Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-01-15
Frsa tas Tazs5 Deuocrat
DEATH o. CAPTAIN TUEGT ..
GIBSON.


GIBSON.
The Calumet day before yester.
day brought down the liEeless re.
mains Of 8 chivalrous gentleman,
who, five short days ago. walked
the earth IL aesh and blood, as
Captain Tully s. Gibson. He was
shot down within the threshold
Of his own door By Federal SOL
diers last Tuesday morning. Il
had been apprehended By the
friends Of Captain Gibson that
steps would be taken by the pow.
ers that be, to arrest him for hav-
ing been instrumental in quelling
the late dlsgraceful riot Of Com
basil and his ~myrmidoms in Sun
flower county, but it is said that
he had received assurances that
he should not be molested, and he
was consequently not expecting
an attack, when a squad Of sol.
diers headed by Gainey, thedeputy
Sheriff Of SunHower county, rode
up to his house.
Captain Gibson seeing that he
was in imminent danger placed
his sister and slster.iu-l law in q
back room, while he remained
with his wife, who refused to
leave his side, in the front apart.
ment to face his destiny,-what.
ever it might be. GGney called
for him to come out and he went
to the door with his Navy repeat
er in his hand and when he open
ed it the Deputy drew up his gun
to FIRE. But quick indeed must
have been the man who pulled q
sooner trigger than Tully Gibson.
In one more deeting moment the
Deputy Sheriff Of Sunaower was
lying suplnely upon his back,
hugging the delusive phantom Of
hope, with the oriice Of q Navy
repeater ball so near the butt end
Of his heart, that in all human
probability he is at this present
writing as dead as Tully Gibson.
When the Deputy fell, Capt.
Gibson shot the two soldiers who
were at the door with him, through
the body before they could pre-
sent their pieces. In the mean
time the other soldiers who we're
stationed Of the gate fred q volley
upon him and one ball striking
him in the head, the brave aud
noble Gibson was no more.
1t is reported to US from the
most reliable sources that the sol.
diers dragged him about BY the
heels after life was extinct-rob-
bed him Of his pocket book and
pistol and when demonstrated
with by the ladies', reviled and in.
suited them in the most oppro.
brious epithets. We have given
a plain and unembelished state.
mcnt Of this melancholy affair,
as it was detailed to US by parties
whose words are unimpeachable
and we leave that statement to
speak for itself without a single
comment. The deceased was
buried in the Yazoo City grave
yard day before Yesterday morn.
ing at ten o'clock. and his obse.
quies were attended by a la.ge
number Of citizens.
Tully S. Gibson was widely
known as Capt. of the Sunaower
Guards, to which position he sue.
ceeded Governor Humphreys its
original organizer when promoted
to the command of the Regiment.
He was naturally of a somewhat
reserved and moody temper. but
since the death of his first wife
and his little son BY q steamboat
disaster in '6j lie has been more
than usually so. He did not seek
for popularity, or for many friends
but when he once gave to q man
the good right hand Of fellow
ship, and took him to his heart as
q friend, the man might swear,
that for ever after, Tully Gibson
would be as true to him as Damon
was to Pythias, or Jonathan was
to Saul. And we'll was he by
character, and by disposition cal
culated to be true and slaunch,
and steadfast in the hour of ex.
peril-for il along the
banks Of the red tide of war, there
lie the bleaching bones Of any
bold,'' who knew not
what fear meant-Tully S. Gibson
was his equal and his peer.
He Is dead-but the senseIess
0narles of puerile puppies can
never rob his noble character ola
attribute. He is gone
but the puny darts Of pigmy scrib-
blers who feared him when alive,
only 10 revile him when dead, will
fall harmless from the bright disk
Of his unsullied escutcheon as pa
per pellets from a Spartan's shield.