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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: February 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Medical assistance to prisoners. (search)
The execution of a Yankee spy. --According to the terms of the sentence pronounced by a Court-Martial in his case, Capt. Spencer Deaton, of the 6th Tennessee (renegade) regiment, was hung in the prison yard west of Castle Thunder on yesterday at half-past 12 o'clock P. M. Long before the hour of execution arrived the neighboring house tops and fences were thronged with scores of people, anxious to gratify that curiosity which scenes of such a character seldom fail to excite in the minds of many people. About a quarter past twelve o'clock a detachment of the military marched into the enclosure and formed themselves in a hollow square around the gallows, soon after which the condemned man was escorted out of the prison between that venerable detective, Capt. John Caphart, the Rev. Dr. Carpenter, chaplain of the Castle, and Mr. Wiley, assistant executioner, the rear being brought up by the mammoth black dog so well known to the visitors of that institution. Arriving at the pla