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The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], Spirit of our soldiers. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: February 22, 1865., [Electronic resource], From the army of Northern Virginia . (search)
From the army of Northern Virginia. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Camp Ewell, February 17, 1865.
A solemn warning was given to the men of Terry's brigade, last Friday, in the execution of Private Joseph P. Fugate, of company C, of the Thirty-seventh Virginia regiment, who was, in the presence of the brigade, shot to death with musketry for the crime of desertion.
He bore himself with remarkable fortitude, expressing resignation to his fate.
He made a profession of religion some three or four days before his execution.
The enlistment of negro soldiers is here, as elsewhere, the chief subject of interest at present.
Late in the evening of the 15th instant, an order was received from General Evans, in Terry's brigade, to take the vote of the soldiers on the question of the enlistment of negro troops by volunteering, in separate commands, and to send up the report that night.
The men were called into line in a few minutes — very few of them knowing the obj