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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 49 1 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 30 4 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II. 29 3 Browse Search
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 15 1 Browse Search
Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863. 10 0 Browse Search
William F. Fox, Lt. Col. U. S. V., Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865: A Treatise on the extent and nature of the mortuary losses in the Union regiments, with full and exhaustive statistics compiled from the official records on file in the state military bureaus and at Washington 8 0 Browse Search
Edward Porter Alexander, Military memoirs of a Confederate: a critical narrative 6 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 6 2 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 5 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 5 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], Execution of a Confederate. (search)
s to the execution of his son removed his family to Little Rock, and had sent his son back on business. While there he gained important information in regard to the garrison and defences of the city, and had noted them in telegraphic characters in his memorandum book. On his way to Camden he was by a Federal scout, who searched him and found the fated book. He was taken to Little Rock, tried by court martial, and sentenced to be hung as a spy. Previous to his execution, Gens. Steele and Davidson both conversed with him, assuring him of their sympathy on account of his extreme youth. And as they knew some one intimate about their headquarters had given him the information, they proffered to release him on condition he would divulge the name of his informant. This he scorned to do, saying if a wrong had been committed he was the guilty one, and "that a man that would not die for his principles was not " When brought to the ascended it, calmly pulled off his coat and met his fate