Our readers will remember that we published, two or three weeks ago, an account of the extraordinary escape, from the
Washington prison, of
Lieut. H. H. Dunnott, a gallant young officer who was captured by the enemy in the battle of July 21st. We are now pained to announce his death, which occurred at the house of a friend, near
Winchester, on the 29th of December, after an illness of some six weeks. The gentleman who communicates this intelligence adds that his last days were spent in earnest religious devotion, and that there is reason to believe he died a Christian.
Lieut. Dunnott was a native of
Delaware.
He belonged to the 27th regiment Virginia volunteers, and no man was more ardent in his attachments to the cause of the
South.
The story of his captivity and escape will form one of the incidents in the history of the war.
