David Owen Dodd, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American boy hanged as a spy in the American Civil War
Date of Birth: 10-Nov-1846
Place of Birth: Lavaca County, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 08-Jan-1864
Profession: spy
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About David Owen Dodd
- David Owen Dodd (November 10, 1846 – January 8, 1864), also known as David O.
- Dodd, was an Arkansas youth executed for spying in the American Civil War.In December 1863 Dodd carried some letters to business associates of his father in Union-held Little Rock, Arkansas.
- While traveling to rejoin his family at Camden, Arkansas, he mistakenly re-entered Federally-held territory.
- Discovering that he did not have a pass, U.S.
- soldiers questioned him and found that he was carrying a notebook with the locations of Federal troops in the area.
- He was arrested and tried by a military tribunal, with little defense offered for his actions.
- It found him guilty of spying and sentenced him to death.
- He was hanged on January 8, 1864.
- Though he did not reveal the source of the information, a young girl named Mary Dodge and her father were summarily escorted back to their home in Vermont.
- These events have led to him being called the "Arkansas Boy Martyr of the Confederacy".
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