| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| May 5, 1862 |
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| The engine thieves |
| We learn that the Court Martial at
Chattanooga have completed the trial of the ringleader of the bridge
burning party {on the Western & Atlantic RR}.
Their decision in the camp, however, will not be made public until
their adding is approved by the Secretary of War. We learn that no
more of them will be put upon trial till this decision is passed upon. |
| This leader of the party is named Andrews,
is said to be a partner in a well known merchandise firm in Nashville,
and has not heretofore been suspected of to the South. He was hired by
the Lincoln authorities to burn the State road bridges, and if
possible to bring through to them an engine.
Those accompanying him belonged to the army, and had been distilled to
do the worse. |
| We are informed that the one who turned
"State's evidence" against them is a He said he was one of
the Kentucky State Guard, in the days when "centrality" was
in vogue, that he was entrapped into the Lincoln service by belonging
to this "State Guard," and accepting arms from the Yankee
Government before the Yankee army other into the State, and was unable
afterwards to get out of service; that he was friendly to the South,
and it was always his determination to fight for the South, if forces
to take any side; but that "neutrality" and the "State
Guard" had deceived him, as it had thousands of others; before he
was fully aware of the fact, he was in the Lincoln army, and could not
escape from it. |
| We learn that two more of this bridge
burning party were captured not far from Chattanooga and brought in
there two or three days ago, and that one of the party is still at
large or has escaped to the Federal line, having never been caught. |
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