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Sam Davis was a Confederate soldier executed by Union forces in Pulaski, Tennessee, as a spy, during the American Civil War. He is popularly known as the Boy Hero of the Confederacy, although he was 2
Davis in uniform
Sam Davis statue dedication in 1909, Tennessee State Capitol
Sam Davis House in Smyrna, Tennessee
Interpretive exhibit displays at Davis Home
Smyrna, Tennessee
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Smyrna is a town located in Rutherford County, Tennessee. Smyrna's population was 53,070 at the 2020 census, making it the largest town in Tennessee by population in that census. Smyrna is part of the
Sam Davis
…Davis family owned fifty-one enslaved people by 1860. As a boy Sam Davis was gifted his own enslaved person, named Coleman Davis. He attended school in Smyrna, Tennessee, and was educated at the Western Military Institute – now Montgomery Bell Academy – from 1860–61. While there he came under the influence of headmaster…
Smyrna Town Hall, July 2014