Execution of seven of the Ohio railway raiders, Atlanta, Georgia, June 18, 1862, artist's impression

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Sized, cropped, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, April 13, 2012.

Depicted ContentCivil War Spies

Depicted ContentIn Atlanta, the captured Union raiders from the failed attack on the Georgia rail system stage a mass escape

Depicted ContentIn Atlanta, seven Union raiders from the failed attack on the Georgia rail system are hanged as spies

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The Speech of Wilson on the Scaffold

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William Pittender, The Great Locomotive Chase: A History of the Andrews Railroad Raid into Georgia in 1862 (New York: Jones and Stanley, 1893), 287.

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