The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-05
4 THRILLING WAR INCIDENT.
Confederate Surgeons Letter to Chicago
Tribune.)


A THRILLING WAR INCIDENT.
Confederate Surgeons Letter to Chicago
Tribune.) /
On the 18th day of June, 1868, wit.
messed duel between Captain Jones,
commanding federal scout, and Captain
Fry, commanding rebel scout, in Greene
county, East Tennessee. These two men
had been fighting each other for six
months, with the fortunes of battle in
favor of one and then the other. Their
commands were camped on either side of
Lick creek, large and sluggish stream,
too deep to ford and too shallow for &
ferry boat; but there bridge spann4d
the stream for the convenience of the
travelling public. Each Of them guarded
this bridge, that communication
should 90 neither north. nor south, as
the railroad track had been broken up
months before. After fighting each 9th.
er for several months, and contesting the
point as to which should hold the bridge,
they agreed to fight duel, the conqueror
to hold the bridge unlisputed for the
time being. Jones gave the challenge
and Fry accepted. The terms
were that they: should fight
with navy pistols at twenty yards
apart, deliberately walking toward each
other aid firing until the last chamber of
their pistols was discharged, unless one
or the other fell before all the other dis
charges were made. They chose their
seconds, and agreed upon rebel surgeon
las he was the only one in either com.
mandy to attend them in case Of danger.
Jones was certainly fine looking fellow,
with light hair and blue eyes, five feet
ten inches in height, looking every inch
the military chieftain. He was man
that soldiers would admire and ladies re-
gard with admiration. I never saw
man more cool, determined and heroic
unocr such circumstances. l have read
Of the deeds Of chivalry and knight.er.
rantry in the middle ages, and of brave
men embalmed in poesy; but when saw
this man Jones come to the duelists'
scratch, fighting, not for real or supposed
wrongs to himself, but as he honestly
thought, for his country and the glory of
the flag, could not help admiring the
man, Notwithstanding he fought for the
freedom Of the negro, which was opposed
to. Fry was man full six feet high,
slender, with long. wavy, curling hair, Jet
black eyes, wearing a SLOUGH hat and
gray suit, and looking rather the demon
than the man. There was nothing fe-
rocious about him; but he had that
self:suffcient nonchalance that
said, II will kill you.' Without doubt
he was brave, cool and collected, and al
though suffering from a terrible flesh
wound in his left arm, received a week
before, he manifested 70 symptoms of
distress, but seemed ready for the. fight.
The ground was stepped off by the Sec
onds, pistols loaded and exchanged,
and the principals brought face to face.
l shall never forget that meeting. Jones,
in his military, boyish mood, as they
shook hands, remarked that
soldier braves d-ath for fanciful wreath.
When in glory's romantic career.
Fry caught up the rest of the sentence
and answered by saying:
Yet he bends DER the Toe when in hattie laid
And batthes every wound with tear.
They turned around and walked back
to the point designated. Jones second
said: Zone two three--fire - They
had the word Fire." and he slowly
turned at the word "One'' and instantly
fired. Neither was hurt. They cooked
their pistols and deliberately walked to.
ward each other. firing as they went. At
the fifth shot Jones threw up his right
hand, and firing his pistol in the air, sank
down. Fry was in the act of firing his
last shot, but, seeing Jones fall, silently
lowered his pistol, dropped it to the
ground. and sprang to Jones' side, taking
his head in his lap as he sat down, and
asked him if he was hurt. I discovered
that Jones was shot through the stomach.
the bullet glancins around that region
and coming out to the left of the
spinal column; beside, he had re-
ceived three other frightful flesh
wounds in other portions of his body. I
dressed his kwounds and gave him such
stimulants as I had. He afterward got
we'll. Fry received three wounds - one
breaking his left arm, one in the leg and
the other in the right side. After months
Of suffering he got we'll. Neither of them
asked for a discharge, but both resumed
:helr places as soon as they recovered, land
they fought the war out to the bitter end,
and to-day are partners in wholesale
grocery business down south, doing
good business ard verifying the sentiment
of Byron that "A soldier braves DEATH"
&C.
Prot. Isald~vin's Explanation of Sptr-
ftual and lsopc.Tying Mysteries.
Leavenworth Times.
Professor Baldwin has told all about all
the spiritual mysteries, including that Of
Katie King. At an exhibition he turned
water into wine by simply turning it
from pitcher into glass. This was
done with chemicals. Then the pillory