On Saturday a U. S. soldier from Pennsylvania, in one of the camps, near Washington, thrust his head with a false head on into a tent, where there were other soldiers, when one of them fired his pistol at the intruder, and killed another man who was walking quietly by. On the same day, a private in a New York Regiment stumbled into a post hole near the camp ground, when his musket was accidentally discharged killing one man and wounding another.
The Local News, Alexandria, VA
Good grief! As if war itself wasn’t bad enough!