Sam Davis Home Summary

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The Analysis of the Sam Davis Home
In preparation of attending the Sam Davis Home and Plantation, I read a scholarly journal, and read the Sam Davis website for a little more background on what I’d be seeing, and how the tour would work. I read the scholarly article “The Sam Davis Home: Where too soon sleeps a boy Who died too soon a man,” I read that there is not much documented about Sam except his journals, diaries, and military communications. He was one of thirteen siblings, three siblings were half-siblings from Charles Lewis, Sam’s father, and ten more from Charles late wife and Sam’s mother, Jane Simmons Davis. Also, the article discussed what Sam did to get arrested and put on trial, and his later hanging. The Sam Davis home …show more content…
Sam entered the Civil War at eighteen years old, with his step-brother, John—who was a bit older than Sam— John was a spy in Nashville, Tennessee and Sam were delivering messages to another general from the missions that John had completed. On his way to Chattanooga, Tennessee he was caught by Federal Troops, who took him in. They found the messages, and interrogated him to give up the spy. When he did not give in he was charged with accounts of being a courier of mail, and of being a spy. Sam admitted to being a courier but pled not guilty to being a spy. Sam was then hanged on November 27, 1863, only two years into the military at age twenty-one.
This site is historic because it is a symbol for an American-hero. Sam Davis was eighteen when he joined the army as a private, later joining Coleman’s Scouts. He was more important than his other siblings because he was the oldest, and he was killed after two years of being in the military. I also think it important because his family was a middle-class family, whose house was on one-hundred and sixty-eight acres of plantation. But, not much is actually known about some of the siblings, especially Sam. There were no actual photographs and not many documents about him or his
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