Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-17
WHO KILLED MORGAN.
Andrew Campbell, Of Bloomington,
Ind, Says Twas He-His Ac
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John Morgan in the Enquirer Q
March 29th, was reminded of hay
! ing been introduced to man her
by the name of Campbell, as tn
man who had shot Morgan, SOM
months ago, and at once made in
ouiries as to his whereabouts, TO,
the purpose of an interview. /
was learned that he was still living
in the city, engaged as day la
borer on such jobs as he could fine
in these scarce times, and the gen,
tleman himself was pointed out az
he passed along the street, followed
by his little son. He is a man Of
quiet demeanor and progressing
appearance, with nothing of the
rufiian in his makeup, and one
would scarcely imagine him a man
of extraordinary nerve from a casual
observation.
To the question by the Enquirer
man as to whether he was Andrew
Campbell, he returned an afirma-
tive answer. ~
care you the man who killed
Gen. John Morgan in Tennessee ?"
eyes sir. with a smile.
"Did you see the account of the
account of the affair in the En-
quirer of few days ago."
eyes, L have the paper in my
pocket. Major MILKY brought it
to me. He first told me about it,
and l could not imagine who had
written the account-at first sup-
posing it was Lieut.. W, but
when he brought me the paper 1
saw it was DR.. Downey.''
You are acquainted with him,
then ?"
"Oh, yes; he was our surgeon;
but l don't see how he could re-
member the circumstances so we'll
for so long time. 1t must be nine
years since l told him the particu-
lars"
ale gives correct account, does
he ?"
"Well, some things he remembers
rightly, but he is mistaken about
several things, Morgan had on no
coat at all when he was shot. He
had on nothing but pair of COM
mon blue soldier pants and a spotted
calico shirt. And l did not tell DR..
Downey that the proprietor of the
house from which Morgan emerged
informed me that it was Morgan l
had shot. 1t was a citizen in the
street that told me. l had shot
Dick Morgan's horse from under
him just before the occurrence, as
he was attempting to escape from
the same house, and he jumped
over into a cornfeld on the opposite
side of the road and got away.
Some little warning had been given
by some shots fired ut persons at
tempting to run by our troops as we
entered the town, and l suppose
Dick had been quicker than the
General and succeeded in getting
his horse. At least after | had shot
Dicks horse l sawa man running to-
ward the fence dividing Mrs. Will
Jams garden from another field of
corn and commanded him to halt. AS
ne continued running 1 fired, but
missed him. l then brought my
gun up again and fired a second
time, when he fell in his tracks.
He was not riddled with bullets, as
has been stated by some there was
but one hole in him, and that passed
through his heart. The surgeon
showed it to me after he was
brought back to Mrs. Williams
house and stripped, the surgeon not
knowing that 1 had fred the shot.
The way we came to make the raid
It that time, news had been
to our camp-Gen. Gillem's
,ommand-tbat Morgan was about
hat place with some of his COM
nand, and was making his boasts
hat he was going to gobble Us up.
We started about eleven o'clock at
light and got there about daylight
guess our captain knew that
Morgan was at Mrs. Williams, as
10 took us directly to the house,
While the other troops were posted
It other points"
"Was Morgan armed 2"
" Yes, he had two splendid PTS
OILS, which had been presented to
General Hardee by Colonel Colt at
me time, and afterward to General
Iorgan by General Hardee-they
ad these facts engraved on them.
Iefore he left the house he gave
ne of them to his Adjutant Gen
raj and hid the other under a cab
age in the garden. Mrs. Williams
aw him place it there, and after t
ard got it and gave it to General {
Iillem. His Adjutant General
I'D me that after they found they c
ere surrounded, he tried to get s
Iorgan to surrender, but that he a
Fused, saying that he had one t
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