Punishing Bushwhackers

Three men, named respectively Henry Kuhl, Hamilton W. Windon and Conrad Kuhl, have been tried by court-martial in Western Virginia, and found guilty of murdering a Union soldier. The two first named were sentenced to be hung, and the third to wear a ball and chain, and perform hard labor during the war. Major General Fremont, in an order issued on the 25th inst., confirmed the findings and sentence of the Court. The hanging is to take place at Suttonville on the 9th of May; and the ball and chain rascal is ordered to Camp Chase, to satisfy the violated law in that locality. Some examples like these will put an end to bushwhacking. Halleck and Fremont know how to deal with this peculiar species of traitors.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 2