NP, CW 10/13A/1862

From the Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N. C.)
 
October 13, 1862
  
Killed
   A furloughed soldier from Catawba County, on his way to his regiment, was killed by the cars at our depot Friday evening week. Several trains were about starting South and East {on the North Carolina RR}, and this man, whose name we cannot ascertain, sprang on the train moving East, on which there was a regiment of South Carolinians. It is reported that the South Carolinians told him he could not get on that train, and that a struggle ensured between them in which he was pushed, or fell off, and was caught in the break and dragged over the cross ties. Others say he was drinking, and fell in attempting to get on the platform.
   His remains were sent back to Catawba Saturday morning.

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