Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1836-07-28
DR.. Thomas HAMMOND.
No. 81
HAeERsrowN, UNIV mo-. lsAl

| Dr. THOMAS HAMMOND.
I No. g.
HAGERsrowN, July 10, 1886.
received yours, this morning, and
will proceed 10 state the conversation
fhad with you, as correctly as can.
You stated that early in the morning
after the attack, you rode out TO Mr..
Shepherd s and requested him to deli.
yer a note to doctor Parran that Mr..
Shepherd called at the Doctors and did
not see him; that after calm one or
more times he returned TO the coun.
try, and advised postponement Of the
delivery of the note, until the next
morning; that you objected; and from
what you had heard from several per-
sons of the desperate manner it was
said by doctor Parran's friends the az
fair should terminate, If he was chal-
lenged, you insisted upon Mr. Shep-
herd 8 seeing him as soon as possible (;
that Mr.. S. called again, and was told
he was at Mrs. Morgan's that he
went to Mrs. Morgan's, asked for tho
doctor, who came to the door. MIR. S.
delivered the note ; the doctor replied,
that his friend, Col. Lucas, was out of
town, and would not return before
night, and that he would give him an
answer in the morning that some
time the next day, about midday or
noon, Col. Lucas saw Mr.. Shepherd,
and proposed iftbe challenge was NTH
drawn, that he was prepared tox1l@kc
an apology; that Mr.. S. or DEL.
refused to. withdraw the challenge I'M
less Col. Lucas would pledge his honor
that the apology should DO satsfacto.
ry; upon That pledge being given, the
challenge was Withdrawn, and the apo
logy given; Col. Lucas wished To-
know if such an apology as three dis.
interested friends or gentlemen should
say ought TO be satisfactory asked
you what was the apology; you said
that he acknowledged the attack was
ungentemanly and daStardly; and that
the apology was continued until the
gentleman said they were sufficiently
full and satisfactory. have not heard
any thing said in town, since the first
few days after ! heard Mr.. d. South
say in Mr.. Horbert's office, where
there were some six or eight persons.
that the way he heard the report was,
that you had made an apology and
withdrawn the challenge; and n Mr..
Sheckles, who we met in Sharpsburg,
stated that he heard in Shepherdstown
that you had made tIfe. apology and
Withdrawn the challenge.
Yours, with esteem,
FIRE. DORSEY.
DR.. Thomas Hammond.
N. b. The reader is requested 10
compare the statements in this letter
with those contained in Dir. MagiIl's
letter, and with No. 0.
No. 0.
Extract from letter Of Major Ham,
trdmck's 10 DR.. Thomas Hammond.
dated July 10, 1886.
"1ou wrote your note to Dir. Par.
ran at Mr.. Shepherds, and before he
left, requested him by all means not to
return without delivering il TO agree
to any weapons, and any distance Mr.
S. returned without having delivered
the note, and said that DIR. Parran had
left town !; that he had made an ar.
rangement to meet friend of doctor
P's. the next day, at two O'Clock; af.
ter dinner, we returned 10 town, ac-
companied by Mr.. Shepherd /; in ths
course Of the afternoon, Mr.. S. and
yourself called upon me at my resi-.
dence, and there Mr.. s. was positively
directed not to retain the note to doct.
Parran longer, but to search him out,
and deliver it. In the mean time many
reports were in circulation about your
being brought up TO three feet--or ri.
feS, at short Bovie kaucs,
&C."
SHEPHERDsTowN, July Is, 1886.
Dear Sir: In answer to your note of
to-day, | will state as near as ca n,
the substance OF tho conversation be-
tween doctor Bedinger and myself,
| concerning the adjustment Of the affair
between doctor Parran and yourself.
enqured if they had settled The bust.
ness, and how. He answered, that it
had been settled; that a statement of
the whole controversy had been made;
that Mr.. Shepherd had there with
drawn the challenge and that Col.
Lucas had, in behalf OF doctor Parran,
dpoiogi=ed for the attack and the man
ner eft. He did not repeat the words
of the apology.
am, respectfully, &C.,
Z. I. LEE, Jr.