The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1869-10-08
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Within the last few years Mt. Pleasan
has had almost as many bloody and ia
tai ARRAYS as her larger sister Columbia
and it now becomes ourduty to chronicle
the last one that has occurred there
Last Saturday was week ago. party
of men assembled in blacksmith shoI
in Mt. Pleasant, and becoming ccnsid-
erably disorderly, JIMMY HENDERSON,
the Town Constable, attempted to arrest
them. He failed, however, and sum-
moned several citizens to assist him.
The disorderly party consisted ofFRANK
JORDAN, WIN. TUNE, and several other
desperate men, and it was with difficult
ty that JIMMY could get the required
assistance. Finally, NJ L. STocKARD
said he would arrest one of them, and
with drawn pistol, he walked up to
JORDAN, and taking hold of him, told
him to march. JORDAN surrendered
gracefully, and the balance of the party
followed his example. After they were
placed in the guard house TUNE attempt
ed to escape by running out, but Capt.
FLETCHER BARNES, gallant Confede-
rate soldier, seized him, threw him
down and jumped on him.
Last Saturday JokI,AN and TUNE again
assembled in Mt. Pleasant, and while
they were in a grocery eating oysters,
Capt. BARNES passed by and looked in.
nell a6 Ia 70 lox
some oysters. He replied, that he did
not eat with such folks, or words to that
effect. TUNE cursed BARNES and made
at him. b. went on to his home, which
was only short distance of, and know
ing TUNE to be fighting character, he
sent to his neighbours, few steps away,
for his gun. His neighbor had borrowed
it for the purpose of hunting deer in the
barrens, and it was still loaded with
buckshot. TUNE came out of the groce-
ry, and with butcher knife in his
right hand, started for BARNEs's house.
Capt. B. stepped out on the sidewalk,
accompanied by young man named
GooDLoE, and cried out, 'clear the pave
mcnt = Everybody scattered but TUNE
and the deputy Constable, voss. JIM
MY, few days before, had been badly
jostled and bruized by FRANK JORDAN,
and went to Columbia on furlough, leav-
ing yoss in his stead. Capt. BARNES
ordered TUNE to stop, and the latter con-
tinuing to advance, the former fired, but
GooDLoE struck up his arm, and the
load went into the air. Voss then ran
up and caught TUNE by the right Shout
der, who kept advancing, apparently
right into the very jaws of death. Capt.
BARNES, to avoid hitting Voss, aimed at
Tunes left side, and fired. About half
a dozen balls entered his left arm, be-
tween the hand and the elbow, another
killedLewis Cooper, colored man, who
had come back from his hiding place
behind the corner, thinking the shoot
ing was over, and another shot wounded
another negro named Eli Imam, who
was about 200 yards distent. TUNE con-
tinued to advance, and BARNES hit him
in the head with his gun and stopped
him. Tunes arm was found to be terribly
mutilated. He is a short, heavy set
man, with a courage that knows no fear.
He is said to have been brave soldier
of the Sd Tennessee, Col. WADE's old
company, and when he was shot through
and through at Chicamauga, he remark
ed in the midst of the terrible carnage of
that dreadful battle, Boys, I'm disgraced
forever-I'm shot in the back He is
very brave, and also desperate man,
when under the influence of whiskey.
A good story is told illustrative of his
tremendous physical proves ard great
courage. FRANK JORDAN and two 9TH
ers of that ilk, came upon Tune una
wares, one night, aud jumped upon him.
He seized hold of Jordan, threw him
down, and took his pistol from him, and
after beating Frank badly, and his aides
dc camp, he remained master Of the field.
Capt Barnes is peaceable citizen and
clever gentleman, and is much grieved
because he had to shoot Tune, whom he
knew and rather liked when sober, and
does he regret the accidental
shooting of the negroes. We have re-
ceived the foregoing statement from a
trustworthy citizen of Mt. Pleasant,
whose version is little fuller than the
one published in the Nashville papers.
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