The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-07-13
Champ FerF.ssn, the Tennessee
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NASHVILLE Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.
1t will be recollected that about six weeks
ago the noted guerrilla, Champ Ferguson,
was captured at his house, and brought to
Nashville. He is tall, muscular, brawny,
sinister-looking man, with piercing, rowing,
dark eye, il inclined to be staggering in his
manner, and without showing in his face any
marks Of high intelligence, impresses the be-
holder as bold, determined, dangerous man,
possessed Of strong native intellect. His
atrocities have been almost countless, and
the blood -thirstiness of his murders are
enough to make one shudder. He is known
to have boosted, just before the occupation OF
Knoxville by the Union forces, Of having
killed ninety Lincolnites, as he termed
all loyalists, and Dragged that he was going to
Saltville, Virginia, to FIJI up the number TO
one hundred. It is well known that he full
filed his threat at that point by brutally muir
dering three men in one of the hospitals
there. He appears to have felt himself COM
missioned by God or the devil to take the
lives of loyal men, and in perpetrating his
barbarities was almost always present In per
son, generally giving with his own hand, by
pistol or bowie knife, the fatal blow which
ended his victim misery. One of the spe-
cifcations against him is for torturing to
In about two weeks, or as soon as the Court
and witnesses can be got together, Champ
Ferguson is to be tried by court martial.
Testimony by deposition will be taken OF
officers now in the North, relative to the cold
blooded and inhuman murders committed by
him at Saltvile 1t is expected that FL. C..
Blackman, AID United States infantry, will be
the Judge Advocate. The accused is en-
ployed in writing out history of his life for
publication.
The following is the Indictment on which
the wretch is to be tried, under charges OF
wholesale murders:
ain this, that he, Champ Ferguson, leader
of band of outlaws and robbers, did wilfully,
deliberately, and with premedtated malice,
kill and murder
"Reuben Woods, a loyal citizen, at Albany,
Clinton county, Kentucky, during the winter
of 1862.
William Frogg, soon after the battle of
Mill Spring, in the same county, during the
VIM. Johnson and Lewis Purie, in April
or May, 1862.
elisha kozier, in the spring Of 1862.
g. james Zschery. loyal magistrate, in
Fentress county, Tennessee, during May,
1862
Alexander Hough, in Fentress county,
Tennessee, in the spring of 1862.
"Joseph Beck in the summer of 1862.
"Dr. William McGlasson, near Barksville,
Kentucky, during November, 1862.
9 Elam middleton, in Adair county, Ken.
lucky, on January lst, 1868.
g Peter Zachery, in Russell county, Ken
lucky, during January, 1868.
"Allen Zachery. at Croscus Creek, in or
near Russell county, Kentucky, during Janu-
airy, 1868.
John Williams, David Delk and John
Crabtree, in Fentress county, Tennessee,
while prisoners, murdered by torture.
VIM Tabor, near Albany, Clinton county,
Kentucky, during the fall of 1852
:. Lieut.. Smith, of Kentucky regiment, a
wounded Federal officer, while in hospital at
LSaltville, Virginia.
Two colored soldiers, names unknown"
This sickening list is copied from the official
records. and each case is garnished with the
names of the witnesses by whom the Govern
ment expects to prove its charges.