The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-10-20
QUANTRELL'S FATE.
AN OPEN LETTER TO AN EDITOR.


DALLAS, Oct, u, lsSl.-.E Editor Groon
vile Herald. Dear Sir: In Your issue
of the Goth INST, copied from tho WASH
ington correspondent of the Galveston
News, is anew version rs TO the last OF
Ruantrell, namely, that the war found |
him wounded near Springfield, Mis-.
souri,, whence he was hauled TO tho |
NOISE OF Mr.. lmboden, near Greon- |
Nllle' hunt county, where he soon |
recovered sufficiently to mount his |
morse and leave, after which nothing |
was ever heard of him. II true, YOU, an |
editor ON the spot can verify It. IL NAV !
be true, but, while personally knowing /,
nothing whatever on the subject, DO |
not believe IL. FOR Quantrell TO have
entered Missouri Mt any time after
Prlco's RAID would have been reckless
madness.
| That he crossed the Mississippi from
Arkansas not long before the close of
the war is beyond question. That he
/ vowed, on leaving, that when next
heard from the country would be as
| founded, had the assurance of "A lis
tingulshed officer known to the fact, but
VINO had no idea of his designs. This
TACT was communicated TO me on route
to Mexico after the surrender. when
w NOV iNhiu VI lilt hSShNNlunllO1l Oi
Lincoln, my informant then telling me
of Cuantrel's declaration prior to his
departure, which, In connection with
'he Tact that Quaptrell had been reared
or had long lived about Washington
city, convinced him that he was the
assassin of the president, aud il was
sometime before the Developments fol-
lowing satisfied him to the contrary.
IL has for years periodically gone the
ROUNDS OF the press, and from several
sources that Quantrell was killed or
MORTAL wounded in Kentucky u little
while before the surrender, and this |
nave believed to be the fact, from state
ments made to mo long before any such
publication appeared. Al Orizsba,
Mexico, through tho winter OF
lD5-d, was considerably
thrown with Capt. -----, who claimed
70 have been guerilla captain in Ken
lucky. lie said That Quantrell foil in
and cO-operated with him for some time
= under the assumed namo of Capt
y Woods, and that no communicated Il
him his Intention of going To Washing
q Ton IN the spring. After diveri
> adventures, each in command OF 4
I small party, thoy were surprised
: by the federals while in the shelter
Of large barn on cold, rainy day
Most OF the party were killed OF
NouhuCl. My informant escaped. Guam
troll was wounded and in due tim,
placed in hospital Ut Louisville. nv
informant had frequently told him OF d
gentleman in Louisville, strong
+ union man and wealthy, but like
II father to him, whose wife was hi,
a liny infOrmants) aunt. ! cannot recall
. his name, and 1t would probably be i'm
" proper for me To do 10 II I could
I Quantroll registered on the prison rolls
/. ~ Capt. Woods, finding that death va,
a certain, sent for this gentleman ant
j made himself known, begging secrecy
n making several requests, among then
q that no would inform his nephew Of hi
N fatei aad this he did after tho surrender
a. had no reason to doubt this state
a mont. II was in harmony with Quan
IA trelPs declared intention on leayin,
h Arkansas, and the subsequent puhlica
p lions referred to, made apparently ~
v two D. three different persons at d. yet
n ent times, ali went 20 cOrrobOrate !.
L though mother gave the fact OF his dyin,
In hospital in Louisville.
i This particular version, as given me
N has never been published, and unles
4, the Hunt county episode can DO vori
lied, ! shall continue In the impression
that 1t IN substantially tho true one. Bu
70 FOR your ability 10 sottle that point thi
y would not now b. written.
~ Very truly,
Il joins HRFRr Brown,