Lieutenant Compton with five men went out to capture the man
who fired into a passenger train last summer and killed the conductor. When the
man saw them approaching to surround his house, he started to run for the
timber. He refused to surrender and the men fired on him, shooting him through
the thigh, but upon seeing that the man was severely wounded, Lieutenant
Compton gave the order to let the man remain at his home.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 29
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