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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], France and Mexico (search)
Sent to the Castle. --Thomas H. S. Boyd, now confined in Castle Thunder on the charge of deserting the 1st Louisiana regiment in February, 1862, was before Judge Halyburton on a writ of habeas corpus. In April, after deserting, Boyd was commissioned by Governor Letcher as a Lieutenant in the 2d brigade, 4th division Virginia Boyd was commissioned by Governor Letcher as a Lieutenant in the 2d brigade, 4th division Virginia militia, and went into service; but when the militia was turned over the Confederacy Boyd's company was merged with another, and he was thrown out of service. His counsel took the ground that he was illegally detained, as he was a commissioned officer, and, by the articles of war, could not be arrested and held as a private. Thand, by the articles of war, could not be arrested and held as a private. The Government attorney argued that Boyd was a deserter when commissioned, and consequently could not legally hold the position of an officer. The Judge declined to set the prisoner free, but remanded him to military authority, to be tried for desertion.
The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], The raid on Wytheville. (search)
rishman was shot dead because he refused to go with them. He had taken no part in the fight. Capt. Oliver, it is assented by a lady of unquestionable veracity, was shot and killed while a prisoner in her yard, because he refused to give information to the enemy. A Catholic friar was shot while is the act of assisting a decrepit lady from the burning house of Mr. Wm. Gibbony, and his leg had since been amputated. Her crutches had provisory been taken from her by the brutes. Col. Boyd and other citizens, who had not engaged in the fight, were taken from their houses and forced to walk to the mountain, where they were paroled. These are only come of the inhumanities which were perpetrated. Among the victims of the Yankees are two citizens of the town, an old gentleman named Cock and a Mr. Telligan. The latter was murdered in cold blood, after he has surrendered. The Abiegden Virginian has the following about the probable, or rather improbable capture of the r