Michigan. This shows that the man who, in his
youth, tried to dissuade his friend Nathan Hale
from accepting the r61e of martyr, himself, in his
old age, bravely and gently endured a martyrdom
compared to which the ostracism he predicted for
Hale, even if he succeeded in his mission, was but
a passing dream.

_____(5) Stephen Hempslead_____

To Stephen Hempstead, a sergeant in Nathan
Hale's company in 1776, we are indebted for the
most reh'able account that is known of Hale's
movements after he left New York in the service
from which he was not to return. Sergeant Hempstead
removed to Missouri after the war, and this
account was first published in the Missouri Republican
in 1827. His own words describing his
last days with Hale are these:

"Captain Hale was one of the most accomplished
officers, of his grade and age, in the army. He
was a native of the town of Coventry, state of
Connecticut, and a graduate of Yale College--young,
brave, honorable--and at the time of his
death a Captain in Col. Webb's Regiment of
Continental Troops. Having never seen a circumstantial
account of his untimely and melancholy
end, I will give it. I was attached to his

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