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The Ut Man Killed.General Chnmberlnin narrates an incident which happened under hi* eje at Ath pomattux. He vm loading bis brigade through the woods advancing to take poel U»n to threaten !.«•»•'• uriny, which was on the Cleat of a hill on the other side of the Apuomattox-Word had not reached him of the flag of truce. Of a sodden he saw n battery of two guu* drawn up in front of a brick house, the object being plainly to check his advance, temporarily nt least. Just as he was preparing to charge upon the battery an aid cam .• to him from General Custer announcing tints a flog of trace had been wot out by General la*.*. and that hostilities would bo •uaptruietL \\*hil« be stub receiving this a«w» the Confederates attacked with their battery. hut «Ud uo damage, not having range Then, he said, one of the guns was a rain discharged, and the hall decapitated a young officer of hla brigade, of whom ho was very fond, who had been a brnv* soldier and had fought almost scat h leas for nearly two years. The shock injured no cm- elar, and the firing was Immediately Stopp'd, the Confederates hnving received It.-tractions, and they abandoned their guns and made llit*r way Uurk to General I-ee's ctin n This officer ni* undotthudly the tn-l soldier killed of rithrr side In Virginia, a id but for mlKapprehaoxlon he would h\% l4fH dlvA-J-l i *0*4-Dispatch.
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The Londonderry Sifter
South Londonderry, Vermont, US
Fri, May 26, 1893
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