From the Richmond Enquirer, 6/19/1862, p. 1, c. 7
A SOOTY DODGE. – A desperate character, confined in Castle
Godwin, for desertion from Capt. Marmaduke Johnston’s Battery, known as John
Keyser, alias Wm. Shultz, blacked his face over with soot, on yesterday, and
getting possession of an old basket, hobbled out, in negro fashion, and
succeeded in passing the guards. Some of the negroes about the establishment,
struck with the peculiarity of “dat nigger,” expressed their suspicion of the
genuineness of his color, and suggested the propriety of pursuit. The
proposition was heeded at once, and, after a brisk chase over Butcher town
Bottom, Keyser was overtaken, captured and brought back. For his attempt to
escape, he was ordered to be punished severely, by the process peculiar to
prisons, of “bucking.”
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