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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The murder of a Confederate soldier by Gen. Wilde. (search)
s had ridden forward and tied their horses to the tence of an adjacent farm house, whose inmates had closed all the window blinds, and a crowd of colored soldiers encircling the building, watching in silence those ominous proceedings. Lieutenant-Colonel Shorttiff, of the Fifth United States, was appointed spiritual adviser to the criminal, and went back with a guard to bring him to the place of execution. When in formed that he had but a few minutes to live, and was counseled to improve this td him. He then rose to his feet walked up the inclined board with a firm step, at the point of the bayonets of the colored guard, advanced quickly to the head of the cider barrel, and stood under the house. This being placed around his neck, Col. Shorttiff invoked the throne of Grace in behalf of the guilty wretch. As the word "Amen" dropped from his lips, the General, who had taken charge of the drop, pulled the wedge — the barrel tipped, the guerilla dropped. He was a man of about thirty, a