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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1862., [Electronic resource], Savage murder of a Georgia soldier. (search)
Savage murder of a Georgia soldier. --Absalom Spencer, of the 1st Georgia regiment, who was left sick at Murfreesboro', Tenn., after the fight there, went to stay at the house of a Mr Brown, near here, which is in a "Union" neighborhood. The Atlanta Confederacysays: As had been anticipated, it was not long before the alarm was given in the neighborhood. He endeavored to escape, but was overtaken at a fence which he was trying to get over, and carried back to the house. A pistol we, but shoot them down." He then ordered the prisoner to be tied between two stumps, and for eighteen men to fire at him. The first volley missed him, on which — a brutal Dutchman ran up, and with the muzzle of his gun within, a few feet of Spencer, shot him through the stomach. He died that night, and was decently buried next day by the citizens. He told Mrs. Hill, at whose house he died, that he lived in Coweta county Ga., and that he was nephew of Bishop Andrew--that he had two brothe