Named Entity Results, James Cain

Execution of Deserters. --James Cain, of Branch's artillery, and John Bowers, of the 4th North Carolina regiment, were executed at Petersburg on Tuesday for desertion. The Express says: Cain bore his fate with apparent indifference, and laughed and conversed as though he were going to a wedding feast. He considered tCain bore his fate with apparent indifference, and laughed and conversed as though he were going to a wedding feast. He considered the sentence that had been passed upon him a just one, and said that had the Confederate Government been as strict twelve months ago the army would have been saved the loss of many valuable soldiers, and he, for one, would have still been in the ranks. Bowers, on the other hand, exhibited a vastly different spirit from that of Caistill been in the ranks. Bowers, on the other hand, exhibited a vastly different spirit from that of Cain. He wept profusely when brought out of jail, and while being taken to the place of execution, but subsequently bore up better. They were shot at 1½ o'clock, and both fell dead at the first fire, pierced by several balls.