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The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hurdle of Confederate soldiers by negro troops. (search)
A certain in Louie. --A man named Nicholas Carroll, who has for some time past evaded arrest by passing as a Confederate Captain, has been arrested as a deserter and committed to Castle Thunder. Carroll successfully played his game till within the last two weeks, when he was arrested by order of Capt, Chartors, and upon examination it appearing that he held no commission, the guard were instructed to take him to Col. Danforth, for service in the militia of the State. Not liking the duties of a soldier, the captain soon deserted, and when rearrested on Tuesday by Capt. Charters, acknowledged that be had deserted, but stated that it was in order that he might attend the deliberations of and hasten action on a plan which he had laid before them to blow up number of Yankees in the twinkling of an eye. He will undergo a trial by court-martial before he can be released from confinement.