Provost—Marshal's Office, Department of the Cumberland
soldiers congregate there are sure to be found sharpers and thieves. In the
ranks of both armies were men who would not behave. In his report of
November 12, 1870, the Federal surgeon-general states that 103 men died of
homicide and there were 121 military executions during the Civil War. The
sentry in this photograph standing in the shade of the doorway of the
provost-marshal's headquarters, Department of the Cumberland, gives a hint
of the mailed hand that was necessary to govern the soldiery. In front of
the house two ropes are stretched between two posts. Here the guard tied its
horses when it clattered up with a prisoner.
page 183 in 1911 book
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