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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the war. (search)
us, which closed the part taken by the Fifty fifth in the affair of the 19th and 20th. Considering the heaviness of the fire sustained by the regiment for so long a time, our casualties were few, owing to the darkness of the night. One man mortally wounded, nine less severely, and one missing, supposed to be dead. The horrors of war. A Murfreesboro' correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing under date of April 12, after detailing the recent battle between Generals Stanley and Van-Dorn, says: Among the prisoners captured at and near Snow Hill were two men who wore the National uniform, and who according to the orders of the War Department, were subject to the penalty of death by shooting. In accordance with the authority vested in him, the Colonel had the two executed. --At the same time he had suspended to the nearest limb, until dead, a prisoner who was represented as having once, as captain of a guerilla band, ordered the execution of an old man whose two son