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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Confederate States Congress. (search)
Highway Robbery. --Early on Friday evening last, as Major Hensley, commanding a heavy artillery battery stationed at Marion Hill, was riding to his quarters, he heard a short distance ahead of him, when opposite Tree Hill, the cry of "robbers," "murder," &c., accompanied by one or two pistol shots.--The Major immediately galloped up to the scene of action, where he overhauled the principal, a man who gave his name as Young, and who says that he is an officer in the navy. After proceeding down the road a short distance a negro was overtaken, who stated that he had been robbed of his basket and its contents by an officer, who had, upon meeting with resistance, fired at him once or twice, and immediately recognized Young as the man who had committed the deed. Upon hearing these facts, Major Hensley called on some of his men, who had by that time come up, to arrest him and confine him in the guard house, which was done.--Another man was implicated in the affair but he succeeded in