Special Edition: An Execution in Kansas (March 22, 1862)
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On Saturday March 22, 1862, the Leavenworth Daily Conservative reported that Private Alexander Driscoll, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, was executed outside Camp Hunter in Humboldt, Kansas. Driscoll’s crime was murder, and the Irish-born twenty-seven year old former shoemaker is the fourteenth U.S. soldier to be executed in the war. To date, the Union Army has only executed two soldiers for desertion. (The Confederate Army’s first execution for desertion will not take place until August 1863.) According to official records, the Union Army executed 275 men for military offenses (there are no official records for the Confederate Army), but the best estimate is that over 500 soldiers were put to death during the war.
Special Edition: An Execution in Kansas (March 22, 1862)
Special Edition: An Execution in Kansas…
Special Edition: An Execution in Kansas (March 22, 1862)
On Saturday March 22, 1862, the Leavenworth Daily Conservative reported that Private Alexander Driscoll, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, was executed outside Camp Hunter in Humboldt, Kansas. Driscoll’s crime was murder, and the Irish-born twenty-seven year old former shoemaker is the fourteenth U.S. soldier to be executed in the war. To date, the Union Army has only executed two soldiers for desertion. (The Confederate Army’s first execution for desertion will not take place until August 1863.) According to official records, the Union Army executed 275 men for military offenses (there are no official records for the Confederate Army), but the best estimate is that over 500 soldiers were put to death during the war.