Executioners of A Sovereign State

A Southern officer in Canada, Captain John Yates Beall was captured at the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge in December 1864 after attempts to capture a US warship on Lake Erie, free Confederate prisoners at Johnson’s Island, and rescue seven imprisoned Southern generals near Buffalo. For taking the brutal war to the Northern border of the United States, he was summarily hung as a “guerilla and a spy” on February 24, 1865. Read it all HERE.