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Youthful Confederate spy executed at Little Rock by Union soldiers
On this day in 1864, seventeen-year-old David Owen Dodd was hanged. The Texas native 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.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- DODD, DAVID OWEN
- CIVIL WAR
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