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Execution at Chattanooga.

--The Chattanooga (Tenn.) correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle, writing on the 25th ult., says:

‘ Saturday afternoon I witnessed another execution. First-Lieut. W. H. White, 4th Georgia cavalry, was hung for being guilty my, advising desertion, and deserting himself. He was a young man, about twenty three years of age. He stood the trial like a man. The rope failed to break his neck, and he died very hard — struggling for three or four minutes. It was a horrid sight.

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The Daily Dispatch: September 4, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. September 4, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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