The landlady agreed and the ceremony was set up for that evening. I said I understand the circumstances of its death, of the terrible era it had come from, and I told it forcefully that it needed help. At that moment, the clock struck midnight. But here we had a young man who died traumatically. We did the right thing and freed him.
Many people think so.
Since that eerie night in 1982, there have been no further sightings of Selma's unhappy young Confederate. Visitors to this site.