The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-10-27
s-9s, ranging upward. on account of his
stopping position, passed out near the
heart. He fell aud died instantly.


Meantime the balance of tho officcrr in
and about the house, few orderlies aud
squad from Dick Morgan's command
were captured and rushed off toward the
eastern part of the towp. Campbell dis.
mounted his horse, took look at the
man he killed, recognized him-he was q
deserter from Morgan's first command
raised the body, threw it over his saddle
bow, remounted and rode away with his
companions. They went pell nell
through the town, filed to the right
passed out to to tue north, bore to the
right round the .gh hill where the re-
mains Of Andf. johnson are buried
and though pretty holly pursued by q
portion of Dukes men they reached the
Bulls Gap road near the point where
they had charged the rebel picket l.ali
hour before.
Ingerton meantime had got partially
lost and was stumbling over bitches and
through WOO and brush to the south
west of the village. Wilcox's firing at
Mrs. Williams house served as beacon
for him, and his force barely got in time
TO pursue the rear of Dukes force, which
pursued Wilcox. This circumstance
probably saved the latter from being
gobbled All told they captured
about forty men and officers, and worth
less guns.
Gillem got another star. Campbell
was speedily promoted to lieutenancy,
and few days later was contemplating
his lively fortune in the guard house at
Knoxville, his landing there being oc-
cas!oned by an attempt to "whip damn
ed niger picket line" The new. made
lieutenant was Celebrating" his COM
mission, lost his way in the night and
was induced by the colored pickets,
through rough handling and the prods
of bayonet, to report to Major johnson,
officer of the day. That gentleman, not
appreciating his society, removed his in
sigma of rank, shut him up under guard.
This creature was after the war ended
made a lieutenant il 'ie regular army
and was finally killed in drunken
brawl at Helena, Arkansas, in 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 con.
veying information to Gillem, there has
been notofiety through idle gossip and
through needless and sensational accounts
in the press. Something wrote several
years ago has been tortured into support
of this scandalous story by cutting out
OF one 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 were ardent Confed-
crates. She was quiet and retiring lady
who would as soon be suspected of the
performance have described as she
would be of having inherited the warlike
qualities of Joan of Arc. No more cruel
story was ever told on woman.
A boy named Leady, who claimed he
had been iii-treated by Morgan, carried
the information from Greenville to Bulls
Gap. He was Heretofore instigated by
Mrs. Frey and Mrs. Foster, wives Of
men serving in the Federal army, and
both strong Unionists. But the details
of Morgan's situation were given Gillem
by the woman Bacon, whom knew sew
eral years after the war and from whom
l have the entire story, which she told in
a manner 10 convince listener that she
was not romancing. General Gillem also
told me in effect the same thing, and she
WAS corroborete;i 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 Mexico
is entirely without foundation, of course.
I saw Morgan several times during his
life and I saw his dead body. Hundreds
of Others saw it who were intimate with
him in life. His wife, who was a Miss
Ready, of Murfreesboro, Tenn, WAS a
beautiful and accomplished woman and
they were very happily mated. Mrs.
Morgan, several years ago, married Judge
Williamson, of Tennessee. She saw her
former husbands remains and mourned
at his funeral. His body was sent to
her, being passed through the lines under
q flag of trucc.-By j. E. Mac Govan,
Late Colonel United States Volunteers.