27 October 1862: “Four companies of infantry sent down here on the steamer Belvidere have mutinied and refuse to leave the boat.”

Item description: Telegrams, dated 27 October 1862, between Brigadier General H.H. Lockwood and Acting Rear Admiral S.P. Lee, concerning an apparent mutiny of Union soldiers at Drummondtown, Va.

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Item citation: Official records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.. Series I, Volume 8. Washington : G.P.O., 1897. C970.75 U58no Ser. I, Vol. 8. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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