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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 82 6 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 3 55 1 Browse Search
Adam Badeau, Military history of Ulysses S. Grant from April 1861 to April 1865. Volume 2 55 1 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 8. (ed. Frank Moore) 42 20 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 37 5 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 32. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 24 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 23 3 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 22 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 21 5 Browse Search
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 18 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 1, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
xt day (Sunday) they marched to Rectortown; on the line of the Manassas Gap railroad, where Mosby, finding he had some of Custer's men, kindly informed them that he had an account to adjust with Custer, and that they must draw lots to see who the sevCuster, and that they must draw lots to see who the seven were out of the whole number (twenty-nine) who should be hanged in retaliation for seven of his men who had been hanged a short time previously by Custer's orders. The ballots were prepared, seven having numbers on them, and the rest being blanksCuster's orders. The ballots were prepared, seven having numbers on them, and the rest being blanks. Five of the numbers were drawn on the first trial; but one was drawn by a drummer boy, who was released because he was not a bearer of arms. One or two more trials were made, the Captain each time escaping with a blank. Lieutenant Disoway, of the Fifth New York heavy artillery, drew a number, but was released, and one of Custer's men substituted for him. This was the last seen of the victims by their comrades, who were marched, under a light guard, to Sperryville, where the Captain contrive