Raynors HCA 2017-02
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Booklet, 5” x 7”, “Escape of a Confederate Officer From Prison: What He Saw at Andersonville; How He Was Sentenced to Death and Saved by the Interposition of President Abraham Lincoln” Samuel B. Davis, 72pp., separate color covers now laminated, Landmark Publishing, Norfolk Virginia, 1892. It opens with this, “THE CONFEDERATE SPY, Through the Union Lines and Many Perils. Daring Mission of a Young Confederate Officer to Ohio and to Canada — Narrow Escape from the Gallows. WAS THIS ANOTHER ANDRE CASE ? The above was the heading of an article which recently appeared in at least one newspaper published in Virginia, and it began as follows : ‘ Lt. S. B. Davis, of the Confederate Service, probably came the nearest of any officer on either side to playing the role of the Andre of the Rebellion.’ So it began, and the ending was : To the end he kept the secret of his mission to Ohio."
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