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The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1864., [Electronic resource] 9 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Bragg's army. (search)
Escape of a Confederate officer from Fort McHenry. About the time of the capture of Charlestown by Gen. Imboden, Capt. John C. Blackford, of Major Gilmore's battalion, was sent in the direction of Martinsburg with a view to ascertain as much information as possible with reference to the position and numbers of the enemy at that point. He had with him some thirty select men, but their movements were observed by the Union men of the neighborhood, who informed the enemy in the town of his l and took to the water, but had scarcely commenced swimming before they were halled by a sentinel, who gave the alarm, and the whole guard was turned out and commenced firing upon the party. The other two, becoming alarmed, turned back, but Capt. Blackford, resolved upon regaining his liberty, kept on, and swam across to the Lazaretto. From this point he made his way into the city of Baltimore, but the fact of his escape had spread, and Lincoln's detectives were actively on the look-out for h
The Daily Dispatch: January 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Confederate officer killed. (search)
A Confederate officer killed. On Thursday of last week Captain John C. Blackford, a daring and intrepid scout, attached to the forces in the Valley of Virginia, lost his life in an engagement werment." The circumstances connected with his death, as related to us, are as follows: Capt. Blackford, with three of his men, had stopped at a public house in Newtown to warm themselves. They not been long in the room before it was entered by eight men dressed in Confederate uniform. Blackford soon discovered that they were Yankees in disguise, and at once left the house with his men, aarty of eight men followed them out, and commenced a fire upon them. The fire was returned by Blackford's party, and two of the enemy killed, but in the firing Capt. B. himself was shot down. The balance of his party escaped, although the town was soon filled with Yankee troops. Capt. Blackford was quite a young man, and had been in the service since the commencement of the war. For a lon