Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-04-17
THE MuapEREp GENERAL.

tnE mUhDEdeO GENERAL.
The treachery of Indian character
has been again verified by the assas-
sination of Gen. Candy and Commits
sioner Thomas, and the desperately
wounding Commissioner Meacham
while under the white flag of truce.
There are many crimes comitted by
the Indians that can be palliated
Through their ignorance and through
their natural wild impulses. But
the sacredness of a white flag is just
as well understood by savage as by
a civilized being. The nation is en-
ragged by this fiendish deeds and
and war to the determination is now
the cry.
Between ten and eleven O'Clock
Friday morning, the Peace Com
mission party, comprising General
Candy, A. B. Meacham, DR.. Thomas
Mr.Dyar, Riddle the interpreter and
his squaw, and Bogus Charley and
Boston Charley, went out to the
designated spot. There they met
Captain Jack, John Schonchin,
Black Jim, Shack Nasty jim, ,Ellen's
man and Hooker Jim. They had no
guns, but each carried pistol at his
belt. This however, was not much
noticed as in the previous interviews
they had, their guns were with
them. salael
They sat down in a kind Of broken
circle, and General Candy, Meachsm
and Dr.. Thomas sat together.faced
by Captain Jack and Schonchin.
Dyar stood by Jack, holding his
horse, with Hooker Jim and Shack
Nasty Jim to the left.
Meacham opened the talk, and
gave long history of what they
wanted to do for them, after which
General Candy and DIR. Thomas talk
ed for some time.
Captain jack then talked in an
apparently good, serious strain. and
when he had finished, stepped back
to the rear, near where Meacham's
horse was hitched. John Schonchin
then began to talk and while he was
speaking, Dyar snapped cap,which
missed fire, aud looking around saw
Captain Jack to his left, with his
pistol pointed at General Candy.
This was the signal for a general
massacre, and a dozen shots were
fired inside Of half a minute. Cap
tain Jack fired again on General
Candy, and the noble old gentleman
ran off to the left, but was speedily
shot down and instantly killed.
Meacham was shot at by Schonc hin
and wounded in the head. He tried
to draw his Derringer, when two In
dians ran up and knocked him down
DR.. Thomas was killed almost in
stantly, by two pistol shots in the
head. Riddle ran off,and it appears
that they did not fire at him, but
they knocked his squaw down.
Dyar, Riddle and the squaw,r returned
in safety to the camp. 4.
About one hundred yards west of
the place of meeting was found ABB.
Meacham, badly wounded,w with pis-
tol shot over his left eye. Fifty yards
further on was the body of Rev. DR..
ThOmas,lyi on his face, land strip
ped to the waist. Life was extinct
from pistol shot a in the head. The
body of Gen. Candy was stripped Of
every vestige of clothing, and lay
about one hundred yards to the
southwark, with two pistol shot
wounds in the head.
Brigadier General Edward r. S.
Candy, who was murdered by Cap
tain Jack at a peace conference in
the Lava bed district on Friday last
was one of the Oldest and most hon
ored officers in the American Army.
He was born in Kentucky in 1918,
and graduated at West Point in 1889
He entered the Mexican war as q
Lieutenant in 1S46, served with
bravery and ability until the close
of hostilities, and was promoted to q
Captain in 1851. In 1853 he became
Major,and was serving in New Mex
leo at the outbreak of the rebellion
in 1861, about which time he was
promoted. to the rank of Colonel.
His particular post Of duty at that
period was Fort Craig, which he de-
Tended against Texans, who, relying
upon his southern Eirth, calculated
upon his joining the Confederate
cause. They were disappointed,
however; Colonel Candy was true to
the flag. In March 1862, he was
called to Washington and made
Brigadier General of Volunteers, and
after serving in various corps and
armies he succeeded Banks in com
mand of the Department of Louisi-
ana and the Gulf in 1864, after
Banks disastrous campaign on the
Red River. In April, 1865, Gener
al Candy invested and captured Mo
bile, a work of no small difficulty,
although at that time the great arm
les of the Confederacy has been de-
feated and the spirit of the rebel
lion broken. General Candy came
out OF the war with an honest, we'll