Charles Brownlee,a Confederate from Tipton, Missouri, was executed after the Civil War ended based on a sentence of execution issued in 1863. (He escaped from jail just before that sentence was carried out.) In the spring of 1865, he supposedly wrote an appeal to General Sanborn begging not to be executed. I have read that this plea was printed in circular form and widely distributed. According to one site, "it brought a tear to the eye of many a Southern woman." I am looking for a copy of this appeal. I have found information on his time in jail in Boonville in 1863 and that he was captured and executed at Springfield in May 1865. Greene County has a few sources about the execution, but no copy of the appeal. Newspapers from that time period in Springfield do not exist. Does anyone know where I can find a copy of this appeal?