Sam Davis, Boy Hero of the Confederacy

Sam Davis was a member of Coleman's Scouts, of the Confederate Army. While on a scouting mission, he was captured in southern Tennessee. He was held in Pulaski, TN for 7 days. He would not tell the name of his officers or who had given him the Union information that he was captured with, supposedly saying "I would rather die a thousand deaths than betray a friend." He would be hanged in Pulaski on November 27, 1863. He was buried in a cemetery there, but someone from his family came and retrieved his body and took him to his home in Smyrna, Tennessee.