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w-----J ............O’-LKAVES AND RESOLUTION.Mr. GROVER presented the memorial of J. D. Lillard, now a prisoner at Camp Chase.It reads as follows: ICamp Ciiase Prison, Ohio,Feb. 17th, 1882. jTo the General Assctnbly oj Kentucky:Your memorialist, the undersigned, a citizen of Kentucky, and resident of the county of Owen, respectfully represents to your honorable body, that on the night of the 2dth of December last, the house in which he was sleeping, at Napoleon, Kentucky, was sur- i rounded by a detachment of armed Federal soldiery, belonging to the 20th regiment Ohio Volunteers, and forcibly entered, and he compelled to surrender as a prisoner.At the time of his capture, he requested the officer commanding the detachment to inform him the cause of his arrest, or the accusation against him; but was unable.to ascertain nonspecific charge, the officer merely replying that he was considered a disloyal citizen of the Government of the United States.From the place of arrest ho was escorted by a strong guard to Warsaw, where he demanded an investigation of his case; but this was peremptorily refused, and, on the following night of his arrest, he was forced aboard of a United States mail steamer for Cincinnati, and taken beyond the jurisdiction of his State. From Cincinnati he was brought to Camp Chase prison, where he has been closely confined since the 28th of December, without even being informed of the cause of his imprisonment, except the tatementsof theofficer who made his arrest.
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Frankfort Tri Weekly Kentucky Yeoman
Frankfort, Kentucky, US
Fri, Feb 21, 1862
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