Timothy Webster was a British-born American lawman and soldier.
12 Facts About Timothy Webster
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Timothy Webster served as a Pinkerton agent and Union spy, and was the first spy in the American Civil War to be executed.
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Timothy Webster became a policeman in New York City sometime before 1850.
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Timothy Webster met Allan Pinkerton in 1853 and took a job with Pinkerton's private detective agency in 1856.
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Timothy Webster married Charlotte Sprowles on October 23,1841 in Princeton, New Jersey and the couple had four children, two of whom died young.
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Timothy Webster's body was transported north to Onarga, Illinois and buried in the Onarga Cemetery next to his grandfather, Timothy Webster Sr.
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Some information provided by Timothy Webster gave support to Pinkerton's assertion that there was a Baltimore Plot to assassinate Lincoln as he moved through Baltimore on his way to his inauguration in 1861.
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Timothy Webster continued to gather information on the Confederacy from 1861 through 1862 in southern Maryland and Richmond, Virginia.
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When Pinkerton heard the news of the sentence, he and President Lincoln sent a message to the Confederacy threatening that if Timothy Webster was put to death, the Union would reciprocate by hanging a Confederate spy.
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The Confederacy ignored the threat and on April 29,1862, Timothy Webster climbed the gallows in Richmond, Virginia at Camp Lee.
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Timothy Webster was buried in Richmond, but in 1871, Pinkerton sent George Bangs and Thomas G Robinson to Richmond to locate his body and bring it to Onarga, Illinois for burial.
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Timothy Webster was buried next to his father, Timothy Webster Sr.