From the Richmond Dispatch, 12/8/1862, p. 1, c. 6
Temperance Meeting. – A public temperance meeting was hold at Springfield Temperance Hall on Thursday night, in which several speeches were delivered for the edification of the audience. Brief and appropriate remarks were made by W. H. Craig, R. H. Mullen, A. W. Richardson, J.F. Snipes, and others.