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except Dr* Dill, were convinced bythe plausible talk of the Captain (HineB, a notorious guerrilla,) that they were Union soldiers, but th»Doetor wasn’t to be fooled. He had been in |he army,andknew “secesh” by Instinct. He took back to town the report that they were rebels, and straightway preparations were made to follow them. Boon after a number of citizens from the adjoining country, mad some of the Crawford county Home Guards, under Clendenning, (formerly Major of the 1st Indiana cavalry, who was wounded so severely, after behaving most gallantly, at a battle in Arkansas, under Col. Fitch, that he was compelled to leave the sorr Tice,) came up and pursuit was commenced. Tne rebels from the farm where they took the two horses, turned eastward, and some six or •even miles north*east of Paoli, encountered 14 or 15 of the citizens posted in the road, evidently with a hostile purpose. They were the first of a gathering which was to meet at that point as a rendezvou to resist or follow the guerrillas, and were waiting lor their friends to join them,The rebels captured the Whole party, as reetatimce was out of the question, and made them give up their horseB and arms. The horses they kept; the arms theybroke and threw away. This was between 9^ •r‘ _ _ ^ .aud.10 o'clock at night. * While engaged at I us point two citizens rode up, with guns on |3eir shoulders, io join the' others, and the T bela commanded them to surrender their Isl rses. They refused. One of them was knocked off his horse with the butt end of a (no, and the other; a Mr. Sisk, seeing that the Captain was about to give him a dose of t e same kind, jumped off, and started to run He wa» fired at, and the shot struck him in the back, passing though his body, and inflicting a probably fatal wound. This was
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Indianapolis Daily Journal
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Tue, Jun 23, 1863
Page 2
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Sullivan C.
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