From the Richmond Sentinel, 4/14/1864
Yankee Officers Shot. – Wile the prison guard at the Libby were
drawn up in front of that building, on Tuesday morning, loading their guns, the
piece of private Charles Webber, of the 18th Virginia battalion,
accidentally exploded, whilst he was in the act of capping it, and the bullet
passed in at one of the prison windows, wounding Lt. James Kelly, of the 100th
Ohio, and killing Lt. G. D. Forsyth, of the same regiment. That the shooting was
purely accidental was established by the testimony of a number of witnesses,
among whom were several Yankee officers.
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