Conley (Southern Victory)

Conley was a guard at the Andersonville prisoner of war camp. Like most guards, he enjoyed taunting the U.S. POWs with tales of Confederate victories and U.S atrocities. One day he mocked Jonathan Moss about the U.S. Authorities shooting women in Canada. Moss read the newspaper story that Conley gave him and discovered that Mary McGregor Pomeroy had been executed for the murders of his wife and daughter. Moss coldly told Conley that Pomeroy deserved to die and that he would have gladly been in the firing squad for what she had done to him. Conley was shocked and left dumbfounded.