History may not repeat itself, but could it rhyme?Civil War historian Dr. Michael R. Bradley raised that possibility Thursday at The Rotary Club of McMinnville during his homage to Sam Davis, known as the “boy hero of the confederacy.” The 21-year-old Davis, son of a prosperous Smyrna plantation owner, was hanged Nov. 27 1863 after a Union courts martial at Pulaski.After his capture with incriminating documents on Union movements and fortifications, Davis faced his death sentence with calm resolve and the determination not to reveal his collaborators in espionage against the Northern army then occupying Middle Tennessee. “If I had 1,000 lives to lose, I would lose them all before I would betray a friend,” he told his Union captors, who had offered to spare his life and set him free if he would just give up their names, Bradley said.In an effort calculated to force that information out of their prisoner, Federal officers applied psychological pressure in the expectation he would save his own life at the expense of others.