Named Entity Results, David W. Rogers

Three men to be shot. --The court-martial now in session here has condemned three soldiers to be shot for desertion in the face of the enemy, one or more of whom had been lately received as substitutes in the respective companies from which they hail. The parties are now confined in Castle Thunder under strict guard. Their names are David W. Rogers, of company G, 1st Regiment Va. Vols.; Patrick McGowan, of company 1, 14th Virginia, and John Kelleher, of company F, same regiment. The execution, which has been appointed to take place at 11 o'clock next Wednesday, at Camp Lee, will be conducted under the supervision of Capt. G. W. Alexander, Assistant Provost Marshall of the Eastern District. All three of the men will be shot at one time. As is known in all executions by military law, a dozen men are selected as executioners, only six of whose muskets are loaded. When the above unhappy men are placed in a triangular position, with twelve men firing on each of them, they will

The condemned men. --In noticing the fact a few days since that David W. Rogers, Patrick McGowan, and John Kellaher were condemned to be shot for desertion, we added on information furnished us, the words, "in face of the enemy." We are informed by note from the unfortunate men in question that they did not leave their regiments until three or four days after the battle of the 30th of August; and that in the case of John Kellaher, not till he was unable to proceed further in pursuit of the flying foe.

Escape of a condemned man --David W. Rogers, the soldier condemned to be shot on Saturday, for desertion, escaped from Castle Thunder Monday morning, between the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock--Rogers was to have been shot about three weeks since, but was respited until Saturday by the President. Rogers was imprisoned in a room frRogers was to have been shot about three weeks since, but was respited until Saturday by the President. Rogers was imprisoned in a room fronting on Cary street, the door leading to whish was watched by a sentinel. It seems that he escaped between 2 and 3 o'clock Monday morning. By cautiously lifting the window of his room he was enabled to get on the perch used for drying tobacco. By watching, when the sentinel below had turned his back, he was able to crawl to thRogers was imprisoned in a room fronting on Cary street, the door leading to whish was watched by a sentinel. It seems that he escaped between 2 and 3 o'clock Monday morning. By cautiously lifting the window of his room he was enabled to get on the perch used for drying tobacco. By watching, when the sentinel below had turned his back, he was able to crawl to the end of the porch over the office door. When the sentinel again turned his back, he went down the small wire that surrounded the end of the porch, and swung himself to the ground by means of the iron bracket that supported the structure. A sentinel down below heard the fugitive strike the ground and called to his companion, and