In a few days an officer came

“In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.”

— William Hull

Author: William Hull
Category: morning
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Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support,

“Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.”

— William Hull

Author: William Hull
Category: sympathy
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