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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1821 - Near Edgefield, South Carolina, Confederate General James Longstreet was born.
1864 - Seventeen-year-old David Owen Dodd was hanged. He was captured as he tried to cross Federal lines near Little Rock with notes in Morse code hidden in his shoe. After a military court found him guilty, he confessed that he had been sent to gather information about Union troops. Dodd may have been the youngest person hanged as a spy in the Civil War.
| "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." - Union General John Sedgwick spoke these words just moments before being shot dead by a confederate sniper at Spotsylvania |
