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The following was submitted by: Terry Baker

The Nashville Dispatch for May 6, 1862, ran a paragraph stating that Wm Rowland of
the 54th Tenn Vols was captured among the Federals in Federal uniform on April 6, 1862
at Shiloh. The article said he had been shot by firing squad in front of the
Tennessee regiments. I found a William Carol Roland of Co G, 54th Tenn Inf. He was 36 at
his enlistment in Lawrenceburg TN on Nov 30, 1861. His records agree with the newspaper
account, and copies of the order for his execution were signed by Beauregard, Hardee,
Bragg, Breckinridge and one whose name I can't make out. The order was dated
April 11, 1862, from Corinth MS, and the execution was to take place at 4pm on April 12.
Apparently it did take place.

I came across a third reference to the execution of William C. Roland of 54th
Tenn Inf. Sam Watkins mentions it on pages 34-35 of Company Aytch. He witnessed
the execution and gave an account of Roland's last words.
http://www.civilwardata.com/active/hdsquery.dll?SoldierHistory?C&1064108

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