In Memory of Executed Prisoners

In Front Royal, Virginia, a cemetery at a place called Prospect Hill includes this memorial. A mile or so away, at the visitor center in town, a colorful sign bears the story of how seven prisoners of war were executed publicly by being shot and hanged by Union troops.

 

One of the prisoners shot in the street was a seventeen-year-old boy who had borrowed a neighbor's horse, that day, and joined the war effort.

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