The Daily Dispatch: November 10, 1863., [Electronic resource]

Bogus impressing officers.

We learn that a certain "character,"who is well known in Dadeville and surrounding country, has been playing a wild and lone hand over the river. The character, by insinuating himself into the good graces of a certain firm in Columbus, has been detailed for the purpose of buying beeves for the employees of this particular workshop, with no authority whatever for impressing, has been in this county professing to be a Government agent empowered with full powers of impressment-- Under such a garb, we understand, he has perpetrated many outrages, even upon the wives of gallant now soldiers in the field.--We learn that he goes to people who are true and loyal, and who suffer anything for the success of our cause, and tells that the Government only allows them one mitch cow, and if, perchance, they have more; he tells them that he is an impressing agent, that the Government only allows twenty four dollars per head when impressed, and thus secures them almost at his own price.