The severe penalty of death, where a spy is captured, is not because there is anything dishonorable in the fact of the person being a spy, as only men of peculiar gifts for such service, men of courage and cool judgment and undoubted patriotism, are selected.
Dodge discusses the rationale behind the severe penalties for spies during wartime, emphasizing the qualities required for such roles.
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We were always careful that no cruelties were committed by enlisted men, but whatever was done was by the order of an officer.
I must say this is the first time I ever heard of national honor being sustained by such methods.
It is the duty of every companion here, as well as of every good citizen, to enter his protest against these unjust attacks.
It is upheld and maintained today, as it always has been, by the patriotism of our people as represented by our Army in the Civil War, in Cuba, the Philippines, and China.
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