The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Arrest of a Federal officer.

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Arrest of a Federal officer.

--The Norfolk correspondent of the Petersburg Express makes the subjoined statement:

‘ Commander Boutwell, of the Lincoln Navy, has been arrested and taken to prison in Richmond. A few days ago this individual came to Norfolk, visited the Navy-Yard and other fortifications, went to the house of a lady relative of his in this city and persuaded her negroes to run off, collected some money here for a relative in Washington City, D. C., and started on the Petersburg train for Richmond. A telegraphic dispatch, I understand, was sent from here informing on him to the authorities in Richmond, who had him arrested on getting out of the cars.--I am told that he was several days in this city, and that he crossed the Potomac in company with Southern ladies and gentlemen, who did not suspect him of being a spy, knowing as they did that he was a Virginian by birth. He informed them, I am told, that he had resigned from the Federal Navy, and was coming to Norfolk to report himself to Commodore French Forest, now in charge of our Navy-Yard. This strikes me as the coolest piece of daring impudence I ever heard of.

The arrest was effected in Knoxville, Tennessee, by officers acting under the authority of General Zollicoffer.

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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. August 28, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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