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The Daily Dispatch: January 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], 500 dollars reward. (search)
, are all crimes which are punishable with confiscation and imprisonment. Perhaps no greater display of meanness was ever made than the action taken in regard to some Confederate officers who were killed in the State.--Among these was Col. Emmett McDonald, rendered famous at the commencement: of the war by refusing the Yankee parole, and testing the legality of it in the Courts, and afterwards as a gallant artillerist in the armies of Van Dorn and Price. He and Col. Wimer were killed in tht off to some place of secret sepulchre, which has never been discovered by the bereaved family of the unfortunate man. Information of this infamous proceeding was at once sent to the friends, who were performing the last sad rites for poor McDonald. None but ladies were present yet in this trying hour they presented a picture of heroism and fortitude seldom discovered. Taking from the hearthstones the fire shovels, this little burial party retired into the yard of the house, and there du