Timothy Webster
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Timothy Webster was a British-born American lawman and soldier. He served as a Pinkerton agent and Union spy, and was the first spy in the American Civil War to be executed.
1910 sketch of Webster
Timothy Webster, with fellow Union, Pinkerton agent, Hattie Lawton, before his execution by hanging, in Richmond, Virginia, for wartime espionage, from the 1882 book The Spy of the Rebellion: Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army During the Late Rebellion..., by Allan Pinkerton
Webster's grave at Onarga Cemetery
George B. McClellan
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George Brinton McClellan was an American military officer, politician, and engineer who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey from 1878 to 1881, as Commanding General of the United States Army fro
Portrait by Mathew Benjamin Brady, 1861
The Julian Scott portrait of McClellan in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
McClellan and Ellen Mary "Nelly" (Marcy) McClellan
Patriotic cover honoring the arrival of McClellan in Washington, D.C., on July 26, 1861