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NEW ALBANYFRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1464.honorable example of what can do. Oar readers are of the unfortunate loss of Glt; train, returning from Camd Ark., in April last.Among the guard (which 1,200 men) waa a detohn from the 1st Indiana CavaThe Refugees.Our remarks the other day, in regard to the necessity of instituting some sort of reg. istry system, by which refugees from the South may' be assisted in finding friends by Lieut. Ellsworth. The who have preceded them to the North, have, Marks's Mills, Ark., by we are glad to learn, caused public atten- strong, under Gen. Fagen, tion to be in some manner turned to tni6 un- fight of about two hfortunate class of persons. Still, we do not en^*re train, with 950 men, hear that any definite steps have been taken 1 *®ven pi©c®® °f ai^ either to establish the registry or to give re-1 lb® hands of the enemy, lief to the refugees. No doubt, howover, I Soon after the fight c ■uch of our citizens or army officers as have I ^ 8 horse was killed under tho leisure will do something. There are I remounted himself, and w many of these refugees here, “and still more jtbe rescue of his men, who at* Louisville and Jeffersonville, and possi-1 powered by the enemy, a lt;bly Evansville. We were called upon yes-1 lessly took off the head of terday by an intelligent, good looking young j la the fall he was sever man, lately from Georgia, who arrived at I was captured. Jeffersonville a few days ago, and was in I We are permitted to m search of his wife and child. Ho had heard 1 extract from letter to a that they were in “Albany”—was pretty I which he says: “1 will sure they were here—and had walked all I fight at Marks's Mills, inover the city, in hope of finding them, but I boys, including myself, an when we saw him had not succeeded. LLis I with seven pieces of artilk case was only one in a thousand. We pitied I by the enemy. I saw Sei him in his evident distress, but could render jhn fall, and knew ho was him no assistance except by giving him the 1 Immediately after bein benefit of a line or two in our paper, which I taken to the rear, with we hope may be instrumental in bringing 1 marched off under guarlt; the separated couple together. I miles in thirty-six houre... r „— ... I We were then taken to Ci,\ egro Recruiting at Hawesville I , 1o, ,—Excitement There—Arrival t0 Prls0“ oa the lst da* 0
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New Albany Daily Ledger
New Albany, Indiana, US
Fri, Jun 24, 1864
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