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The Daily Dispatch: January 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The murder of a Confederate soldier by Gen. Wilde. (search)
The murder of a Confederate soldier by Gen. Wilde. The Norfolk (Virginia) correspondent of the New York Times gives a full account of the hanging in North Carolina of private Bright 62d Georgia cavalry, by Gen. Wilde, upon the charge of being a "bushwhacker." The murder was one of the most deliberate and fiendish that has been committed during the war. The letter says: Two hundred men, under command of Captain Frye, were sent to a point near the mouth of the Pasquotank, with orders to scour the country to Currituck Sound. The long train of wagons to accompany the main column was ordered to be in readiness by day light the next morning, and lastly a court martial was convened to try the prisoners in our possession, now numbering about twenty.--Of these eight were found guilty of various offences and ordered to be taken to Norfolk, two were retained as hostages, the guerilla was sentenced to death, and the rest were ordered to be discharged. The following morning the picket