| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| May 27, 1864 |
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| Horrible death |
| On Saturday last a deserter named Elijah
Hicks of Stokes county, and belonged to co A, 2d N C battalion, came
to a most horrible death under the following circumstances: He had
been confined in Richmond and was being taken to Salisbury for
punishment When near Jamestown he had succeeded in cutting a hole
through the back of the freight car in
which he, with other prisoners, rode, sufficiently large to get
through. He pulled out the coupling pin to detach the rear cars, and
then pushed himself through feet foremost, Unfortunately for him the
train was rapidly going down grade, and instead of finding a space to
drop into between the cars, the rear carried over him mangling his
body horribly and causing instant death. -- Goldshore' State Journal |
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