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[[Image:David-dodd.jpg|thumb|300px|David O. Dodd, Boy Martyr of the Confederacy.]]
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'''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."
  
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Roderick Lathrop "R. L." Dodge was a prominent Little Rock physician and pharmacist, and temperance advocate.
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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]].
  
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Dodge was born in Vermont in 1808. He graduated from the Medical Department of Dartmouth College in 1834. After graduation he became a medical missionary to the Cherokee and Creek in the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). He began publishing The Temperance Journal in 1844.
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Dodd is interred at [[Mount Holly Cemetery]]. [[David O. Dodd Elementary School]] on Stagecoach Road is named for him, as is Dodd Street.
  
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R.L. and his sixteen year old daughter Mary S. Dodge became embroiled in the case of David Owen Dodd, the "Boy Martyr of the Confederacy," in 1863. Dodd was a seventeen year old who was caught with a notebook detailing positions and number of Union troops occupying Little Rock. Dodd, who was purported in the city to make a tobacco deal for his father, had spent time with Mary at the Dodge home in Little Rock before his capture. Cast under a cloud of suspicion by occupying General Frederick Steele R.L. and Mary were summoned to a gunboat on the Arkansas River and escorted to Vermont for the duration of the Civil War. Dodd was hanged on January 8, 1864.
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==References==
  
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Dodge died on March 21, 1893, and is buried at Mount Holly Cemetery.
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*"Programs Set to Mark Death of Teen Hanged in Civil War," ''Arkansas Democrat-Gazette,'' January 8, 2009.
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==External links==
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[[Category:1864 deaths]]
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[[Category:Civil War]]

Latest revision as of 23:39, 29 January 2011

David O. Dodd, Boy Martyr of the Confederacy.

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.

External links

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