U.S. ARMY BRANDING OF DESERTERS
Pvt. John Riley given several hundred lashes and branded on both cheeks as deserter (Boston Daily Atlas, Aug. 10, 1848)
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Aug. 4, 1862
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Aug. 8, 1873
 

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE U.S. NAVY
Flogging in the U.S. Navy
Commander V. Randolph to Commodore Parker, July 12, 1849
Watson G. Haynes to Secretary U.S. Navy, Nov. 19, 1849
Commodore Parker to Secretary U.S. Navy, Sept. 6, 1851
 

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ON WHITES
12-year-old boy lashed at a N.Y. state whipping post (Daily National Intelligencer, May 27, 1822)
Imprisonment and lashes for gambling Faro Table (Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, March 23, 1824)
Branded for grand larceny (Pensacola Gazette and West Florida Advertiser, July 6, 1827)
Swindler lashed in Natchez (Natchez Gazette, Oct. 20, 1830)
39 lashes at the whipping post for beating his wife (Arkansas Gazette, June 16, 1835)
List of crimes and pubishments in North Carolina (Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette, March 6, 1846)
Pillory and Whipping-Post (Boston Investigator, Feb. 26, 1851)
12 lashes at the whipping post for stealing a horse (Fayette Observer, March 27, 1854)
Branded and imprisoned for manslaughter (Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register, April 12, 1854)
20 lashes to a thief at the whipping post in Parkersburg, Va. (Boston Daily Atlas, Sept. 11, 1855)
39 lashes for cow stealing (Savannah Daily Morning News, Nov. 24, 1856)
Branded and 6 months imprisonment for the manslaughter of a slave (Weekly Raleigh Register, Oct. 21, 1857)
Punishments in North Carolina include branding the cheek of a bigamist (Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, June 27, 1859)
Sentence Day: 39 lashes for larceny and fine or imprisonment for beating a slave (Charleston Courier, Nov. 1, 1859)
Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas (Charleston Courier, Feb. 22, 1864)
Castration in Indiana (Chicago Inter-Ocean, Feb. 15, 1876)
Sentenced to sixty years for castration in N.C. (St. Louis Globe Democrat, Sept. 30, 1879)
 

THE WILSON C. BAKER-WILLIAM O. HOFFMAN CASE IN ST. LOUIS IN 1854
Hoffman lashed and castrated by Baker
Attempted Seduction!--Severe and Summary Punishment (N.Y. Times, March 22, 1854)
The Outrage at St. Louis (The Liberator, April 7, 1854)
Sequel to the Hoffman and Baker Affair (Daily Cleveland Herald, April 11, 1854)
The Baker and Hoffman Affair in St. Louis (North American and United States Gazette, April 13, 1854)
Murder and Riot (Chillicothe Daily Scioto Gazette, April 15, 1854)
William O. Hoffman died of his wound (Daily National Intelligencer, April 20, 1854)
Heavy Forfeiture (Daily National Intelligencer, Nov. 15, 1854)
Mrs. Baker Acquitted (Daily National Intelligencer, Nov. 28, 1854)
Acquittal (Boston Investigator, Dec. 6, 1854)
Wilson C. Baker death (St. Louis Globe Democrat, April 8, 1880)
A Woman's Vengeance (St. Louis Globe Democrat, Oct. 16, 1887)