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The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], Affairs on the Potomac. (search)
Yellot, "Major Commanding Fost and Provost-Marshal." Mr. Baughman was granted but a little time to arrange his affairs and depart. When he reached Harper's Ferry, and before he was sent to the guardhouse, the Provost-Marshal there, with an air of land consideration, told him that if he had any money or valuables about ved the following paper: "Received of J. W. Baughman one silver watch and five hundred and five dollars. "A. D. Peaty. "Captain and Provost-Marshal, Harper's Ferry." When Mr. Banghman was about to start from Harper's Ferry he applied for his property, and was coolly informed by Pratt that General Hunter had forHarper's Ferry he applied for his property, and was coolly informed by Pratt that General Hunter had forbidden the return of it, and had, moreover, instructed him to inform Mr. Baughman that he must deport at once, and if caught in the Federal lines, his head should be shaved and he should be flogged. Of course nobody can be surprised that Hunter should steal after turning traitor to his native State. But while he is certainly not