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The Daily Dispatch: December 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Yankee Governor for Mississippi. (search)
pi. --A special dispatch to the Chicago Times from Washington says that ex Congressman Case, who has lately withdrawn from the contest for the Clerkship of the House, will be appointed Military Governor for Mississippi, "for the purpose of reorganizing a loyal Government there." Capt. S. D. McChesney, of Company E, 15th Louisiana regiment, while on his way to Virginia to join his company, after a sick furlough, died on the cars near Columbia, S. C., on Wednesday night, from the bursting of a blood vessel. A negro who was captured by Gen. Forrest in Yankee land, and hired with others to A. K. Sesgo, was hung at Stone Mountain, Ga., Thursday, for committing a rape upon a little white girl eleven years of age. Lauderdale Factory, near Florence, Alabama, owned by Baugh, Kennedy &Co., was destroyed by Sherman's division on the 10th ult.; also, cotton, out-houses, &c. Loss estimated at one million dollars. All cotton at Natchez has been sent forward to New Orleans.