The Virginia officers in the Lincoln army.
We copied into the Dispatch yesterday, from the Enquirer, a list of Virginians now in the army of Abraham Lincoln. The Enquirer, of yesterday, corrects its own statement as follows:‘ We published in yesterday's Enquirer what purported to be a list of Virginia officers in Lincoln's army. The list was furnished us by a tried friend to the Confederate cause, and one whose usual accuracy of information was such, we thought, as to justify us in publishing it without question or investigation. It turns out, however, that our informant was in some instances mistaken, several of the officers whose names appear in it being connected with the Confederate army here. This is true of Major Albert J, Smith, Capt. T. G. Williams and Capt. T. A. Washington. Each of these officers resigned in the Federal army at the earliest practical moment, and tendered his services to his own country. The same is probably true of others on the list as published yesterday. We will endeavor in a day or so to furnish a correct list of the Virginia officers in Lincoln's army. Major F. N. Page, reported as Federal Adjutant-General in the list published, has been dead, we understand, for several months.
We much regret the error into which we have been led, and hasten to make the emend honorable to the injured parties.
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