The weekly clarion., 1881-09-22
The Horrible Assassination of Gen.
Tucker.

1t is with unspeakabIe sorrow we have
been called upon to announce the sud
den death at the hands of cruel and
cowardly assassin of Gen. w. F.
Tucker, one of the purest and most dis
tinguished men of Mississippi. The par
ticulars of the assassination are given
in another column. Nothing could have
exceeded in shocking cruelty the man
ner of his murder. In his death our
State has lost one of her best and most
devoted sons. In all that makes up a
a noble and heroic man, Gen. Tucker
was without superior. He was gen
tie and good and pure and brave. His
heart knew no guile; his spirit was as
pure and unspotted as the driven snow.
The following sketch of his career is
copied from the Aberdeen Examiner :.
Gen. Tucker was a man of about fifty
Carolinian by birth, coming to the State
about the same time as his old class-mate
and friend, DIR. J. Murdock, of Buena
Vista, and on his suggestion settling in
Chickasaw county, where he commenced
life as school teacher and soon entering
upon the practice of the law at Houston
obtained note and influence in the District
and State, serving upon the Bench and in
the Legislature with distinction, and being
last year a prominent candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Congress.
When the call was made for soldiers for
the Southern army, he was one of the first
to respond, and resigning lucrative prac-
| tice, hurried to Corinth with splendid co m
pany, the Chickasaw Guards, in which his
law partner, Mr.. Ivans, afterwards Major OF
the 11th and killed at Sharpsburgh, was
private; there the command was incorpora-
ted in the above named regiment that went
at once to the Valley of Virginia, under the
lamented Col. VIM. II. Moore, of this coun-
| ty.
Serving as Captain is this regiment uutil
the reorganization at Yorktown, he re-
turned to Mississippi to assist in raising the
AID Regiment of volunteers. to the Colonel
cy of which he was elected, and which did
noble service under his command in the
Western army, particularly Distinguishing
itself at Rerryyille where he received his
! first wound.
When Patton Anderson was promoted to
the command of a Division, this distin-
guished soldier received a commission as
igadier-General, although there were
three colonies in the brigade who ranked
him, and was assigned to the command from
which Gen. Anderson was taken. During
the retreat of Johnson's army from Dalton,
fuckers brigade was always relied upon
for conspicuous service, and at Resaca he
was again wounded. being thus to certain
extent disabled in both arms. Taken to
the improvised hospital when the army was
threatened in flank by column that came
near getting through Snake Gap-which
was g4llantly held by the Texas dismounted
cavalry brigade, under our former fellow |
citizen, Col, Tom. Harrison-he was cap
tured with our other wounded men by |
Federal cavalry command that succeeded |
in passing our lines, but recaptured before
the end of the day.
Serving until the surrender at Hight |
Point, North Carolina, he returned to the
beloved State of his adoption to do his part
in the woFk q lesarreeting her from the
ruins Of the war.
After the war. Gen. Tucker returned
to the practice of his profession, but
was public-spirited and took deep in
terest in public affairs. He served a
term in the Legislature, and bore a
leading part in that body. In 1880, he
came within a few votes of nomina-
ton for Congress in the 4st District His
last appearance in public capacity was
as member of the late Democratic State
Convention, of which he was leading :
and conspicuous member. He was ,
consistent member of the Methodist !
Episcopal Church. lie leaves wife |
and several children to mourn his loss.
His large circle of friends will never
cease to cherish his memory,