3 June 1863 – “Ranaway from the Subscriber, a bright mulatto boy, named Bob; is twenty-two or three years of age, five feet eight or nine inches high, blacksmith by trade; was raised in Appomattox County, Va., by a Mr. Glover; has a wife in Cumberland or Buckingham county, and is supposed to be lurking in that direction. He had a black frock coat and silk hat, all the other clothes being made of oznaburgs.
“The above reward will be paid for his delivery to any jail where I can get him.
“Address
H.C. Burnett
Care Hill & Norfleet, Richmond, Va.
June 2, 1863″
Source
“Runaway – $250 Reward!” Weekly Standard (Raleigh, North Carolina), 3 June 1863, pg. 3.