The Hazards Of Being A Middle Manager

I've seen this story twice now, but as there is very little supporting evidence to be found on the web, I'm not convinced it isn't apocryphal. Still, it didn't stop me from gleefully showing it to my boss - after all, I've gotta keep him in line somehow.

Union Brig. Gen. Thomas Wilson, an 1837 West Point graduate from Michigan and New York, was killed in a peculiar way. He was literally blown up into pieces. His volunteer soldiers wanted no part of his strict discipline and harsh treatments. He fell into the carefully prepared traps twice in the occupied North Carolina but escaped death. The rank and file had no other way to voice their grievance or escaped future punishment. For self-preservation, fragging may be their only way out of their 'box.' When transferred to the West, the western soldiers were more daring. Wilson was seized by his own men and was held in front of their cannon as target, being blown to pieces.