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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], The long missing Steamship Pacific . (search)
Brought to Richmond.
--T. A. R. Nelson, his son, a guide, and a man found with the trio, were brought to this city on the Danville train Saturday evening, as prisoners of war. They were captured last Tuesday by about forty of the Tennessee cavalry, who were out on a scouting expedition, in the vicinity of Cumberland Gap.
The individual, Nelson, had been, prior to the dissolution of the Union, a member of the Federal Congress.
After the secession of Tennessee, he traitorously set himselfNelson, had been, prior to the dissolution of the Union, a member of the Federal Congress.
After the secession of Tennessee, he traitorously set himself up, along with others, in opposition to the action of his State, and avowing himself a candidate for the Abolition Congress at Washington, was "elected." He was in search of the Mecca of his hopes, Washington, whose metallic attraction had proved too strong to resist, when an arrest by the patriot forces nipped the intended treason in the bud. It is probable that he will be convicted of the crime alleged against him, and condemned to serve a term of years in some one of the Confederate penitent
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1861., [Electronic resource], The long missing Steamship Pacific . (search)
Nelson, the Tennessee traitor, when first brought here Saturday evening, was carried to one of our first class hotels.
He will, no doubt, shortly be carried to a first class tobacco factory to share the comforts of his companions in iniquity.