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The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Handsome affair near Smithfield.--capture of Yankees and Destruction of a gunboat. (search)
was on his way with him to Castle Thunder, when, on reaching the alley running between that building from 18th and 19th streets, and parallel with Main and Cary, he was halted by the sentinels on watch. Keene stopped at the word of command, but commenced abusing the guard in a violent manner, which conduct caused them to take him under arrest. By this time additional assistance had arrived, when he was placed in charge of privates John Cotton, of Petersburg, and Samuel T. Rowell, of Southampton county, military guards at the prison, to be conducted into the Castle for confinement. Soon after starting off with them, he drew his cutlass and commenced a stout resistance, but was in a short time disarmed. He then started to run, but had only gained a few steps before both of the guard fired their muskets at him, a moral and ghastly wound. The ball entered the back part of his head, about one inch to the right of the left car, coming out of his left eye, and tearing away in its progr