Young Martha Dandridge Custis

Young Martha Dandridge Custis

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Stealing Government corn

Stealing Government corn. 
--Jackson, slave of Mr. Geo. Williams, of New Kent county, has been sent to Richmond by order of Gen. Wise, charged with stealing Government corn, and piloting the Yankees during their recent raid through that county. 

-Daily Dispatch, May 25, 1863

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