The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-08-07
Correspondence Of the Cincinnati Commercial
KENTUCKY REGULATIONS.


THIRTY MEN MURDERER AND OUTRAGED
REPORTED DEATH OF MAI. CARPENTER,
LExINGToN, KY, July %, 1867.
A gentleman who witnessed the killing Of
Major Bridgewater, gives this account Of the
affair: The Major had been assisting his
brother to move and was returning home,
when he stopped in Stanford and sat down
II, play game of checquers with a friend
While the game was progressing and Major
Bridgewater sitting in store with his back
to the door, number of mounted men en-
tered the town and approached the store
Six of the Regulators dismounted, and run
ming up to the door fred upon Bridgewater,
killing him instantly. The first shot, it is
said, was'ired by man named Sanders, who
is Captain of the band, and as Bridgewater
raised up in his chair the rest of the assas-
sins discharged their revolvers. Some thirty
shots in all were fred. eight entering his
head and ten passing through his body
One of the balls fred by the regulators hit a
man in the leg who was standing behind the
counter in the store, and another ball woun-
ded gentleman in the arm. Immediately
after firing the party mounted their horses
and rode out Of Stanford at full speed
There were eleven of them in all, and no re-
sistance was offered or attempt made to ar
rest them. They are reported to have come
from Crab Orchard, and had evidently been
watching Bridgewater, whom they attacked
some three weeks ago when he, with a party
of friends, drove them of, wounding two of
their number. Major Bridgewater leaves
wife and several small children to mourn his
loss He was personally one of the bravest
men in the State, and had they given him a
fair fight more than one Regulator would
have bit the dust; but he was shot in the
back by pack of towards who did not dare
meet him face to face.
Some idea of the lawless condition of af-
fairs in parts Of Kentucky may be inferred
from the fact that this one band has whip
ped or hung over thirty men.
Some of the most noticeable of their acts
are the following: Hanging of John Taylor
until he was almost dead; hanging of Will
liam Taylor his brother, until he was dead !;
attack on the negro population of Lebanon,
cutting stores and shooting at the terror
stricken and fleeing citizens; hanging of
William Goode, Glen Crowdus and Tom
Stevens; hanging, i'll q graveyard, of negro
named AL McRoberts; attempting to cap
ture Edward Brown, the Regulators being
driven off, one of their number killed and
two wounded; the next night they burned
Browns house in April last they hung Jer-
nv Trowbridge, at Danville, and Alfred Jen-
nings, in Washington County Thomas Car
rier was taken from the Jail and hung in
Danville, and an attempt made to hang
Lewis Halligan, but he escaped. The same
night the Regulators fired on negro, but he
got away, and they then took out Thomas
Carrier, mentioned above, and hung HIM in
sight of his agonized family. They next at
tempted to hang William Bennington. near
Perryville, but he hid away. On May 2
they took Thomas Gabeheart from the Jail
at Campbellsville and hung him. On the
3rd of june they captured John Devine, who
in attempting to escape, was shot in the back
and then hung to tree. Capt. William
Shively, for speaking against the mob, was
shot at, but escaped. The same mob drove
from their homes Gen. Fry, Capt. Goodloe
and Hon. John Harlin, and hung two negroes
in Jessamine County. Attempts were made
to seize Davis and White, citizens of Mercer
County, and ]. D. Hale was compelled to
flee for his, life. David Warren, colored
man, was killed, and Thomas Beggarly,
JOuu OTOWQuS, w IelucucdIb (Wulbc,J
and three negroes whipped. Mr.. Goode and
family, Henry Crowdus, William Wilson,
Crosby Elliott, James Crowdus, J. ]. Nash,
Hutchinson Speed, Riley Crowdus, Eddie
Brown, Thomas Beggarly, George Elliott, and
several other citizens whose names we do
not know, have been driven from their
homes.
On the 22d of June the Regulators visited
Willisburgh for the purpose of capturing
Capt ]. M. Fiddler and Col. Hays, Union
candidates; but the meeting was postponed,
and neither of the gentlemen fell into their
hands. Of the political character of the
men who have been shot, hung or maltreated
we can only say that, SO far as we know,
they were all Union men except two, who
were bad characters
1t is said that the men who hung the ne
groes at Nicholasville. and who resisted the
United State troops and shot Col. Rice, be-
longed to the same band, and that eleven
members oft live in Lexington, Ky.
We have endeavored to give faithful ac-
count of one of the bands of Regulators now
infesting Kentucky, and have only to add
that several civil officers are known to be
members of the band. Little or no informa-
ton can be got from the citizens as TO- who
the lawless men are or what they do, for to
inform is to incur the displeasure of the mob
and jeopardize life and property.
Major Carpenter, who q few days ago, was
attacked by three men in Lancaster, KY, is
reported to have been killedon Friday night,
but we cannot trace the report to any relia-
BILE source, and it is hoped to be false. A
few days ago both Bridgewater and Carpen-
ter were in this city and said they. expected
to be killed. One is already dead, and if
the other is not yet killed it is likely he will
be unless he seeks safety in fight from his
home and family.