Execution of a Deserter

HARPER'S WEEKLY.

FEBRUARY 18, 1865.

110

A MILITARY EXECUTION.

WE illustrate on page 109 the military execution private NEWELL W. ROOT, alis GEORGE H. HARRIS, for the crime of desertion, at City Point, January 27,1865. It appears that, deluded by General LEE'S Order No. 65, he had made his way through the rebel lines and found his way to Louisa, Kentucky, where he was arrested while attempting to pass himself off as one of their deserters. He was one of 170 misguided men who had deserted to the enemy, and left Richmond on the 10th October last. Seventy of these have already been arrested, fifteen executed, and unrelenting martial law is still on the track of the remainder.

MILITARY PRISONS IN CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.

WE give on page 108 two illustrations representing the prisons in which our officers have been confined at Charleston, S. C. In last August the jail and yard were occupied by six hundred army and navy officers, who were placed under the fire of our batteries on Morris Island. They were occupied at the same time by felons, murderers, lewd women, deserters from both armies, United States colored soldiers, and Southern slaves, most of whom were permitted to walk at will among the officers. When all the Federal officers were moved from Macon to Charleston, at the time of STONEMAN'S raid, the Work-house and Roper Hospital had to be used as prisons. Of the former we give an illustration. The Roper Hospital was the finest building ever used for a military prison North or South. Indeed, the officers preferred that the shelling should be ten times as severe than to be removed to any other prison.

EASTPORT, MISSISSIPPI.

WE have engraved on page 108 a view of Eastport, Mississippi General THOMAS'S recent head-quarters. The town is situated on the west side of the Tennessee River. General THOMAS'S head-quarters are on the hill to the left, and General A. J. SMITH'S on the steamer Lilly. The Carondelet, Lexington, Neosho, and Gladiator are on the river. The main portion of the town is not disclosed in the sketch, it being situated behind the hill to the left. It is just at the mouth of Bear Creek.

The rebel army have gone into winter-quarters a few miles south of Eastport, at Tupelo. It will not be long before we shall again hear from General THOMAS.

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