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The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he writ to the effect that he held Mr. Pate legally, first as a private in the 19th regiment of Va. militia; second, by virtue of an agreement between the Governor of Virginia and General Kemper and the Secretary of War, by which the 19th regiment had been made, for certain purposes, a portion of the reserved force of Virginia; and third, that he was held in arrest for trial by a military court martial, convened by order of the Governor of Virginia. Messrs. Patrick Henry Aylett and Edward Y. Cannon represented Mr. Pate, and the Attorney General of Virginia, John Randolph Tucker, appeared for Captain Jenkins. The case was argued at great length and with unusual ability, and the decision of the Judge was delayed by his absence from the city in consequence of illness in his family. Judge Lyons decided that, as an enrolled conscript between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, Mr. Pate had been regularly detailed by the President to perform duties and to superintend works