Life Span
to
Full name
Timothy Webster
Place of Birth
England
Burial Place
Onarga, IL
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
4
Family
Timothy Webster (father), Charlotte Sprowles (wife)
Occupation
Other
Other Occupation
policeman, espionage agent
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Date Event
In Richmond, Virginia, Union agent Timothy Webster becomes the first spy executed during the war
Civil War Spies
How to Cite This Page: "Webster, Timothy," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/38979.