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The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Runaway. (search)
Runaway. --$100 reward will be paid for the delivery to S N Davis & Co of a negro boy named John. He is about 18 years old, gingerbread color. He had on a black felt hat, boots tipped on the toes, and gray pantaloons, when he left Friday. He was raised in Albemarle, by Dr T J Cook. Geo Turner. ap 8--6t*
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], Three hundred Dollars reward. (search)
plan, however was overruled by the Commanding General whether wisely or unwisely, history and posterity will decide. On the morning of the third, Gen. Lee gave orders that the enemy should be attacked on our front, in their entrenched position on Cemetery heights. The column of attack consisted of Kemper's, Garnett's and Armistead's brigades, (all Virginians,) of Pickett's division, (Horse's brigade was not in the Pennsylvania campaign,) the division of Major Gen. Heth, which consisted of Davis's Miss., Archer's Tenn., Brockenbrough's Va., and Pettigrew's N. C. brigades, and Lone and Scales's brigades, of Pender's old division, now Wilcox's. The attacking column was arranged in the following order. Pickett was put in position so as to move directly on the enemy's frowning line of works. Heth's division, commanded by Pettigrew, was to move on the same line as Pickett, and attack the enemy's salient at the same moment. --Pickett's division was arranged: two brigades in the fro
The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1864., [Electronic resource], No Mercy for the Licentious. (search)
No Mercy for the Licentious. --In Atlanta, Ga., on Thursday, Judge Brigham, while passing sentence of four years imprisonment in the penitentiary upon Davis, the bigamist, remarked, "That whenever a man was convicted in his circuit, either of seduction or of bigamy, whether General or private, citizen or soldier, he would inflict upon him the punishment awarded by the law to its fullest extent, without regard to any plea of guilty. Mercy to such criminals would be cruelty to the rest of the community."