Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-15

pressed a determination to remain with dis
men until all were released. unless removed
by force. The boat was ready, with steam
up, and at length permission was given the
officers to visit their men and get them ready
TO be marched out and obligated.
The officers had already protested against
the justice of the execution of the demand
made upon them, and the MN were Informed
that they should have the beneft-if it should
prove such-of the protest.
Major Schofield administered the obliga-
ton, and received roll of the men from the
Captain of each company.
All being ready, the regulars escorted the
brigade TO the east gate of the arsenal. and 1t
marched in regular order on board the Isa-
bella. The color company carried the Ameri-
can flag. which was captured at Camp jack
son, it having been graciOusly restored to
them, and declared. by the United States au-
thoriIies at the arsenal, not contraband of
war. In the march 10 the gate the way led
in front of the quarters of German regi-
ment, aud the officers of the escort admonish-
ed the men who were louDging about the
tents to make no demonstration of ridcule,
or other inappropriate noise. which might be
construed into insult. The officers and men
all being on board the boat, the craft heavily
freighted with human beings, left her moor
ings and stemmed her way up the river.
Good order was observed on the boat, and
men. though generally silent. were by no
means dispirited. The officers felt that they
had suffered great indignity, but they like
wise were innocent of having given any cause
for such sudden reverse OF fortune. All con-
graduated themselves upon the escape from
their uncomfortable quarters at the Arsenal,
and in their half starved condition enjoyed
the anticipation of good supper, and COM
Portable lodgings.
The boat landed st the Keokuk wharf-boat,
foot of Chestnut street, about dark, and the
soldiers were received with hearty cheers
from their friends Oh shore. They marched
up Chestnut street to Fourth street, and thence
in good order to their several armories.
YESTERDAYS TRAGEDIES.
Another act in the terrible drama Of blood
that opened so fearfully on Friday. was en-
acted last evening" and six more victims were
added to the already sad list of the dead.
Two scenes of blood so close together, and so
frightful in their results, have seldom before
plunged a city into mourning. At about
half past five O'Clock in the evening, large
body of the German Home Guards entered
the city through Fifth street, from the Ar
senal. where they had been enlisted during
the day, and furnished with arms. Large
crowds collected to witIess their march, and
they passed unmolested along until they
reached Walnut, when they turned up that
street and proceeded westward. Large crowds
were On IutSo WIZ hOOtSN
and Kissed as the companies passed, and one
IN IN standing on the steps of the church fired
a revolver into the ranks. A soldier Tell
dead when two more shots were Tired from
the windows of a house near by. AT this
time the head OF the cOlHmn, which reached
far as Seventh, suddenly turned. and, lev
cling their rifles, fired down the street, and
prOmiscuOusy among the spectators, VINO
lined the p2vements. Shooting as they did,
directly towards their own rear ranks. they
killed some of their men well as those
composing the crowd. Tue shower of bull
lets was for moment terrible. and the only
wonder is that more lives were not lost. The
missiles of lead entered the windows and
perforated the doors OF private residences,
t.~ring the ceilings and throwing splinters In
every direction. The house OF Mr.. Mathews
was entered by three bullets, and Mr.. Math
ews' daughter was struck slightly by spent
bal.
On the street the scene presented as the
soldiers moved off was sad indeed. Six men
lay dead at different points, and several were
wounded and shrieking with pain upon the
pavements. The dead carts, which have be-
come familiar vehicles since the scenee OF the
last tvs days. were soon engaged IN remov-
ing the corpses from the ground. The woun-
ded were carried to the Health Office Four
of the men killed were members of the regi-
ment and two were citizens. Last night the
former had not been recognized. jerry
Switzelelan. an engineer on the river, was
passing by the door of Mr.. ii. GloVer's resi-
dence, on Seventh street, next to Walnut.
when ball struck him in the head, and scat
tered his brains over the door and walls. A
pool of blood marked the spot where he fell,
after his body had been removed. Jeremiah
Godfrey hired man of Mr.. Cozzens, County
Surveyor was working in the yard OF Mr..
Cozzens at the time of the occurrence. While
STOPPING over, in the act of fastening some
flowers to a frame, three soldiers entered the
gate, and approaching within the yard, fired
three shots into his body. Fortunately none
of them were fatal, being all flesh wounds.
The family witnessed the affair, and says that
the man had not been out of the yard, and
was unaware of the approach of his assail-
ants until stricken dewn by their bullets
Charles III. Woodward, a clerk in Pomeroy d
Benton's store, was shot in the shoulder, and
will have to have his entire arm amputated.
He was carried into the residence of Mr.. Mat
thews and kindly cared for. James f. Welsh,
living at No. 1S9, Wash street, between Four
teenth aud Fifteenth streets, was shot through
the foot
Michael Davy, residing between O'Fallon
and Cass avenue and Sixth and Seventh, re-
ceived a ball through the ankle, and amputa-
ton will be necessary. John Nelus was
wounded in the cheek. Several others were
injured slightly. The houses on the right
side of Walnut from Fifth to Seventh were
injured by bullets and the in
mates in several cases had very narrow es-
capes. At late hour in the night the bodies
of John Garvin, whose br other keeps a livery
stable on Market street, William Cody,
book pedler from New Orleans, and John
Dick, German soldier. were recognized
among the dead. Immense crowds of people
filed the streets after the occurrence, and the
whole city presented a scene of excitement
seldom witnessed.
Mayor Taylor made an address to the peo-
pie from the steps OF the Church on Fifth
and Walnut streets, exhorting them to dis
perse peacefully, and promising that they
should be fully protected from violence.
The address evidently had good effect, and
the streets became more quiet. The action
of the soldiers in retaliating upon two or
three individuals by firing recklessly among
the crowd and into houses, excited UNIVERSAL
The act was uncalled for, and
found parallel only in the similar proceed
iDgs of the day before.
THE CITY LAST EVENING,
Was much more tranquil than might have
been expected. There no disorderly
conduct on the streets, and the rain prevent
ed the assembling of any large crowds in
the public places. A picket guard was sta
toned near the Anzeiger and Democrat
offices to repel any attack that might be
mape upoh those establishments, though it is
but just to say that propbably none had been
meditated since tie failure of few reckless
and thougbtless persons on Friday evening
Besides this, sentinels were placed at con-
venient distances from each other in the
lower and upper portions of the city, and
every possible care taken to avoid a recur-
renee of violent scenes.
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reflection will compose the minds of our agi-
tated citizens in regard to the exciting af-
fairs OF the last two days, and that, at all
events, we have had the last bloodshed.