The post also included a jail to house Union deserters, as well as a hospital and a reception hall.

The total number of Union deserters far exceeded that of the South.

Local tradition has it that several Union deserters were executed against a brick wall on the estate.

In December 1863, the prison held over 2,000 men, including political prisoners, Union deserters, and Confederate prisoners of war.

Due to a Union deserter who revealed the Union plans to the Confederates, Butler never made an attack on Richmond, while Lee never requested reinforcements from the city.

He is most commonly remembered for his decision to allow four Union deserters to go free during the Civil War.

Others write of episodes that troubled them - the firing-squad execution of a Union deserter during the Civil War, for example - or that amazed and horrified them.

When a Union deserter attempts to rob and rape Scarlett, she kills him in self-defense and vengeance.

The soldiers humiliated Constable by making him swear allegiance to the federal government due to his decision to allow four Union deserters to go free in Marshall, Illinois.

A six men cavalry troop with a Mexican scout was dispatched who returned saying the sighted men were Union deserters who evaded capture.