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The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], Commandant of the Post at Lynchburg. (search)
er, formerly a fencing master in Richmond, and afterwards attached in some capacity to the Wise Legion, is now the agent of Lincoln's Government at Frankfort-on-the-Maine for getting foreigners to come over and join the Yankee army. He has published in London a book, entitled "War Pictures of the South; by B. Estvan, Col. of Cavalry in the Confederate Army." He was formerly a partner in a sword factory in Wilmington, N. C., but got to stealing from his partner and was kicked out. The London Index, to whom the rascal's antecedents were unknown, thus speaks of the book: "His [Estvan's] sketches of the Confederates from first to last betray a rancor that is perfectly inexplicable by anything that is publicly known of his history. If he had been publicly drummed out of their service for cowardice, or detected in a treasonable correspondence and forced to fly for his life, he could not revile them with more unscrupulous and unsparing bitterness. He paints them as mere braggarts and