Albert Willis was a member of the Confederacy’s Mosby’s Raiders. Willis and an unnamed comrade were captured and sentenced to be hung. Willis, as a Divinity student, was offered a Chaplain’s exemption. Knowing his friend was married, and he was not, young Willis gave his exemption to that comrade; entrusted his soul to the Savior, and then was hanged for his pal. During the Civil War, on both sides, there were many men and women, like Willis, who knew their God; who knew their duty.
