The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-12-07
The McCosks 81 Capt. GusIsy.
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The Mccosks 81 Capt. GusIey.
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Aorsan's Mes, - writes - le}16ws:
A correspondent OF N~ssnesn papey, In sneak
Ing Of Carsata John 4. 0ades says ait Ia son,e
safsAtactl1n ID kn0W thai we se ht last succeeded
0asta4 McCook. lie has bsss. sent North 70 h..
tried. where Il II hoped he Wtn b. HING withna.
eeaeai "t cievsy." Captain lsasiry r. oae Of ths
nsasesa and most energetic q eefs IN the Southern
army. M killing Cea. Mctsso& was perfectly hon
ofsole and ssstefty ts accordesee with the rules n
war. Was elmpls f2ts hniinses of the deed whieh h
rendered hia nasns fssssnsfs af9ne all hnnorsbi.
nad pressed csrf,ssr 'a and asses nom son,se'n "n
nights gentleman Of IfuRtsviie and Il was the facf
OF bis being 10 TINS cassiaee hfchrnahled Captain
1uHey 20 identity him. He Was travelling with his
guard. Captain Cufiey attacked the saard ami
drove them Oh, aud demanded Cru. MeCpos In
surrender, and, on his rcf,sai to do 50, he SHIT him
We was Justified in doing sn, a,s,l If we had few
more like Captain fsurlsy th e.untry wonid be r,a
NJ m1ny other Yankee SC countse wearing the stars
Of General. The object Of this aosice IL .o cali
the attention Of our Government 10 biz raptnre /;
reta'iate, we fear that Captain Gurey will never
again return n his family AUD friends In the Soth
We were infoImed by an o6icar who was con
nned IN one OF the prisons At Cincinnati, that
while Morgan was In the peighborh0od OF tha,
city, an old gentleman cana In and injured q,
General Morgan's 0ffcers s'if there wax such an
officer In his command az Captain Curieye The
0ihcer addressed replied that there was not -
"Weil,'' says tl,e old man, ~ can sIesp. hu, haa
determined, If Capt. Gurtey was 10 y6slf comma nj
neither To eat Aos sleep until bad revensrt nv,
sell IN his blood for the murder or my son. Tie
Old gentleman remained Rev moments longer,
talking over his former deeds Of va,er and the cod
service he had d9as his eanAAy during the war,
~ I'm z s ssssssss .,ai,e %! q q
presence in the 6eia. When be rose 10 depart he
remarked that he was sorry that Captain Guriey
was not with Gen. Morgan, for he had resolved Il,
wfeak MS vengeance ou him, even IL he had been
prisoner; hiit, as he was not with the command.
he suppost he would have to Kill somebody else
OF Morgan's comraaHd. When tic had rnne; d.,
Miller, Surgeon for Dick Morgan regiment asked
i the fa:kee oiierr OF the day who that. man WAS
Ignorance. "Why, sir, that Is the great Major Dan
McCook, tile father Of thc fighting McCO0ks > |
supposed everybody knew Major McCook -
"Ihen,'' says DR. Miller, ''if he goes following
too close TO Morgan he will get something he didn't
want y A few days afterwards the Cincinnati pa
pers were draped In black, and the first announce
ment that net I'll. eye, :. Melancholy Occurrence
One OF the most dreadful incidents ed will,
the unh"y raid Of the thaving Morgan IL the death
of Major Dan McCOok. Tie was killed near Bmf
hnsten Island by one Of The horse thieves, who
sha:neiessly robbed him after he had taII-n NOR
tally wOund-d."' The paper then went on To sjye
history of his life, and mentioned the singular
coincidence that he was the third of the family
VIII" had been killed during the war on the 2lst Of
July. The yonngest so', Danie' was killed at tha
hrst battle OF Manassas, on the 2lst Of July, 1861;
the second son. Robert, on the 2st Of July, 1852
and the old man, Daniel, on the 2lst Of July, 1859
Perhaps 4 was the approach Of the 2lst Of Sep
tember that made A!eek leave the battle field Of
Chickamauga In such hot haste.
From the bitterness Of ieeling expressed against
Capt Gurey at the North fear that, unless our
Government have their atfe nton rallied to his case,
he will be murdered in prison, and earnestly
hope that the Secretary Of War will not fail to do
what he can tn prevent SO foul an act of revenge
for his heroic conduct.