The Virginia officers in the Lincoln army.
We copied into the Dispatch yesterday, from the Enquirer, a list of
Virginians now in the army of
Abraham Lincoln.
The
Enquirer, of yesterday, corrects its own statement as follows:
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We published in yesterday's Enquirer what purported to be a list of
Virginia officers in
Lincoln's army.
The list was furnished us by a tried friend to the
Confederate cause, and one whose usual accuracy of information was such, we thought, as to justify us in publishing it without question or investigation.
It turns out, however, that our informant was in some instances mistaken, several of the officers whose names appear in it being connected with the Confederate army here.
This is true of
Major Albert J,
Smith,
Capt. T. G. Williams and
Capt. T. A. Washington.
Each of these officers resigned in the
Federal army at the earliest practical moment, and tendered his services to his own country.
The same is probably true of others on the list as published yesterday.
We will endeavor in a day or so to furnish a correct list of the
Virginia officers in
Lincoln's army.
Major F. N. Page, reported as Federal
Adjutant-General in the list published, has been dead, we understand, for several months.
We much regret the error into which we have been led, and hasten to make the
emend honorable to the injured parties.
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