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A Dreary drama.

--Chas. Couiling, who had served six years in the State prison for robbing the Portsmouth Post-Office, and was pardoned on Tuesday by the President, was sent to Camp Lee as a conscript yesterday. During his stay in prison he had written a drama founded on his experience and treatment as a contact for six long years, which covered some fifty pages of manuscript. The "play" is gotten up with a good deal of ability, considering that the author could only write a few lines at a time, and had his attention pretty equally divided between writing and hiding what he had written in his bed and other out of the way places in his cell, to keep it from the vigilant eyes of the turnkeys.

The Daily Dispatch: September 3, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. September 3, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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