The General Orders of the War Department (1861, 1862, 1863) directed that
proportions that General Robert E. Lee ordered every tenth man on the march pistol and fixed
James Crozier from Belfast was shot at dawn for desertion – he was
Chamberlain had orders to shoot the mutineers if they refused duty.
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the penalty for cowardice could be harsh, with death by firing squad the most extreme
The result was a constant and increasing flow of deserters crossing over to Union lines.
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Z. Lee of the 19th Virginia, who was also in attendance, recalled watching soldiers
Thomas Highgate was the first British soldier to be convicted of desertion and executed by firing squad in September 1914 at Tournan-en-Brie during World War ...
General Robert E. Lee himself wrote about how the soldiers from the state were prone