From the Richmond Enquirer, 9/22/1862, p. 2, c. 5
DESERTERS TO BE SHOT. – On Friday evening last, three
deserters, confined at Castle Thunder, had the sentence of death read before
them. – Their names are David W. Rogers, Co. G, 1st Va.; Patrick
McGowen, Co. I, 14th Va.; and John Kelleher, Co. F, of the same
regiment. They will be shot at Camp Lee on Wednesday next, at 11 o’clock. The
same court martial which condemned these men to be shot, sentenced one Owen
Maguire, a deserter from Co. H, 1st Va., to receive fifty lashes on
the bare back. It is presumable that this quartette of examples will have a
beneficial effect upon would-be deserters generally.
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