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The Daily Dispatch: March 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The execution of M. Gibson (search)
The execution of M. Gibson --A correspondence of the Selma Mississippian, writing from Demopolis, Ala., March 12, furnishes the following account of the execution of McGibbon a Federal spy: David McGibbon the Federal spy the particulars of whose arrest you published a short since, was executed here yesterday. Such an event, of course, attracted an immense crowd to the ground where the scaffold was erected, which was about one mile northeast of the town, in a beautiful pine grove. Four companies of the 5th Missouri, Lt. Col. McDowell, having been detailed as guard, were placed in a circular line around the platform from which the doomed man was to descend to death. Inside the ring were the workmen who had constructed the scaffold, the executioner, and a few other officials. The condemned was conveyed to the place of execution in a wagon, seated on his coffin, and accompanied by his spiritual advisers, and escorted by a company of cavalry. He appeared to be about forty