The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-07-06

no resistance. The square on which Mrs.
WIS house is situated (the house and
grounds occupy the square) was surround
ed Immediately; officers of the staff being
aroused by the couriers, of whom there were
three or four at the front gate, rushed out
and were captured one by one. Gen. Nor
gan attempted to escape through the garden;
finding exit in that direction cut of, he
concealed himself among some grape vines.
He had 70 weapon at all, Captain Rogers
having one of his pistols, Mr.. Johnson, A.
A. G.'s clerk, the other. While the officers
of his staff and couriers were together un-
der guard within twenty yards of his place
of concealment, he necessarily heard the
questions asked them and the threats made
against them.
The questions were as to his whereabouts
the threats to make them tell his place of
concealement. Sesing that there was no
hope of successful concealment, he came
out and surrendered to Capt. Wilcox, Ces
G, 18th Tennessee Cavalry. He had al
ready both of Gen. Ms pistols in his pos
session. This Captain sat on his horse (he
and fifteen or twenty others had ridden in
TO the garden, having broken down the
plank fence to get in) and conversed with
the General and US for some time-about
ten or t1enty minutes-he then rode off.
In few minutes after he left a man rode
up and presented his gun at Gen. Margan;
the General said: For Gods sake don't
shoot mel am prisoner" The gun was
fred aud the General fell The muzze of
the gun "a Colts army rihe) was within
two feet of Morgan's breast when it was
discharged; his clothing and his body were
blackened with powder. This man then
| dismounted and threw the Generals body
across his horse, in front of the saddle, and
rode about town shouting "Here's your
horse thief"
When Gen. Gillem gave US permission to
go and attend to Gen. M body, we found
| it lying in the road. about one mile from the
| place where it had been shot. It was so
covered with mud that we could scarcely
recognize it. The ball struck the centre of
the breast, about three or four inches be-
low it's junction with the neck, and came
out behind the left hip bone.
He met his death as he met his foes a
thousand times As1re; there was no shrink
ing-pOt Gu nerve-though he
~. murder in Iwny feind's eye.
.slsg be proud of John
Nor -
fearless death. And in the Gland Of sun
and flowers" long will his deeds be the
theme of song aud story. This man who
shot him was named Campbell, of Co. G.
18th Tennessee cavalry. He was promot-
ed to a Lieutenancy for his bravery on this
occasion.
At Knoxville the staff officers were locked
up iSirOn cages, in ia ,se windows
had neither glass nor sasn. They had
neither change of clothing, nor overcOats.
nor blankets. These had all been taken
from them. They were permitted to go
into the prison yard in the day time. and
they had dead line there.
We found at Knoxville several officers
and men of Morgan's command, who had
been taken two weeks before US. They
told US that the soldiers who captured them
said that they had orders not to take Gen.
Morgan alive.
After this it was rumored that the sol
diers of Gen. Morgau's command refused
to take as prisoners of war men belonging
to the 18th Tennessee cavalry. Gen. Gil
lem sent a communication, under flag of
truce, to Gen. Breckenridge on this subject,
complaining that some members of the 18th
had been killed, and stating that he sup
posed it was done in retaliation for the ere
ported" murder of Gen. Morgan. He stated
that General Morgan had been killed in fair
fight, and inclosed a copy of note from
Captain Rogers, of Gen. Morgan's staff, in
answer to one from him inquiring into the
circumstances Of Gen. Morgan's DEATH
(Rogers was then a prisoner in Gen. Gil
lem's hands.)
At the bottom Of this note was written,
ga true copy. A. C. Gillem, Brig, General -
When Gen. Breckinridge afterward attack
ed and routed Gen. Gilem, we captured his
headquarters desk and private papers,
among which was the original note Of Cap
tain Rogers, altered and amended to read as
the copy General GiIlem sent to Gen. B o.,
and very different from the said copy
These papers are still in existence.
A lab2riug man in Boston, Mass, by
mistake, drank glass full of solution Of
potash, used in tempering steel. Before he
could be made to vomit, his entire bod Y
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