The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-01-02
DEAD.

henCacKy 9uerrllla, anu VINO was IOr years
terror to all good people, died in Louis
vile last week. Speaking of his deeds of
blood, and his kinsmen, the C0uvier-Jouyrnal
says:
Captain Edward Terrell was only twenty
three years of age. He was a Kentuckian
| by birth, and was brought up by his uncle,
! Thomas Baker, who lived at Manton, an an
| tiquated village on the line of Marion and
| Washing gton counties, five miles from LOrettO
depot, on the Labanon branch of the Louis
! vile and Nashville railroad His uncle sent
| him to the village school at Manton, where
! he received all the education he ever had
/ He was not large man, but on the con-
/ trary, rather slight in figure, and his ex-
| ploits were all accomplished with the minia-
ture arsenal of revoIvers he invariably car
ried swung to him, which he was always
ready to use, it mattering little who stood
| in his way.
TerrelTs uncle, Mr.. Baker, well-known
and very higly esteemed citizen of Marion
county, was murdered just previous to the
war by two Of his negroes, both of whom
were subsequently, arrested, tried, convicted
and hung near Springfield, Kentucky.
On the breaking out of the war, he en-
| listed IN the Dixie Guards, First Kentucky
| (Confederate) regiment, in Daviess county,
and subsequently joined John Morgan's
command After Bragg's memorable raid
into Kentucky, he deserted from the Confed-
crates, and was by General Palmer or Gen
eraI Boyle empowered to raise company of
Federal scouts, Of which he was to be cap
tain. He raised his company in Shelby and
Spencer counties, and started out with
orders to drive all guerrillas from the State.
Soon, however, as we'll as becoming the ter
ror of Marion, One-armed Berry and others,
he became the terror of the entire popula-
tiGu of Washington, Marion, Shelby and
Anderson counties, shooting down and plum
dering indiscriminately wherever his lawless
horsemen rode.
His first appearance as guerrilla was
near Springfield, where he was captured by
an Independent company Of men under
Captain John Smith, known among the
soldiers as Company c" and indirectly
connected with Col Wooford's command.
Terrell and his men were lodged in the
Springfield JAIL where they were kept for
several days. The fact that they were
q" Union men being by that time clearly es-
tablshed they were released.
Nearly always under the influence Of IL
quor, Terrell stopped at nothing. He once
openly boasted of numbering the brother of
a girl he was courting, because he wanted a
pair of boots the poor fellow had. Many
VIII DEduhS are IGidG6O VI L1In OlA OiAC
occasion it is said he came upon negro
church at Simpsonville, and, quickly hust-
ling out the congregation, made them form
a large circle, inside of which he placed the
old colored parson and compelled him to
dance, while the guerrillas looked on and
yelled with delight at the ridiculous antics Of
the aged preacher.
just previous to the close of the war, he
and a squad of his men entered Louisville
and created quite an excitement over lawless
proceedings At the United States Hotel
he deliberately rode through the saloon,
| fiourishihg pistol, and creating a general
stampede of parties about the bar.
| Terrell first made himself famous in an
engagement with the noted guerrilla Marion,
whom he shot and killed in the encontre
1t was at this time that he took from the
! finger Of Marion the heavy gold ring which
! he wore up to the time of his death and
| then bequeathed to his brother He styled
| himself the guerrilla hunter, his legitimate
! business being the determination of all the
/ irregular bodies of fighting men which had
overrun some Of the counties of Kentucky
In returning from a ride through Spencer
| and Nelson Counties Terrell and his men
stopped at the blacksmith shop of Ennis.
Oughten, and one of the guerrillas becoming
! involved in quarrel with Oughten,
Terrell drew revolver and coolly shot the
! blacksmith dead.
One of the murders with which Terrell
| is charged is that of the Illinois cattle
trader, johnson, who went from Frankfort
into Anderson county to buy stock carrying
along a large amount of money. After pass
| ing through Anderson county johnson went
! into Nelson, and when near Bloomfield he
was arrested by Terrell and another guer-
rilla named Harry Thompson. They took
him to Shelbyviile, where he remained for
| a day or two, no one knowing whether he
was prisoner or one of Terreus men.
| johnson was last seen alive about dusk one
day, walking in the direction of the Mount
| Eden turnpike, toward Clear creek bridge.
| Two weeks afterward his dead body was
found in the creek, his money gone, large
rock tied to his neck, and his pockets filled
with stones. A bullet hole In the back Of
his head showed that he had been murdered
before being thrown into the water.
Both Terrell and Thompson were soon af-
ter arrested and tried for the murder of
johnson, but the jury hung and they were
brought to the Jail in this city for safe
keeping, there being not only danger of
rescue, but of lynching, in Shelby county.
After remaining in jail here short time,
the prisoners were taken to Spencer county
for trial on an Indictment for the murder of
Ennis Oughten, the blacksmith and at Tay
lorsville they broke jail and escaped 1t
was hoped Terrell would leave the country,
as 10 one was anxious to shed his blood
but it seems he chose, for personal reasons,
to do otherwise, and began perambulating
Shelby and the adjacent counties, doing
pretty much as he pleased, and none dared
modest or make him afraid. He sent word,
time and again, that he intended calling, on
his friends in shelby, but everybody took
this as a joke.
One day in the latter part of May, how
ever, Terrell and one of his men named
John Baker dashed into Shelbyville between
sundown and dark and reined up in front Of
Armstrong; hotel, calling for boy to hold
their horses until they could get a drink