Letters and accounts concerning John Yates Beall, 1865-1935.

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Letters and accounts concerning John Yates Beall, 1865-1935.

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Papers relative to the execution of Beall, a Confederate officer hanged for privateering on the Great Lakes in 1865, including letters from Beall to Mrs. Algernon Sydney Sullivan, letters from Albert Ritchie to Mrs. Sullivan, and a copy of a newspaper article about Beall.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Ritchie, Albert S.

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Sullivan, Algernon Sydney, Mrs,

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Beall, John Y. (John Yates), 1835-1865

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John Yates Beall (1835-1865), Confederate soldier and acting master in the Confederate Navy. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Beall joined Company G of the 2nd Virginia Volunteers. After accepting a naval appointment in 1863, Beall led a failed attempt to free Confederate prisoners on Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio. He was captured soon after, tried before a Union military commission for espionage and violating the laws of war, and hanged at Governor's Island, N.Y., on 24 February 1865....