Note 14 — Chapter X · GROUPS ON THE DECK.
Reading edition
It afterwards appeared that the Vicksburg “gentlemen,” impatient at their want of success, selected a man who came nearest to the description of Gashface, shot him, and then marked his body in a way to satisfy the expectations of those who had formed an imaginative idea of the personal peculiarities that would identify the celebrated liberator, so long the terror of masters on the Mississippi.