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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The murder of a Confederate soldier by Gen. Wilde. (search)
he repeated a hundred times, until the acting Chaplain stopped 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 rough, stout fellow, was tressed in butternut homespun, and looked the very ideal of a guerilla. He died of strangulation, his heart not ceasing to beat for twenty minutes. Then a slip of paper was pinned to his back, on which the General had previously written: "This guerilla hanged by order of Brigadier- General Wild-Daniel Bright, of Pasquotank county." And the body was left hanging there, a warning to all passing bushwhackers.