Two spies (Lincoln's detective police) have been arrested
here, tried by court-martial, and condemned to be hung. There is an awful
silence among the Baltimore detectives, which bodes no harm to the condemned.
They will not be executed, though guilty.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 118-9
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