Twelve Confederate Raiders Executed in Atlanta Jail Raid Narrative
The memoir describes twelve Knoxvillians captured for spying and executed after a swift court martial. It details last words, ministerial counsel, and the grim process from Knoxville to Atlanta, with scenes of death, prayer, and a later burial in Chattanooga National Cemetery.
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Renas Geance
KE. Nirby Smith
O. P. Teaple
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Marietta
Day of Death at Knoxville Prison Detention
A June day at a Tennessee jail ends with seven prisoners led to execution. Officers read the names, including Ja D Wilson, as guards guard the room and the doomed line up for the scaffold amid fear, fever, and tense whispers.
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East Tennessee
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Sciemn
Ja. D. Wilson
Seven Confederate prisoners execute on scaffold at cemetery
The scene describes a secret Confederate execution at a cemetery site near a monument to Confederate dead. Seven men climb the scaffold, pass under a rope-linked beam, and face death with grave composure. Wilson, their spokesman, delivers a powerful final address.
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