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Narrow escape.

--The Lynchburg Virginian says that a member of the Greenbrier Cavalry, who arrived there last Saturday night, states that their company were completely surrounded at Lewisburg by two regiments of Federal infantry, and three hundred and fifty cavalry. Our cavalry made good their escape with the exception of two of their men, who were taken prisoners, and afterwards killed by their captors with the pistols from their own belts.

One of these men, so, brutally murdered, was, we understand, a prominent lawyer of Lewisburg, but we were unable to learn his name. A fewtlays since, eighteen of the Yankees were surrounded in a house by this company, and refused to surrender, whereupon the whole party were killed. The Yankees, upon hearing this, swore that they would kill every member of this company captured.

The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1862. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. May 19, 1862. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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