The Daily Dispatch: February 17, 1864., [Electronic resource]

Execution of deserters.

J. S. Stanly, Lewis Bryan, Michelle Buseck, Wm. Fein, and Amos Amyen, of Nethercutt's battalion, who had deserted their colors and gone to the Yankees at Newbern and taken up arms against their land and kindred, were banged in this place on yesterday.

The prisoners were accompanied to the gallows by Hoke's and Bartow's brigades. They ascended the Seinfeld with a firm and plastic step, and seemed to bear up under their trials with much fortitude. They had but little to say, except Buseck, who, I learn, entreated his old comrades in arms to stand by their flag and never desert it under any circumstances whatever, test they should come to the ignominious end of those who were then about to die the felon's death end fill the felon's grave.--"Oh that I had never been horn." one of the prisoners was heard to exclaim in his anguish a moment before the trap fell.