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A Suicide

--The body of John Murphy, of the Sixty Ninth (N. Y) Regiment, who drowned himself at Annapolis on the 24th April,was picked up by fishermen last week and carried to Washington for interment. Murphy became insane on the steamer James Adger, from sheer suffering.

The Daily Dispatch: may 15, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 15, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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