Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-06-25
EAST TENNESSER.
Another "Rebel'' Muraered-A Mere
BOY shot.

Another "Rebel'' Muraered-A Mere
Boy shot.
Correspondents Of the Union and Dispatch.
BRISTOL, June 81, 1S68.-We have en-
tertained the hope that the last hostile shot
had been fired IN East Tennessee-that the
anlmoslties engeDdered BY the war we're
dead; but il seems that there is a aset" OF
toydtists who can never be appeased until
they have Wresked their savage vengeance
upon every so-called "Rebeln Who said
aught against them during the revolution.
The incident in question exceeds, in bru-
tally and barbarism, any murder or cut
rage that has occurred 10 this country since
the cessation of hostilities.
During the latter part Of the war, two
young men, Jones and Kirk, who belonged
to no regular command, became the terror
Of Jefferson and Granger counties, both as
to horse stealing, robbing, ..etc, The Con-
tederates secuted occasionally through the
communities where they deprecated. Ac-
cordingly they captured Jones and Kirk
and shot them. 1t was never known, to a
certainty, as to who were in the scout that
put period to the depredations of these
two notorious characters bat suspicion
rested upon several, among the number
CasWell Ivy, the young man of whose trag-
ical death we write. lie, after the close Of
the war, went 70 Kausss and remained there
unmolested, until few dayssince, when ne
came to Chattanooga to meet his widowed
mother, who was to return to his adopted
State, with him. Remaining two entire
days in Chattanooga, and hearing nothing
from his mother, be came up to Granger
county, 10 where he formerly lived, some
few miles west of MorristoWn, but found
that his mother had started for Chattanoo-
ga. He had been in the community bat
few hours when a band Of armed men, six
of them, led by man named Jones, bro
ther of the one shot for thieving, ETC., sur.
rounded the house where the boy, Ivy, vas
stopping. They demanded his surrender.
He told them that he surrendered to no set
Of d--d horse-thieyes, and opened fire on
them with a navy! he readily put the
elan to fight. In few minutes they re-
turned with a States warrant, and de-
manded his surrender, stating that they
had an authority for his arrest. Suppos-
ing that they meant to take advantage Of
him, by pretending that they were acting
within the pale of the law, he told them
that he would die before he would surren-
der. Simultaneous, however, with the de-
mand for his surrender, they began TO FIRE
on him, which he returned with the spirit
of gallant youth. In a moment, howev-
er, he fell, pierced with four balls After
falling he would have avenged his murder
had not the pistol been wrested from his
hand by some women. He tainted as the
pistol was seized, but soon revived. Jones,
his murdererrand the saUage who had shot
the boy, 1--WE say boy, for he was but eigh-
teen years Of age after he had fallen to
the ground, and tauntalized the mangled
and dying youth, by telling him that he
(young IVY would never aid In shooting
another brother of his The noble boy,
with look that can only play upon the
countenance of the brave, while the blood
dripped from his pale lips, denounced |
Jones and his coWardly co-murderers as
horse-thieyes and cut-throats-thst they |
had not the frat element of true courage in |
their bosoms. He then called for his pistol |
in order that he might, even in the agonies |
death, shoot down the villains who had |
thus brought him TO premature grave,
dear mothera-a poor widowed mother, to |
grief. 5 "- 51
Young Ivy is young man of good fami- |
ly and reputation. He was gallant and |
noble soldier, while mis- murderer were |
never, so far as we know, connected with |
any command. His friends will aVenge |
his death, as we know them to be a people |
sensitive to such outrages. The masses, |
irrespective Of political sentiment con-
denim the murder as of the most cowardly |
and unproyoked character.
A MYSTERIOUS ARREsT-RADICAL cow
ARDICE, ETC.
1t is well known that large number of |
the young men who belonged to the Con- |
federate service from Washington, Greene |
and Carter counties, have not been able to
return to their original homes because of |
their connection with the Southern armies. /
The majority Of these have remained in
exile. An occasional one returns, but with |
much trepidation. Sometime siGce, young |
man by the name of Kiker, returned to |
Greene county, his old home, with the hope |
of remaining. He had been there but
short time when he learned that steps were |
being taken for his arrest, and that on the |
charge of murder He left the community |
and went to Morristwn. he had been there |
but few days, when, through the agency |
of contemplate, dirty, brajHless and petty |
little Lawyer his persecutlofsI and prooaDly |
murderers, ascertained his locality. On the |
reception of this intelligence, posse OF |
some eight or ten men, well mounted, went |
within two or three miles of MOrristown, |
under cover Of night, where they left all of |
their number but Eve, who proceeded into
town on foot They cautiously wound their
way TO the residence of the "loyal informer"
above indicated, who readily gave them the
exact locality of the young man in ques.
tion. They proceeded to the house, seized
and tied the young man, at the same time
presenting pistols in order to intimidate
the family. They then hurried him through
the suburbs of the town and were soon out
of hearing. The family was 30 confounded
by their summary action as to fail to say
anything, or to attempt communicating the
outrage to any one. Nothing has been
heard of him since that night.
ORsERVER