The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-10-13

picked up sIl the horses and an otlcer
or tro les. time than il requires TO
tell the story.
Morgan was wakened By the shooting
and trampine. He got on his brescnes,
boots and hat. and in his shirts sleeves
r,volver in hand. and ran down the
long shopping ground. on the east front
Of the house. In the northeast corner
vasagrape-arbor. As Morgan stopped
To PASS under this in order TO reach ths
fence he was discovered by Andy Camp
5ell. private i'll Company q, Thirteenth
Tennessee Cavalry, who fred on him.
TIE bullet took effect in General Nor
gan right side. aud ranging upward
ga account OF his stopping position,
passed ont near the heart. He fell and
died iu,tantly.
Meantime the balance of the officers
in and about the house, a few orderlies
and a squad from Dick Eargan : com
uand, were captured and rushed of to
ward the eastern part OF the
campbell ~dislnounted his horse, took q
look at the man he killed, recognized
him-he wa a deserter from Morgan.
| first communicated the body, threw
it over his saddle bow, remounted aud
rode away with his companions. They
went pell nell through the town, hled
to the right, passed out TO the north,
bore to the right round the high hill
where the remains Of Andrew johnson
are buried. and, though pretty hotly
pursued by a portion OF Dukes men
the reached the Bulls Gap road near
the point where they had charged the
rebel picket a half hour before.
~3sIngerton meantime had got partially
lost and was stumbling over bitches aud
through woods and brush 30 the south
west of the village. Hilcoxs firing at
Mrs. Williams house served as a bea-
con for him, and hi. force barely got in
time to pursue the rear OF Duke 5 force,
| which pursued Wilcox. This circum
stance probably saved the latter from
beng gobbled. All told they captured
about forty men and officers, a few horses
and worthless guns.
Gillem got another star. Campbell
was speedily promoted to a lieutenancy,
and q few days later was contemplating
his lively fortune in the guard house at
Knoxville, his landing there bsing occa-
stoned by an attempt to whip a damn
ed ni~gger.picket line The new-made
lieutenant was celebrating his coml-
mission, lost his way IN the night and
was induced by the colored pickets,
through rough handling and he prods
of a bayonet, to report to Major John
son, officer OF the day. That gentle
man, not approaching his society, re-
moved his insignia OF rank shut him up
under guard. This creature was after
the wal ended made a lieutenant III the
regular army and was finally, killed
in a drunken brawl at Helena, Arkans.s,
10 1869. In reference to an alleged
part taken by Mrs. Joseph A. Williams,
daughter-in-law of the lady at whose
house Morgan slept on that, for him,
fatal night, In conveying information to
Gillem, there has been notoriety through
idle gossip and through needless ana
sensational accounts in the press. Some
thing | wrote several years ago has been
tortured into a support of this scanda-
lous story by cutting out OF n OF my
paragraphs the name OF the woman
Bacon. Mrs. Williams was a young and
refined woman at that time, certainly
not more than twenty years old. She
and all her kin we're ardent Cvntederate>.
She wa a quiet and retiring lady, who
would as soon be suspected Of the per
formance | have described as she would
be of having inherited the warlike quail
tiles of Joan OF Are. No.more cruel story
was ever told on a woman.
A boy named Leady, who claimed he
had been ill-treated by Morgan, carried
the information from Greenville to
Bulls Gap. He was thereto i~nstigated
by a Mrs. Frey and a Mrs. Foster, wives
of men serving in the Federal army,
and both strong Unionists. But the
details of Morgan situation were given
Glllem by the woman Bacon, whom |
knew several years after the war aud
from whom | have the entire story,
which she told In a manner to convince
a listener hat she was not rOmanclnG.
General Glllem also told me in effect the
same thing, and she was corroborated
by others who met her on the night Of
the surprise.
The stupid sensation lately started to
the effect that Morgan is alive and prac-
ticing medicine IN Southern New Mex
leo IL entirely without foundation. Of
course. | saw Morgan several times
during his life and [ saw his dead body.
Hundreds OF others saw it who were
intimate with him in life. His wife,
who was a Hiss Ready, Of Murtrees-
boro, Tenn, was a beautiful and ac-
complished woman and they were very
happily mated. Mrs. Morgan, several
years ago, married Judge Williamson,
of Tennessee. She saw her former
husbands remains and mourDel at his
funeral. His body was sent to h.
being passed through the lines under a
flag of truce.