The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01
4 MONUMENT IS JUST
 ERECTED IN HIS HONOR
yarts of His Enemies Borrowed
 for Him.
Untsi the Trap was spruns He wa' oaerea His Life if He Would Be tray the Maa Who G~ve Hin the secrets of the
 Union Army.
ny wTLL w. NELSON.

than hetray a 1confdence; a man who Ia willing to give up his own llLe to @ave inc life of an enemy, is indeed martyr of all martyrs and man "ho as worthy of the name of nero.
 We often hear of men betraying .n.aAanea nnAraIy for self gatns Dur hoyr many men we have evern known who gave up their lives rather than ne- +raw a confidence and die to save tns Ifa of an enemy because tnat enemy eonffded in them? can recall put ons and that one was a beardless country youth, a native of the state oL .s naeaee a scout in the1 ConfeoeraLe srrav--saua Davis was his name he waa A hardy country youth, haVlhs been born and reared on the sunny hMis of old Tennessee.
 He loved hts native hilfs. he loved 6ha south better than he loved ms own ldfe and he died willingly Tor rne Southern cause; he died 70 save Ie life of an enemy because that enemy had confidence in him and the true aouthern manhood which he possessea would not permit him to betray con- ndence although his refusal to do 50 roaf him his life, Yet life was as dear to Sam Davis as it was to any otn- er-lad of his tender years. There was his mother, his father, his sWeelne"as and the prospects of many years or hanniness and usefulness before him. ra.lsl+iss hs though of all this and of ahe old home as well, where nc was horn and reared and where his ageo mother and father resided ana no doubt life seemed dearer To nm Ineh than 1t saver had seemed beIore. put when he was called upon % onoss 4vvean life and death he choBe deatn rather than to betray confidence, and fhna ha died to save thelifs of R Fed ersI ofscer who hsa e6nnded ht ham
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 s.s4s s1saNia was e. ConRedsrate scout ana Belonged to Captain E. Colemans command. He was commiss1oneo on ana an Northern A1abama. Ono aft- arnoon in the early winter of the year 4aka Sam Davis was captured by me TsssevaIa on the Lambs Ferry wagon road not far from Pulaski, Tenn: He was taken to Pulaski and placed ID Federal prison, charged with peine confeaerate spy. He was searched ~SS ,r fba sole of one of his boots roaluable lpapers were found 0Sher naT,ara were found concealed tn his ~aSdIa. These papers included maps nnA deacriptions of the Federal 6orti- 0cations at Nashville and at other nointg In Tennessee. as well as detau- ed report of the Union army In Ten- nessee. 2.
 
 nviaonrnent Sam Davis was taken to GeneraI Dodge's headquarters and Gem eraa Dodge told him chat he was charged with being a Confederate spy ana that the penalty of this was death. general Dodge said he must Know where lae got these papers and pre- vailed upon Davis to tell, cauttoning stvn of inc gravity of the charge and fellinw him he was young and ehat he saId not seem to realize the danger ha waa in, Davis told General Dodge ha knew his danger and said he was willing to die before he would Oetray s. the man who had given him the pa- pers. Right here it might pc weH 70 ~av that from all information there IS h,st little question but that the man who gave Davis the papers was an of- . deer in the Federal army under Gen" sral DodRa's command. General Dodge UieaA with Davis long and earnestly to reveal the name of the man who gave him the papers and by so doing save his own life. But Davis firmly rerused 4aif{nR General Dodge to courtmaFtial stn, S he would but he would never reveal the name of his infomer and That he felt by refusing that he was AoinR his duty to his God and to his native Southland.
 The CourtnartIal was called and Sam Davis was found guilty of being Con 9aderate spy. He was sentenced to hang on Friday, November 25th. 1883 1etween inc hours of 10 a. m., and 3 D. m. On the date specified little after 1e o'clock in the morning, Sam TJayia was hanged until dead. After ha was taken to the place of his exc cu4Ion that morning he was again nreyailed upon to give the name of hii informer, with the promise to spare his own life. But he stin refused, say ing; ,,
 loose them all here before would be- tray my friends or the confidence of my 'A The Last NiHh4.
 The night before Sam Davis was ex- cuted he wrote letter to his mother, teIlinx her to think of him when he waa dead. but not to grieve for him. ii was on e hillside on the outskirts cF Pulaslxi. Tenn, that Sam Davis was hanged. The execution was under the directions of Captain Armstrong. Cap tain Armstrong toia Ravis that he did not want to see him die and that he would almost rather die himself than to be forced, as he was, to give the connnand for Davis execution. Davis told Captain Armstrong that he was doing hIs duty as a soldier and that he dId not think hard of him for doing his duty.
 At the last moment General Dodge sent Captain Chiekasaw, of his own stan to Davis with the hope that Davis would give the name of his Informer and thus prevent his own execution. But Davis told Captain chickasaw that he could not accept General DodEe's terms and that he was willing and ready to die for what he considered right. He said he desired to thank General Dodge for the interest he had d. kN md FOVa t0 aya his life. It Is evident that in trying to save Sam Davis life General Dodge had two objects in view. In the first place Davis was young and brave and General Dodge felt an interest in him and did not want to take his life. Tn t, Ahe second place General Dodge sus-