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{From the minutes of the
Directors' Meeting of the Central (of Georgia) RR, January 12, 1864} |
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| The President placed before the Board a
letter from the Company's General Agent at Augusta, setting forth that
Col. Robert Toombs, at Augusta, on the occasion of the passage of his
Regiment to Savannah, violently, and without provocation, caused the
Said Agent to be arrested and detained in custody, and otherwise
unlawfully interfered with the business of the Company -- using
violent and blasphemous language before the men of his command and
inciting them to violence against the person of the Said Agent. |
| Whereupon it was resolved that the
President be requested to procure from M. Selkirk a statement, on
oath, before a magistrate, and the affidavit of any disinterested
persons who witnessed the conduct of Col. Toombs, and that he do place
such statement & affidavits before the Commanding General of the
Military District embracing Augusta, in order that Col. Toombs may be
called to account before a Court Martial. |
| Resolved that the Said Agent M Selkirk be
and he is hereby directed to proceed at Law against Col. Toombs for
the Violation of his personal liberty and false imprisonment, and that
he be further directed to prosecute Col. Toombs, criminally, for such
false imprisonment. |
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