The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-08-14
Types Of Rebel Chivaly.
CLAMP rERarsoN.

thief, and counterfeiter, and naturally
ioined the Rebellion. He organized
| 2 small band, and for more than year
rommitted unheard Of atrocities I'm
checked Reuben r Wood, an aged
citizen Of Clinton county, had greatly
lhcfriended him He rode mp to Woods
house, one day in September. 1861
: called him out, and coollv told him he
was going to kill him. "Oh, no -
Champ you'll not do thot! I never
done you any harm exclaimed the old
man" "But YOU carried the d
Lincoln flag at Camp Dick Robinson. .
"Whv, Champ" said Wood, IL al.
most raised you. held YOU on my
knee when you was n child"
"You're d---l Lincolnite!' said
the monster, and shot him dead
On another occasion he lashed Q
Union man by the name of Spangler
to tree, and had him beaten to death
In April, 1862, he and his band
came upon n party of neighhors col.
lected at q log raising in Fentiss
county He shot number of them
- as they attempted to escape. and too,
the rest prisoners He hade his men
hold each prisoner by the arms, and
then he deliberately ripped open their
bowels with knife!
A man by the name of Fragge had
secured his enmitv He was confined
to his bed, sick, his little child lying
beside him, and his wife sitting near
Ferguson entered the room and told
him he had come to kill him Fragge
pied for his lfe his wife entreate
: him TO spare her husband, but he
raised his pistol and gave him Sc
we're wound. Fragge again entreatel
for life, but Ferguson again raised his
pistol, and while the sick man claspel
his frightened child to his breast, he
shot him decd, His wife srpposing
both husband an child killed, nsrapn |
screaming from the house. Ferguson
! then stole the dead mans clothes, an I
even the blanket that covered his he /!
Knights, n motel East Tennessee
scout, was captured bv small PARTY
while crossing Waldan's RIDGE. They
ut first decide to hang Lin on the
spot, but finally to get the reward Of
fered for his capture, coHcl1 el t,
deliver him to the Confederate author
tiles at Knoxville lie was at once
tried and sentenced 70 he hl1r. While
, he was in Jail awiting exc 'ltiol, his
dmghtcr was a lnttcl to see him =
He preten le 70 Ne Qahln to sit M.
IN consclielcc of wolnl received |
when he was taken, al | o. colrse his
daughter had - banl down t, hnrr
what h sai H. II thes, circ natl1rns
he menace J, though 'ha sentinel $ 90
directly over him, t. whi;pe: "Ul-
der Yo1r skirt--1 coi!--tD- no 20 ~
She got "N COLL ds she term Il. hi |
it unl,r her clothes. aIltha next Law
went aga'u 10 the Jail The sentinel
refused to olmit hcr, hut the oIlcer,
: sortcnei by her entrelty to see her
father for the last time-he was to b.
hung on the next dNv--fnallv granted
her an interview of five Minutes -
The soldier stoo | 10y all the while, rs
, before, but she managed, while fran
I ticallv embracing her father, to con-
: vcv the priceless rope under ths he |
clothes. That night happened to be
dark and rainy, the scntinel5 kept IN
der shelter, AMI before morning
Knight, with three others. let himself
down from the third story and escap-
cd
Col Crawford Of East Tennessee,
one of the Vice Presidents Of the Uni.
on Convention, lately held in this city,
re ated the following incidents to the
Convention:
Last Summer three yonng men,
p brothers, named Anderson, left their
: homes in Hawkins county, and 1T
tempted to make their way INTO Ken.
tucky. They were arrested by squad
Of Confederate cavalry, on Clinch iiy.
er, about seventy-fy miles from Knox
Vile, shot and thrown into the river.
Their bodies were found tloating in
the stream fifteen miles from tleiI
own forsaken homes,
THE SCARCITY OF SALT.
In the month of January, 1858. at
: Laurel, n. C. near the Tennessee hor.
der, all the salt was seizel for listrib-
p ution by Confcleracy commissioners
+ Salt was selling at seventy to one hun
4 drcd dollars a sack Tie Connis-
sioners declared that the Tori 8 sho d
0 have none and positively refuse | to
give Union men their portion OF the
quantity to be distributed in thae vi
cinity. This palpable injustice ron5,
, ed the Union men, they assemble TO-
! gether md determined to seize theil
proportion of the salt b. force Tley
e did so, taking at Marshal, n c., what
J. they deemed to be their Just share.
Immediately afterwards, the 65th
; North Carolina regiment, m Ter co n
mmd OF Lieut., Col James Keith, wa:
ordered to Laurel to arrest the Offend.
ers.
. ARRESTS FOR SEEING SALT.
L. NJ. Allen was Colonel of the reg,
iment, but had been suspended for six
Imonts fo' crime anl drun'Ienness.-
Many o. the men engaged in the salt
seizure left their homes. Those who
p did not participate IN il became tic
sI.ferers. Among those arreste ]
were Joseph Woo |, abo 1t sixty years
OF age, Day.Sheltoh, SIXTY; Jas Shell
ton, iity, Roddy Shelton, forty. live
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