American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1875-04-10
ADUEL lat FOUR FEET.
From the Now Orleans Bulletin. I

From the New Orleans Bulletin.1
In 1887 Col. Duvall, n Candidate
for the Senate in one the Upper
became Involved ina personal affair
with young Cunningham OF the ia
nous fighting Cunningham family
Of South Carolina. Cunnin CHAM
was not tweuty-One. He was
small handsome youth, with long
fiaXen hair, bright blue eyes, and
very amiable gentle manners, bat
OF most dauntlcss determination
and coui courage.
Cunningham had challenged Du-
walt who had fought before, and Was
regarded as an adept i'll the dueilo.
Duvait, in u spirit which was con
sideied as bordering on braggado-
clio, accel,te, the challenge bus pre-
scribed the term, that they should
T; fight W til pistols tour feet oil. He
evidently mi>touK his man. If he
Imagined that such terms would he
rejected by Cunning ham. The
pan ties NET opposite NlckSbnrg.
An immense cOucUurSe assembled
to witness the affair. the OoyISh
Cunningham excited universal sym
p.Iny, mingled with pity aud admir-
alton, when ne appeared on the
ii. ia. lie iOuked Younger and mos e
OoyI>h han he real y WIS.
There was IA serious design on
the part of the spectacle. - utter
irre and prevent the fight "ei ,eem
I. tu.I grown man and Il mere boy.
But Cunningham and friends by
their determined conduct, y event
ed all such Interference. The par
ties were soon stationed at ta.ls
pIacrs, Just four feet apart by exact
Intasurement. Cunntn giiain fixed
his eye upon his antagonist with
that p.cneiariy gentle smile C'tarac-
teri,lic OF him. DuvalI, thouG ii
doubtless brave man, could nos
but feel and manifest nervousness
Oh the OCCASION, as he had piescri
bed the perilous aud desperate
terms on which the combat was tC
be determined. "Atfention' was
called, aud the parties declaring
given, and both fired al. the WORD
"One," Davall fell, shot through hs
heart. Cunningham stood cooily
in his place uUscathed. AN iuvoi
uutary ''hurrah" arose from tht
) spect. tors ut the issue of an atfaiI
which bad enlisted their feelings S,
warmly i'll behalf OF this your {
! David Of this combat.
Cunningham Was an amlabie
a | and r.trn,G he
came Invol, ed Ia q arrels. But ol
Ole occasion displayed his charac
teIistic determination liz II manner
: that gave great satisfaction To th,
r lookers-ou. He was the second of s.;
: young lawyer of New Orleans, wh'
I went out to give satisfaction TO All
i other young lawyer VIII" had beer
: insaited b, his ''learned brother
: In order to ObtsIi the use Of til,
t dneliing pistols of a certain noto
} rious sO-calied fighting man in thu
city, who had "A great tas e for sucl
r affairs, il Was necessary to take tn,
: Boba,ili with his pistols as sor
of Supernumerary secnnd. Acc,n
! dinghy Cu.ningham, with his prin
cipal aud Bobadil aud his ''sav
z handles proceeded to the Metairi
- Course, where the meeting WAS i'll
t ranged.
"A The parties were stationed, tn
= word was given and they fire
= without effecr. A pariey WAS helo
n and the challenging party declarin
a themselves satisfied, Cunningham
: of course for his friend acqui-sce'
l. in The determination of The affair
e Thereupon, Bobadil who had bee
J. much disappointed at the bloodleS
J. result, declared that his piSt"'
!, never before missed; that this Wa
y niece chiiPs play, and that whe
y parties did take trouble to come on
:, 20 light, he liked to see sometime
II done.
< WELL" responded Cunningham
Z '.if you are SO anxious 10 Sre ii HIT
= bloo'i She,i viii take great pleasu'
in accom- nod itiiI. you aud IN oi
der t. hastily y.u for she'idlng
little of my blood. | take he llbe
to say that consider you d cowar
and blackguard.'
Buba.til remarked that he didn
come there to fight himself, but
See others fight, and sunk from tn
J. field. He never again "went out.
. il her a> principal or second. Poo
y Cunningham died in New OrleaI
Il in 1854, OF c"nSnmp lop-