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General Dodge still had hope that Davis would reveal the name of the traitor in the Federal camp, and thus save his own life.
One of the officers of General Dodge rapidly approached the scaffold, and asked the youth if it would not be better for him to speak the name of the person from whom he had received the document found upon him, adding:
‘It is not too late yet!’
Davis replied: ‘If I had a thousand lives, I would lose them all before I would betray my friends, or the confidence of my informer.’
He then requested the officer to thank General Dodge for his efforts to save him, but to repeat that he could not accept the terms.
Turning to the chaplain he asked that a few keepsakes be kept for his mother.
He then said that he was ready, ascended the scaffold, and stepped upon the trap.
Another noble young life was sacrificed for love of the South.
Richmond, VA. 1897.
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