The Daily Dispatch: may 29, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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A faithful negro.

--On Tuesday evening, about 5 o'clock, as a train of cars containing a portion of the 24th N. C. Regiment was slowly backing up to Hanover. Junction it suddenly found itself ambuscaded by several regiments of Yankees, who fired a volley in the train. The surprise was so complete that the passengers leaped from the cars and took to the woods, leaving, their baggage and the cars a prize to the vandale. Among those who left in a hurry was a negro man, a servant of Capt. Harvey Painter, of that regiment, who, unfortunately, found himself, a short run, in the midst of a squad of the enemy, by whom he was captured and placed in ‘"durance vile,"’ where, pondering upon the frailty of human hopes, he conceived an idea of escape, (not having either food or water furnished him) In the morning, upon some trivial excuse, he obtained permission to walk out in the woods. So soon as at a convenient distance he gave the sentry leg bail, making a straight shoot for our lines; but coming again upon the Yankee pickets he hid himself in the grass until they had passed, when, up again, he continued at double quick to his master's regiment, and arrived here by the cars last evening.