----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Gieger" <giegerg@hotmail.com> To: <GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 8:44 AM Subject: [GEORGIA] Military Executions for desertion listed. > Forwarded from another List ---FYI > > > > >From: <wjclac@juno.com> > >Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 8:44 PM > > > > > >Hope someone might use some of this info. > > > >Wanda > > > >++++++++++++ > > > >Here are a few names taken from original Civil War Newspaper in my > >possession. > > > >Daily Constitutionalist, Augusta: GA, Thursday Morning, May 5, 1864. > > > >"Deserters continue to be brought here by the scores. Here is the names > >of twenty-one men to be shot for desertion: > > > >Privates J.R. Bunn, 58th Alabama; M.M. Smith and D.J. Brewer, 42d > >Georgia; H.A. Beacham, 40th Georgia; A.J. Carrol, 30th Georgia; > >Floyd Lawson, 63d Virginia; C.C. Ledford and James M Randle, 60th North > >Carolina; Ira Jessup, W. ? Byres, E.F. Younce, Gordon Morrow, > >Jesse Hase, R.A. Dellinger, Joseph A. Gibbs, Mikel Ward, J. A. Austin, > >S.A. Dover, Right Hutchings, Hiram Youngblood, and G.W. McFalls > >of the 58th North Carolina. All of them to be shot to death within the > >next ten days." > > > >Previous page same newspaper. "About half-past ten yesterday morning- > >the Race course was the scene of military execution of Private > >Henry Jerome of Company ?, the 17th Regiment S.C.V., twice guilty > >deserting his colors had penalty with his life. Took place in presence > >of Major Blanding's command of the 1st S.C. Artillery. Condemmed man of > >mature years, short in statue, quiet demeanor. Attended by Mr. > >Aldrich, Chaplain of 1st S. C. artillery. Private Jerome, native of > >Chester District leave a wife and three children." > > > > > >Mary > > > > > > > > > > > >==== SC-Genealogy Mailing List ==== > >Proud RootsWeb Sponsor > >To find out how you can be one too: > >http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > > >