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The Guerrilla Baid.THE TBtTH ABOUT IT.from Mr. Comiogore, Editor of the Paoli, Orange County, Eagle, we learn all of the history of the recent rebel raid into that County worth knowing. He says the band numbered fifty-nine men when it left the Kentucky •here, but one deserted on their arrival on thi* aide. They crossed at Flint Island, below Leavenworth, on Wednesday afternoon, and went northward some miles beyond Leavenworth, where they camped. On their way they stopped and exohanged several oi their jaded hores for better ones, representing that they were Union soldiers in search oi deserters, and that the difference in the value of the horses would be made good by the Quarter-Master here on the presentation of the receipt which they gave to each owner. At their camp they were visited by a number oi citizens, who supposing they were really - Union soldiers treated them kindly, and gave them information of the whereabouts oi two deserters, whom the audacious scamps actually sent out and arrested, and held in custody till next morning. It seems a little strange that the citizens should have been so easily duped, as the guerrillas were not in uniform of any kind, nor were they armed With regulation arms. They were dressed in ordinary clothing, and were armed with revolvers—each man had a pair—and with a queer medley of shot-guns, rifles and muskets.But no suspicion seems to have been felt by- * % . ^ Aanybody at that time.. The next morning they moved on towards Paoli, occasionally exchanging horses and giving forgedQuarter Master's certificates, and tak-lag the thing aa cocly as if theywhere what they said they were.—
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Indianapolis Daily Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Tue, Jun 23, 1863
Page 2
Full Page
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Sullivan C.
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