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Col Billy Wilson, the ruffianly commander of the New York Zouaves, died recently of a fall from a horse.
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Confederate Deserter captured from the Yankee army. (search)
A Confederate Deserter captured from the Yankee army.
--Joseph W. Beszley, formerly a member of the 20th Virginia regiment, but who deserted and joined the Yankee army, was yesterday recaptured among a lot of Wilson's raiders and committed to the Confederate prison.
The charges is a serious one.
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], Home Manufactured for (search)
Col. Wilson.
We learn that Col. Wilson, the dashing cavalry officer, who affected such contempt of Confederate troopers, and has subsequently come to grief, is a resident of Washington, D. C., where he pursued the peaceful vocation of carpenter.
Becoming prosperous in that business, he afterwards traveled in Europe, and has turned up, much to the surprise of his old acquaintances — some of whom are in Richmond — as a brilliant Colonel of horse Dr. Pryor, who had the honor of being his prCol. Wilson, the dashing cavalry officer, who affected such contempt of Confederate troopers, and has subsequently come to grief, is a resident of Washington, D. C., where he pursued the peaceful vocation of carpenter.
Becoming prosperous in that business, he afterwards traveled in Europe, and has turned up, much to the surprise of his old acquaintances — some of whom are in Richmond — as a brilliant Colonel of horse Dr. Pryor, who had the honor of being his prisoner, described him as a very Jaunty gentleman in his dress, quite a Sir. Plercie Shafton in his supercilious notions of our mounted peasantry.
He seems equally fitted for building houses and burning them down; and, we have say, after the war, will be willing to take a contract to repair all da
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