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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 15 : siege of Fort Pickens .--Declaration of War.--the Virginia conspirators and, the proposed capture of Washington City . (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 4 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, Index of names of persons. (search)
Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union, Company D . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: June 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Virginia woman. (search)
Police cases.
--The Mayor, yesterday, ordered Peter, slave of John Blackwell, a whipping for breaking into J. W. Atkinson's carpenter shop, with intent to steal.--Erasmus Chase, arrested as a suspicious person and spy, was sent to jail.Lieut. Ashby, of the Hazlewood Volunteers, Culpeper county, Va., brought Chase to this city on Wednesday.
He was arrested at Centreville last week, on the supposition that he was a Northern spy. When he first arrived here the prisoner was taken to the Governor's house.
but His Excellency being absent, he was carried before the Mayor, who sent him to the police station for safekeeping.
The prisoner, Chase, represents himself as being the captain of a vessel.--Michael Burns was held to bail to appear before Court and abide an investigation relative to a charge of unlawful paternity preferred against him by Bridget Starkie.
alias McAleer.
The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Improvements is the Dispatch . (search)
Mayor's Court, Saturday.
--Alderman Sanxay presiding.--Michael Burns was brought up on a charge of drunkenness, and sent to jail.--Patrick Carcy was convicted of breaking window-glass in the house of Margaret McMahon, and was also committed.--Dabney, a slave, was arraigned upon the charge of stealing bacon belonging to the Confederate States, which had been entrusted to him as the driver of a wagon.
Dabney stoutly denied his guilt, but in vain.
He was ordered to receive nine-and-thirty lashes.--John Phealan, charged with assault and battery upon Patrick Brannon, was next brought to the bar. Several witnesses testified with miraculous volubility to the fact that Phealan had attempted in a summary way to dispossess the complainant of a tenement belonging to P., which Brannon had for some time occupied without paying any rent therefore the owner said.
The Court admonished Mr. Phealan that he must proceed against his nonpaying tenants in a lawful manner, and held him to bail to k
Arrests.
--The city police during Saturday night arrested an enterprising youth, named Thos. Dobson, (lately out of jail, where he had been imprisoned for stealing.) on the charge of stealing a horse worth $230, from Julius H. Gantt.
Michael Burns was also arrested and imprisoned for complicity in the offence.
A man, named McCabe, was taken in custody for being in an affray, on the 9th of May last, in which Patrick Kelley was killed, and — Downes badly stabbed David, slave of Mary Smith, and Mary F. Sawyer, a white woman, were put in the cage for associating together contrary to law.
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], The opinion of the Northern press on Lincoln 's proclamation. (search)