The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-10-25
AN. INTERESTING REMINISgENCE.
The Young Lady Who Caused Trouble
} Between. Lincoln and Shields-NoW
the Wife of a Distinguished States
man: ieFt"'''" ~ - S'''h' - y
Ea,, he s.. CHARLES Il;aie.l dbiinn,o,. II su

4g was SonSHACt0 apu!!4y onS } tE@A CtC1o q
that the writer, then a small boy, living
in little 'village lon the line Of the old
State road running from st. Louis to In
dianapolis, met one morning, as he was
going to market, one of the ocolofed boys
who had been "a honse-servantI Of his
father in the State -of-Alabama, seated
upon q .frst;class .carriage.,o,Iq asked
he sag }o@ S9 It'd dS aheTs Was song
tor He replied :f"'tF From Springfield.
sir, and T am! taking one Of TWO gentle
men down to Bloody Island to 'ight:" "
|, ssBlooay Island. Is nov now 4 khnd%n d%Sn Is East
st. Louis, and 'fiom 1920 till l8447, under
the first Constitution of Illinois, there
were, perhaps not elessI than 100 duels
fought thereon. It. turned outrt rthatths
gentlemen who were to ,slaqgther one
another upon this bloody field were none
less than Abraham Lincoln, of .""Black
-Hdwk'' war fame, and the then Captain,
Paddy Shields, who had seen service ID
the British, Army And here let me Say
that.it' was because, they stopped FOR
breakfast jati our little,!vilfags.thae per-
tsps Lincoln uwas spared and SAVED TO
make for himself such grand and glo-
'rious name througheutthe world as he
afterward did, and that Shields became, a
true and honored soldier, not only ins the,
Mexican, but in the war to preserve the
Union, ffoftll tie Circuit Court was then in,
session fof that c0unty, and in ,atten-
dance were. some 6iff the leading lawyers
|of the, district, amohgiMhonf were lin
| colns .andS Shields lpersohali and political
friends, and ,as, soon ,asz it wass'noisetif
absut,7fas bit. ;,was q. Immediately ltafte:s.
break kfastw7otthat they had gone to ssBloods
Island" to tight, then # ,Was,that Stephen.
A. Douglas 88who 8h s was VSaS at TIE time Prose
cutting Attorney offop ogr SdistricctM1R. ",
English, our member of Assembly; and
A. VIZ Cavarlyiour Senator, all Three Of
whem were, warm politics, ~ friends Of
Capt. .Shields; Colonel john lHafdin;
afterward killed cat Buena1 Vista; and,
Colonel Edwin D. Baker, killed, ,ato Balls
Bluff, friends Of Lincoln, started ,in>hot
pursuit to overtake the duelists. i, In hix
they did not succeed Until they, reached
background upon which the fight was tc
take place. .n''h' sG!tlef Z 70 H'"' :
Upon their arrival they found both
Lincoln and Shields ready for combat.
They soon sncceededih acihgS6ields
swithdraw.. the Hhahengerfor Eve min
Eutes;,in order that Lincoln might make
Fan explanation, and, shouldlthis. be xsatie-
t'factory to Shields, he iShieldsA q should
! not in future attempt to find out or dis
cover who might have, been the, author CT
| the newspaper article from which the
trouble arose AS 'so6n nas Captain
Shields Withdrew his challenge MI. EEir-'
coin at once assured shinn, efishls hontsr
t,ass "a man, d, that, hehhad neuer seen or
heard of the, article in, question till he
read, the same in the mornings paper,r
and that he was il no, sense, responsible.
/ for the same, but had, simply espoused
the authorship of It Id order "a. protect
| the good name of d most Iestimable yourg
girl in Springfeldi This settled What
might have terminatadin q bloody affair."
The would-be' combatants1 shuuk hands
and were ,afterward good; friends But
for years the question was who wrote the
article /? ;!t is nov an, open secret. in
0PtlHne 0PH3 III, ,,cJosu- .::,iHg suo.ti.isi..
I It seems that q Miss Jayne, whoIhad
recently graduated from Monticello Sens.
mary, ala was quite a belle at the capi-
/ tai" had three young lawyers as Her az
nirers!F Mr. Lincoln was 965nle and Cap
I tain Shields was another, and she rhai
| written the article whichethei Irish soldier
thonght was arseaection upon, himself,
|. for. he, be it known, was a very, :yaIrl
man, and considered himself handsome.
Neither Shields nor Lincoln married .ths
girl, but she became the loving and hon.
ored wife of Lyman Trumbull.