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13, 1&64. Willis was a young Baptist layman. He was hanged by command of General Powell, a Union officer, in retaliation for a Union soldier said to have been killed by Mosby’s men. t'he Union soldier was acting as a spy. Willis is remembered because he willingly took the place of a comrade; the comrade feeling that he was not prepared to die. We like to think that his sacrifice illustrates the death of Christ for, “Greater love hath no man than this; that
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