Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-06-03
SUE MUNDY.

Nearly every pleasant day pedestrians on oul
principal avenue pass a dark-eyed brunette, Of
medium size, q plump figure, and richly dressed.
In the early Spring Of 1861 Sue Kiterage, lovely
girl, just returned from boarding school, lived up.
on her fathers plantation in one Of the rural dis.
trics of Kentucky that hung in balance, uncertain
whether to risk its fate with the new "Confederacy
or hang back. Sue was II, frequent visitor al
the adjoining plantation Of Mr.. Mundy, an old
gentleman whose wife and son, a young man, com.
posed happy family.
One day company Of Union cavalry rode down
upon the place, plundered, the premises, carried
off the valuables, burned the residence, and finally
slaughtered the parents, who we're defending thei,
own fre-side, laying waste the country in their
track, and leaving young Mundy and Sue orphans
indeed. Young Mundy was at last aroused, and
while being carried off prisoner no word escaped
his lips but "Sue." When asked bis name he re.
peated Sue, - probably the effects of disordered
brain. His linen being examined, the indeGble
name of "Mundy" was found, and ever after he
was known as "Sue Mundy,' the constant terror
of Union citizens and soldiers in that section.
After being released on parole, he Immediately
returned and inferred the charred remains of his
own parents, as we'll as the body of Mr.. X. TAX
ing solemn and fearful oath ofvengeance, and &C
companied by Sue, who was now without home Of
friends in this wild world, he started for neigh
boring camp of bushwhackers or guerillas, where
he was received with open arms, and was soon pro
NOTED to the Office of commander Of the force
while Sue, disguised and passing by the name o.
'Kit''-an abbreviation of Kiterage- proved in
valuable as spy, fearless rider, and ofundoubteo
bravery. Kit, after serving nearly two years as SPY
and general planner for the band, found her health
failing. Disguised and armed with the highest
testimonials, she succeeded in procuring position
on the staff of Gen. Cleburne, the hardest fighting
Irishman in the rebel army.
This position she held, doing her duty like 6
man, until the battle of Franklin, July IL, 1864
in which Pat Cleburne was killed. Returning tt
her youthful hero and his band, she again revelee
in the carnival of blood, and though her evil spirit
was willing, her flesh was weak, and Kit was agar
transferred to duty at Andersonville. Prisoner
who have shared the hospitality Of that celebrated
camp will perhaps remember short, stout, mus
cular young lieutenant with flashing black eyes
face as smooth as maiden's and cruel as though
fend incarnatc lurked within. This was SUI
Kiterage, the amiable young boarding school Miss
the cheerful companion the once wealthy heiress
the beautiful maiden and firm friend of yount
Mundy, whose life to her was dearer than her own
Sue Mundy and part of his band were captured
and tried by a court martial Kit was present
during the whole trial, and used her great inAu
ence but of no avail Sue Mundy was convicted
and hung, at Louisville, Ky., in March, 1865
The flowing hair still hung about his shoulders
and when his youthful corpse was taken down ant
laid away in his narrow bed, the bleeding and bro
ken heart of Sue Kiterage was buried with it; ane
now, wanderer on the face Of the earth, home
less and friendess, she lives without hope OF mer
cy, forsaken and dshonored, and cast away.