The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Capture of Yankee recruiting officers.

--Col. Roddy's command last week captured in Tennessee Col. Wm. P. Kendrick, of the 3d Tennessee (Yankee) regiment, and Capt. Daniel E Bonham, of the same regiment, both engaged in recruiting in Tennessee for the Federal. Several privates engaged in the same service were also captured. Col. Kendrick is a native of Tazewell county, Va., and the unworthy son of Rev. W. P. Kendrick, a Methodist minister, who has suffered in property and person for refusing to take the oath to support Lincoln's Government. He has two brothers in the Confederate service, one of whom belonged to the command which captured the renegade. On the 15th of May last Wm F. Corbin and T. J. McGraw, two Confederate soldiers, members of the 4th Kentucky cavalry, were shot dead at Sandusky, Ohio, by order of Gen. Burnside, for recruiting for the Confederate service in Kentucky Comment upon what the fate of Kendrick and Bonham should be is unnecessary; but the following paragraph about the fate of the two Confederates may assist the reader in coming to a correct conclusion:

When Corbin and McGraw were prisoners Miss Corbin, the sister of Corbin, called upon Gen. Burnside and appealed to him to refrain from executing his order, and the General replied "that he had quit handling this rebellion with gloves." Miss Corbin then went to the city of Washington and requested an interview with the President, which was declined. These men were shot for no other offence than the charge of recruiting in Kentucky.