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one to1 good tne 0f ('apt. Gregg's Company Killed.ztionrotes.mustbuck-•nger t ill be5.CUESivedthe3ov-We published an item on Friday morniDgterJ from the Wheeling Intelligencer, reporting thekilling of a volunteer in a skirmish near Wor-LOMthingtcn, Virginia, belonging to Company E,• Todd °f tbe an(i of city- We ditl not crfetiitsupposedCompany E still at Phillippi, a hundred milesor so distant. Later news leaves no loBgerroom to doubt the killing of one of CaptainGregg's men, according to the item of Fridayd up- morningA correspondent of the Plain Dealer,writingfrom New Creek, Ya., September 4tb, speaking of the same matter as that referred to,says: “ In a skirmish between Company E,of the 8th regiment and the rebels near Worthington, previous to the arrival of the Federal reinforcements, oorporal Smith, son of Ex-Sheriff Smith of Sandusky was killed, 3 ballspiercing his bodyThis settled the mvtteras to the killing and as to who was killed.Saturday evening however, Mr. We there 11 ofthis city, received a letter from his son, Sergeant Wetherell, describing the affair at Worthington. There was no fighting only betweenthe rebel pickets and the advanced scouts ofthe volunteers. Some ten of the rebels firedand the young man killed was pierced with 3balls, lie lived until 3 o clock, Sunday evening. September 1st, having been shot at eighto’clock in the morning. He was Augustus V.Smith of Castalia,Another letter was alFo received in the citySaturday evening, giving at out the same account, and agreeing as to the name of the— *• mon far tt i#ni.Details of Hie 1th He^tment.The Cleveland Herald of Saturday eveningThie1ntc8]Itclt;01PHkfioltcaiciCltlptchiCiB
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Sandusky Daily Commercial Register
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Mon, Sep 09, 1861
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