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The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], From the Trans-Mississippi. (search)
Charged with treason. --John H Marr, sutler of the 14th Tennessee regiment, was arrested in this city yesterday and committed to Castle Thunder on the charge of treason. His offence consists in ingratiating himself into the good graces of a citizen of Hanover, at which place he remained for over two months. When Sheridan's raiders appeared in the neighborhood, he forced his host to take to the woods for safety, and then assumed entire control of the place, entertaining the Yankees in fined close by with instructions to shoot him should he show himself, and but for the faithfulness of one of his servants, who watched the opportunity to carry him something to eat, he would surely have starved to death. A forged will was drawn up by Marr, in which the whole of his host's property was made over to himself, and it was on this account, perhaps, that he desired him to be killed. These facts are all attested to by a number of the most respectable citizens of Hanover and adjoining coun