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22 hours ago • Joseph Cress, The Sentinel
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At the drop of the hat held in his hand, Captain Webster consigned himself to an early death dangling at the end of a hangman's noose.
He came to the gallows on April 10, 1863, looking pale and drawn after a failed attempt to escape from custody while an inmate at Castle Thunder, a notorious prison in Richmond, Va.
In March 1863, a daily newspaper calling itself The Sentinel was started in the Confederate capital. It was a continuation of the Virginia Sentinel of Alexandria, which suspended publication in May 1861, said Frances Pollard, chief librarian with the present-day Virginia Historical Society.
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22 hours ago • Joseph Cress, The Sentinel
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At the drop of the hat held in his hand, Captain Webster consigned himself to an early death dangling at the end of a hangman's noose.
He came to the gallows on April 10, 1863, looking pale and drawn after a failed attempt to escape from custody while an inmate at Castle Thunder, a notorious prison in Richmond, Va.
In March 1863, a daily newspaper calling itself The Sentinel was started in the Confederate capital. It was a continuation of the Virginia Sentinel of Alexandria, which suspended publication in May 1861, said Frances Pollard, chief librarian with the present-day Virginia Historical Society.
The remainder is here: http://cumberlink.com/news/local/hi...11e2-b94f-001a4bcf887a.html?comment_form=true
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