Fulton County GaArchives News.....Civil War Update from St. Louis July 28, 1865
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The Constitution, Atlanta, Fulton Co., GA July 28, 1865
A St. Louis dispatch gives the news from Fort Leavenworth that on Monday last 
the 6th Western Virginia Cavalry and other troops, when ordered to cross the 
Plains, mutinied and refused to march.  They had got it into their heads that 
they were entitled to be mustered out, and did not want to go any father.  
General Stolbert, commanding at Fort Leavenworth, had the mitineers dismounted 
and disarmed and placed them under guards.
Col. St. Leger Grenfell-Col. St. Leger Grenfell, formerly of the Condederate 
army, who aws tried at Cincinnati in March last on the charge of being 
implicated in the alleged Chicago conspiracy, was transferred on Friday last 
from his place of confinement, in the McLean barracks, to the State prison at 
Columbus, Ohio.

Gov. Perry was to leave Washington for South Carolina on Wednesday to enter 
upon the duties of his office.


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