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The Daily Dispatch: August 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Destruction of the Arkansas. (search)
Desertion and death of a soldier. --On Wednesday night last, about 9 o'clock, two Confederate soldiers were seen prowling about the plantation of Mr. M. Beasley, on the Meadow Bridge Road, and being questioned by the proprietor, stand that they were soldiers discharged from the Hospital Giving such a lame tale, Mr. Beasley charged them with desertion, and advised them to return to Richmond, after which they went off. On Thursday morning one of them called on Mr. Beasley and told him that his comrade was dead, and acknowledged that both were deserters. Mr. Beasley, with some of his neighbors, had the deceased, whose name was Griffin. H. Rice, from Richmond county, buried. The name of the other soldier was Walderson, from Northumberland. They both belonged to the 40th Virginia regiment. The cause that produced Rice's death could not be ascertained, though inquiry was made to effect that object.