From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/10/1861

Resignation of an U. S. Army Officer. – Capt. J. E. B. Stuart, late of the U. S. Cavalry, has resigned his commission, rather than head the minions of Lincoln in their piratical quest after “booty and beauty” in the South. The officer in question arrived yesterday, and tendered his services to Virginia.

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