Fort Jefferson at the Dry Tortugas
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in March 1864:
SENTENCED TO BE SHOT. – At a recent court martial, presided over by Capt. Winfield Scott, of the 126th Regiment, private Chas. Audler, of the 108th Regiment, was tried, convicted, and sentenced to be shot, for desertion. The sentence of the Court has been approved by Gen. Meade, and it will be carried into effect on Friday of next week.
Or maybe not:
sent to the Gulf of Mexico
Captain Winfield Scott would leave the army for a different reason:
wounded in May
According to the National Park Service the prisoners at Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas during the Civil War were indeed mostly army deserters.
