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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 1 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore) 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], The execution of Mumford. (search)
His coolness was wonderful. In speaking his voice was perfectly steady, and when the hood was drawn over his head I could not discover so much as a tremor of his hands. The fall, which was about four feet, dislocated his neck; but owing to a slight accident the knot was displaced and worked up under his chin, leaving the windpipe partly free. The result was that muscular contraction did not cease for ten minutes, though it was at no time violent.--The body hung for 30 minutes, when Dr. W. T. Black, surgeon of Gen. Shepley's staff, who, with Dr. Geo. A. Blake, of the United States Sanitary Commission, was in attendance on the execution, ascended a ladder and ascertained that the heart ceased to beat. The body was then allowed to hang nearly twenty minutes longer, when it was cut down and placed in a plain pine coffin. The crowd then dispersed quietly. At five o'clock in the afternoon of the day of the execution, the remains were taken from the Mint, and under an escort from