A Dastardly Deed
Item
- Title
- A Dastardly Deed
- Source
- Richmond Dispatch {VA}
- Date
- 1900-02-04
- page
- 9
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85038614/1900-02-04/ed-1/?sp=9
- Crime
- Theft
- Subject
- Theft; Civil War
- Gender of alleged victim
- Male alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Crime
- Location
- In-State; VA
- Length of story
- 61 words
- Description
- “Davy's" sole ambition was to be a soldier and fight the Yankees— to seek— "The bubble reputation," "Even in the cannon's mouth," and at the same time avenge the theft of his raiment. He had picked up, somewhere, an old, rusty, army musket, and he would muster all the boys and "pickaninnies" in the town and drill them by the hour.
