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The Daily Dispatch: May 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], Hurdle of Confederate soldiers by negro troops. (search)
them, their locality having been betrayed by some person who was aware of their hiding place. When the regiment surrounded the Captain and his party, three of our into — George Phillips, of Elizabeth City; John Collona, of the Eastern Shore; and Scott, a private in the Jeff Davis Legion — surrendered. After these surrendered Captain Maxwell attempted to cut his own way out with the remainder of his command. After come desperate fighting he made his escape, having received a slight wound. Thtting on a fence and Collons standing by a gate — some other negro soldiers besides the guard came up, and after carsing them, deliberately murdered the two in cold blood, killing them before they could change the positions they were standing in. Scott's fate is not certainly known, though it is believed that he was also killed. The murder of the other two was witnessed by several persons who saw them slain without having made the slightest resistance which could give the negro devils an excus<