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The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], White Recruits Flogged by Provost Marshals. (search)
pon an alleged deserter within his district, and superintended himself the execution of this infamous sentence. A Pittsburg journal thus describes the scene: Hagan was now seized by the guard and taken to the "rendezvous" in the third story, where preparations were at once made for carrying the order into effect. The man, asred, and a soldier named Geo. Palmer, corporal of the guard, under directions of Deputy Provost Marshal McHenry, who was present, proceeded to lay on the stripes. Hagan, comparatively powerless though he was, resisted, and McHenry, as is alleged, called on the soldiers present to hold him white the stripes were being laid on. This the latter refused to do, where upon, as the report goes, McHenry himself seized the wretched man and held him until the entire fifty lashes were administered.--Hagan struggled violently in his agony; but before the sentence was half carried out he fell prostrate on the floor, and while in this condition the balance of the lashes