David Owen Dodd was a young boy at the age of seventeen years old, who was a confederate.On December 24, 1863, he sent David Dodd—a minor and therefore assumed neutral—to Little Rock to deliver letters to former associates seeking investments for the tobacco deal. Confederate Gen. James F. Fagan issued the boy a pass. Dodd rode a mule to Little Rock, carrying a birth certificate showing he was an underage 17 along with his pass. Long story short he got caught with some very important papers which led on to him eventually getting tried and hanged for treason.But since he was a lady’s man while he was in town he met a girl and decided he wanted to attend a dance with her, and if he wouldn't have attended the dance and left when he was supposed to then he most likely wouldn't have been stopped twice, and wouldn't have been tried and hanged for treason.Though he did not reveal the source of the information, a young girl named Mary Dodge and her father were summarily escorted back to their home in Vermont. These events have led to him being called the "Arkansas Boy Martyr of the Confederacy".Many people believe he definitely should have been hanged and he got what he deserved,union, while others believe that he was just a boy and he didn't know what he was doing,confederate. …show more content…
Another reason he should have been hanged was he knew what he was doing he was almost an adult and if he was old enough to work for someone to be their spy then he is old enough to get the consequences that come along with the