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The Daily Dispatch: September 11, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway--ten Dollars reward. (search)
From Norfolk.[Special Cor. Of the Richmond Dispatch.] Norfolk, Sept. 9. I regret to announce the death of a member of the Metropolitan Guards, 3d Regiment, Alabama Volunteers. The name of the deceased soldier is Jones, and he was a resident of Montgomery. He died on Saturday, and yesterday afternoon the remains were conveyed to the depot of the Seaboard and Roanoke Railroad, to be carried home to his relatives and friends. When a death occurs among the troops encamped on the Norfolk side of the Elizabeth, and at any of the different stations along the coast below, and the remains are sent South, it is necessary, of course, for the corpse and cortege to pass through the city; and there are many sights far less solemn and impressive than the funeral procession of a soldier. The slow and measured tread of the military attendants; the dull, suppressed sound of the drum; the shrill "funeral notes" of the fife; the slowly-moving hearse, with the tireless young sleeper, comb