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The Daily Dispatch: November 10, 1864., [Electronic resource], Five Hundred Dollars Reward. (search)
Daring Exploit and murder of Lieutenant Walter Bowie. In the early part of September last, Lieutenant Walter Bowie, of Maryland, at his own instance, received from Colonel Mosby orders to take ten men and cross into Maryland for a special service. Immediately upon receiving his orders, he selected ten men of his command, crossed the Potomac at Mathias' Point, and proceeded at once to Port Tobacco. Here he surprised and captured the Yankee picket and paroled the men with orders not to leave the town until the following morning. Upon some of the horses thus secured he mounted his men (armed and fully equipped) and proceeded up through the State, visiting the prominent and wealthy Union men, depriving them of their best and finest horses. Passing near his own home, he was joined by his younger brother, Brune Bowie, who was at home recruiting his health, having been, some time since, severely wounded while serving gallantly in our army. Having secured a drove of about sixty of t