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Show WAR BETWEEN SOLDIERS. Outbreak Au.onT" Volunteer, at Annlntuu, Alabama. Anniston, Ala., Nov. 25.-Members of the Third Alabama, a negro regiment, regi-ment, with murder in their hearts caused the greatest excitement last night that this town has ever known. Shortly after dark Private GUdhart of company W, Second Arkansas, while returning to camp from town, was shot in the head by a negro soldier, who also stabbed him in the back. GUdhart was taken to the regimental hospital. A little later a member of Fourth Kentucky is reported to have been shot on Walnut street by negro soldiers who lay in a gully shooting at the white men who passed. Firino- was heard in Liber.a, the negro quarter of the city, which is not far from Walnut street, and a squad of the provost guard went to investigate. investi-gate. As it turned the corner on Fifteenth Fif-teenth and Pine streets, a large crowd of negro soldiers, without warning, opened fire upon the guard with Springfields, the gun in use in the regiment. regi-ment. The guard returned the fire, but had few cartridges and soon had to retreat. When reinforcements and ammunition were secured the negros had disappeared. In the engagement George Dodson, Third Tennessee, was shot in the arm, and Private Graham, Third Tennesse, in the stomach. One negro soldier has been brought in dead and another was found fatally injured. Two members of the provost guard are missing. There is much excitemen there, and a general race war is expected. Citizens are arming themselves, and the armories armor-ies of two local companies have been broken into and every gun and cartridge cart-ridge appropriated. A negro soldier was dangerously beaten by some white soldiers on Tenth street, and this incident is supposed to have caused the riotous actions on the part of the negroes, who are said to have slipped out of the camp through the guard lines. |