America’s Civil War: July 1998 From the Editor

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On April 29, 1862, Webster was taken to Camp Lee, on the old Richmond fairgrounds, and placed on the scaffold. Still crippled by rheumatism, he was fitted with a hood and the trapdoor was sprung. Webster fell to the ground stunned–the noose had slipped off–and murmured, “I suffer a double death.” The noose was then refitted so tightly that Webster complained, “You will choke me to death this time.” He was wrong; the noose held, and Webster became the first American to be hanged as a spy since Nathan Hale in the Revolutionary War. Spying is a dangerous game.

Roy Morris, Jr., Editor, America’s Civil War

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