"A Deserter"

A deserter named Andrew McDonough, who had been absent two weeks from Company F, 25th Regiment N.Y., (Kerrigan) Regiment, on Sunday afternoon came into the camp and gave himself up, saying that he was a deserter, had robbed a man in Washington of $7, and wanted to be shot. His manner was incoherent and wild, though he was not considered crazy. He was put in the guard house, where were three other men. At 3 o’clock this morning he rushed wildly out, and put his arms about the guard, who threw him down when he discovered that McDonough was hurt. He was removed to the Colonel’s quarters, where he died in five minutes.

An examination showed that his throat was cut in the most ghastly manner, and that he had four bayonet wounds in the pit of the stomach, each fatal. The musket with the bloody bayonet attached, was found, but no other weapon was seen. The theory of the officers is, that it is a suicide; but quite as probably, it is murder. McDonough was buried near Fort Ellsworth last night.