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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Escape of prisoners from point Lookout. (search)
d not be sent to the field, but that company "B" could. Not satisfied with this decision, some of the members of company "B," when they were ordered to do duty in King and Queen, obtained a writ of habeas corpus, and appeared before Judge Halyburton, with the hope of being relieved from general service. As they had not been taken beyond the ten-mile limits the Judge discharged the writ, and the men were remanded to service. After getting to King and Queen a new writ was obtained, the parties appeared before the Judge, and by several witnesses, including their officers, proved that they volunteered for local service only, and that local service was defined by the officer who mustered them in to mean ten miles and no more. Yesterday morning the Judge decided that the applicants, who were brought from King and Queen by his writ, were now within the ten miles limit, and that, being within the limit for which they volunteered, they were subject to duty, and he could not discharg