…End Up in America's Most Hallowed Cemetery?.
"TROOPS OF THE Independent Cavalry Brigade, 22nd Corps, Department of Washington, assembled on Ayr's Hill in Vienna, Virginia on Feb, 7, 1864 to witness the execution of Private William E. Ormsby, Company E, 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry.
Ormsby had deserted his post on Jan. 24, while on picket duty at Lewinsville, just three miles west of Washington D.C. Taking two horses and six pistols with him, he went to join up with Colonel John Mosby's Confederate Rangers. [1]
Little is known of Private Ormsby's background except that he was a member of the regiment's so-called California Battalion, companies that had been recruited in the Golden State. Allegedly, Ormsby had a relationship with a woman in Aldie, Virginia who had close ties to the Confederacy…"
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