On the morning of his execution, the courage and obstinacy which had sustained him from the day of his arrest, gave way, and to the minister who edited upon him, he made a full confession of his having been sent to Mississippi as a spy for Sherman, and that he had already supplied that yankee General with valuable information of the strength and capacity of Vicksburg for resistance.

He was very much humiliated at being condemned to death by hanging and made application for the sentence to be changed to shooting, but the military authorities declined acceding to his demand, and he was accordingly hanged on the branches of a tree near Jackson.

A small mound of earth in an obscure portion of the Confederacy is all that is left to mark the remains of Horace Awtry.
The libertine and prosecutor of Mrs.Wentworth is no more, and to God we leave him.

In His hands the soul of the dead will be treated as it deserves, and the many sins which stain and blacken it will be punished by the Almighty as they deserve.

Black as was his guilt, we have no word of reproach for the dead.