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ss Story of an Emigrant.
102
I will relate two incidents which took place near Duvall’s
Blnflf, one of a serious, the other of a comic nature.
The first was the shooting of a young soldier of the
Twenty-second Ohio regiment, who time and again had
deserted his post, and finally joined a band of rebel marauders.
It became my sad duty to execute the sentence of death. My
brigade formed a hollow square, facing inward, and the
doomed man, a strong, handsome youth of twenty years,
sat on a coffin in an open ambulance, which was driven
slowl}r along the inside of the square, while a band marched
in front of the wagon playing a funeral march. After the
completion of this sad march the deserter was placed in the
middle of the square, in front of the coffin, wTith his eyes
blind-folded. A detachment of twelve men under a
sergeant now fired simultaneously, upon the signal of the
provost marshal. Eight rifles were loaded with balls, and the
unfortunate young man fell backwards into his coffin and
died without a struggle.
SHOOTING A DESERTER.
One day while taking a ride on horseback in company with
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