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The Daily Dispatch: May 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Burnside's Military Executions. (search)
Burnside's Military Executions. "They were both killed by the first fire, and died without a struggle. Their bodies were delivered to their friends from Kentucky by order of Gen. Burnside!" Thus read the telegram from Sandusky, Ohio, announcinGen. Burnside!" Thus read the telegram from Sandusky, Ohio, announcing the execution of T. P. McGraw and Wm. Corbin, who were sentenced to death, we believe, for endeavoring to enlist men in Kentucky for the Southern cause. They "died without a struggle," is the consoling announcement; and Gen. Burnside most graciouGen. Burnside most graciously ordered their lifeless bodies to be"delivered to their friends! " That man, at the beginning of the war, put on the sir of the humane gentleman; but finding that not popular with the Yankees, he essays now a shorter road to favor and thrift in tm present peril — a quiet and safe revenge, comforting to a coward's heart and grateful to a coward's feelings. But Burnside is only performing the duty assigned him by his master at Washington.--Like the execrated headsman, he is the mere instr