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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Six hundred Dollars reward. (search)
conveyed to his left. The enemy continue to shell the city from elevated positions, and the trains on the City Point railroad are distinctly to be seen and the rattling of the cars and whistling of the engine heard. The death of General Morgan. It adds to the regrets which the death of General Morgan has caused (says the Lynchburg Virginian) to know that he fell a victim to treachery, and did not fall in fair and open fight. A woman, at whose house he was spending the night,--A Mrs. Williams, said to be a native of Lynchburg,--rode to the nearest camp of the enemy and informed them of his whereabouts. Eager on securing so illustrious a prize, they lost no time in repairing to the spot, surrounded the house, and, while thus in their power, the noble chief received his death wound through the heart. The enemy were afterwards driven out of the town. The false creature who thus, in violation of all the soft and gentle prompting of her sex, has brought the blood of our prince