David Owen Dodd
David O. Dodd was a seventeen year old man caught during the Civil War with a notebook detailing the positions and number of Union troops occupying Little Rock. Dodd was hanged as a spy on January 8, 1864. He is often described locally as the "boy martyr of the Confederacy."
A marker from the hanging site at St. John's College is now located on the grounds of the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History. The marker was removed from the actual site of the hanging during the construction of Interstate 30. The marker came to the museum from its prior location near I-30 on the campus of the William H. Bowen School of Law.
Dodd is interred at Mount Holly Cemetery. David O. Dodd Elementary School on Stagecoach Road is named for him, as is Dodd Street.
References
- "Programs Set to Mark Death of Teen Hanged in Civil War," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, January 8, 2009.
