Name not reported
He was a sergeant of Company A, 12th New York Cavalry, held at Salisbury, according to a former prisoner's account printed in The National Tribune in 1896. The writer says that after a group of prisoners tried to escape, four men were held as hostages, and two were chosen by drawing marked tickets. The writer says guards shot this sergeant and the other chosen man while the remaining prisoners were marched away. The writer says he had given the sergeant a small compass in the hope it might help him escape, and that the two men were shot after saying farewell with smiling faces. The writer said he hoped the sergeant's family would learn what had happened to him.
Cause of death, as reported: Killed by staff. A former prisoner writing in The National Tribune says guards shot the sergeant after he was drawn as a hostage following an escape attempt.
Reported by: former prisoner writing in The National Tribune (witnesses).