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The Daily Dispatch: September 15, 1864., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
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Heavy defalcation and reported escape to Yankee land. --On Saturday morning last, Captain Thomas S. Knox, Commissary at Camp Jackson formerly of Fredericksburg, Virginia, and George W. Butler, formerly of Norfolk, Virginia, but recently of New York, late a teller in the Confederate States Treasury Department, left this city, and, it is reported, have gone North. Since their sudden departure it has been ascertained that Captain Knox is a defaulter to the extent of $350,000 of Government funds, which he converted into sterling exchange, through the negotiations of ex-teller Butler, at Sutton & Co's banking-house. Some time since Butler resigned his p furlough had nearly expired, and he had been assured that no further indulgence would be given him, the dread of going in the army prompted him to leave. Captain Knox obtained a passport at the Provost Marshal's office upon his personal representation that he had a blind brother he wished to convey to Fredericksburg, and upo