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A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.), Organization of the Confederate States army. (search)
A Roster of General Officers , Heads of Departments, Senators, Representatives , Military Organizations, &c., &c., in Confederate Service during the War between the States. (ed. Charles C. Jones, Jr. Late Lieut. Colonel of Artillery, C. S. A.), Field Return of Troops commanded by General G. T. Beauregard May 21st , 1864
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Appendix. (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Confederate Artillery at Second Manassas and Sharpsburg . (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 25. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.34 (search)
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Addenda by the editor (search)
Police Court.
--Justice Caskie presided yesterday, in the absence of the Mayor.
Chastain Farrar was arrested for improperly using a horse belonging to Francis T. Scott, while on a frolic; but as there was no malicious or criminal intent, he was discharged from custody.
Fanny Lockley, free woman of color, was punished for receiving a stolen ring, and ordered to return to her home in King and Queen forthwith.
Jim Hobson, free negro, received an admonition for having fire-arms in his possession.
A warrant against Tim Sullivan, for beating Mary Murphy, was dismissed on payment of costs.
Patrick Cummings, charged with buying a lot of cabbage in the 1st Market and selling the same in the 2d Market, was fined $5. A confiscation of the edible plants was also ordered, and they were legally cabbaged by the city.
Recorder Caskie, who occupies the Mayor's judgment seat during the necessary absence of that official, yesterday ordered twenty-five lashes to be bestowed on William Ira Davis, a King William free negro, for some time past domiciliated in this region, in contravention of law, and who had on his person, at the time of his arrest by the watch, a most dangerous "concealed weapon," in the shape of a long knife, made out of a file blade, capable, from appearances, of doing speedy execution on human and other animals, if properly introduced into the diaphragm.
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Important Naval intelligence. (search)
Sent on.
--Orris Harrison was examined before Recorder Caskie, on yesterday, for the alleged stabbing of Miles McJordan, on the 29th of January, and was remanded for examination before a called Court of Hustings, on Thursday, February 21st. Had the offence been a bailable one, he would doubtless have been allowed the privilege of entering bail for his appearance, as an impression generally prevailed that both parties were somewhat to blame for any breakage of the law occurring at the time of the disturbance between them.
Threats.
--An untimely exhibition of anger on the part of Bill Moss, a Petersburg free negro, (arrested for being in the city contrary to law,) made at the cage yesterday morning against Wm. Johnson, a free negro, was the cause of the former being arraigned before Recorder Caskie at the City Hall at a later hour.
The dispenser of the law's favor deemed it his duty to curb the belligerent propensities of Moss, and he was awarded 20 lashes and ordered to be detained in custody till the 16th inst.