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Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood
May 7, 1862


Wheeling Daily Intelligencer
May 13, 1862

Attempted Rescue of Rebel Prisoners--We learn that on Wednesday last a number of rebels came into the village of Sutton, in Braxton county, and attempted to rescue Kuhl and Windar [Windon], the two rebels confined there for the murder of a United States soldier, and who are under sentence of death. The attempt to rescue was a total failure, and the two men were publicly executed last Friday.


Timeline of West Virginia: Civil War and Statehood: May 1862

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