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| f266474 | Our Country is Gone, our cause is lost | confederate-states-of-america | Sam R. Watkins | |
| 0e9010b | While at Colonel Niel's marquee I saw a detail of soldiers bring out a man by the name of Rowland, whom they were going to shoot to death with musketry, by order of a court-martial, for desertion. He was being hauled to the place of execution in a wagon, sitting on an old gun box, which was to be his coffin. When they got to the grave, which had been dug the day before, the water had risen in it, and a soldier was baling it out. Rowland spo.. | Sam R. Watkins |