From the Richmond Dispatch, 10/22/1866, p. 1, c. 5

A DANGEROUS NUISANCE. – Persons living in the neighborhood of Chimborazo Hospital have complained frequently of careless and continued firing of muskets by the negroes living there. It is said that at ties the firing is equal to that of a skirmish line, and that bullets fly about so that it is unsafe to be anywhere in that region. A night or two since a mother was sitting at her window with her babe in her arms, and one of these missiles passed through the window just over her head. A citizen on his way home, not long since, had a bullet to pass through his coat-tail. This is rather close, even when there is reason for firing guns, but in these times of peace, “so called,” it should not only be prevented but punished. Major Claiborne has been complained to, but Chimborazo being beyond his limits, his hands are tied in the matter. He has taken his only recourse – that of communicating the complaint to the county authorities; and we hope that in a reasonable curse of time this nuisance, or rather outrage, fraught with so much danger to the lives of innocent and unoffending persons, will be not only abated but punished.

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