TRIAL OF JOHN BEALL As a Spy and Guerrillero 1865 Civil War Confederate Hanged

  

BEALL As a Spy and Guerrillero. Appleton and Company, New York 1865 with 94 pages, 2 pages of ads.

Original paper wraps have glue residue from tape. Contents are clean, tight and in very good condition.

Book measures 5 3/4'' x 9''. Beall was a Confederate navy officer hanged as a spy by Union authorities at the end of the Civil War.

A militiaman who witnessed the execution of John Brown. In 1859, Beall joined the Stonewall Brigade. And participated in the Shenandoah Valley Campaign. (1862), during which he became separated from his unit. He moved to Iowa and then to Canada, where he eventually joined the Confederate navy and planned and sometimes executed various clandestine missions.

After being captured again at Niagara Falls, this time when he attempted to derail trains carrying Confederate prisoners, Beall was tried for spying. The charges cited a failed attempt to seize a civilian passenger boat and use it to capture a Union gunboat, an aborted mission in which Beall disguised himself as a passenger. Beall was defended by a prominent New York City attorney and ninety-two members of the U. Congress signed a petition for his pardon, President Lincoln refused a pardon so he was hanged on February 24, 1865.