From the Richmond Dispatch, 5/23/1863, p. 1, c. 5

A Man with Many Names. – Officer Perdue, one of the Provost detectives, yesterday arrested a man named George Cayson, alias Mike Leary, alias McKenny, alias Maloney, a member of company H, 47th Va., on the charge of substituting and deserting. A reward of $500 had been offered for his arrest. The levanting soldier was lodged in Castle Thunder, to be tried by Court-Martial.

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