Governor Letcher on Thursday. The prisoner was sent thither for 3 years, by the Hustings Court of this city, on the 13th day of July, 1858, for stealing a horse belonging to Talbott & Brother. His time expired on the 26th of July, but he would have been kept in five years more had it not been for the interposition of Executive clemency, he having been received in the prison on the 11th of September, 1854, for three years, for stealing Dan. Hunt's horse, which term he served out. It would seem that Mercer had an uncontrollable penchant for unauthorized riding. Both times he tried it he only got a few hundred yards before being taken up. He was pardoned for meritorious conduct and for vigorously exerting himself to stop the recent fire that consumed some of the workshops of the prison.