America's Civil War

The Death of a Deserter

found their way into the , such as one about the execution of Private Jacob Adams, a 46th Georgia Infantry deserter. As originally reported by the and republished by editor John Steele on May 18, 1863, Adams had been executed at the race course outside Charleston, S.C. Confederate troops and the city

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