Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-09-10
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,saAnothef historic spot Il ths piacswhere
on the night OF Sept 4 1854 II was on the
line fronting the elegant residence Of Mr..
SonolsS % Or esa Ycur cor cGe
respondent asked him the other day TO give
the particulars Of Ao5gsns death he re,
: these days when both of us are idie and I
will put In couple OF days telling it, He
fufffler states that the true facts have never
been s published, and perhaps theynfeyyer Will
On, While in Greepeville last weak,
though most of the time confined in the
court room too closely to attend TO out
J side matters, / esssyed a compact and
concise reference to the killing Of GEN.
John H Morgan. and afterWard met
! Major w. DE- Williams, who assured
me that the ,..true facts had never been
published and perhaps never would
be."f I thereupon besought the gallant
ex-Confedsrate Gas an eyewitness of
the sad eyent) to render the story in
nuggets-to correct whatever Of error
had been misled into publishing
and. as the Court House bell was then
/, summoning to the johnson trial, 10
please boil 1t down and let the world
have at last an absolutely true story of
the important event., H., s,.... II
81 can do it, kindly the Major be-
gan, "for the true facts have never been
published, and perhaps never will be. I
was Confederate soldier myself, and
had returned to Greeneyille just about
the time Gen. Morgan camel in. Itwas
a very reckless thing in Morgan, and I
begged him. to -bivouac In his camp
over the hill yonder, but no, he would
stayy had seen him two or three days
before, had ovcrtaken him In fact at
Jonesborough-no-it wasn't Jones'
borough; 1t was Bristol. Perhaps be.
tween Bristol and Abingdon, Va.-yes,
it was in Virginia. Now,to 60 back to
Virginia" ec
.'1f you please, Major" put in i'm
patiently, for the court was already in
session; '.if you please let us rather
come on to Greeneville at single
bound and get exactly how and where
Gen. Morgan was killed, without any
of the trimming"
"All right, certainly. That's what
I'm coming to. Well, I was riding
along the road with an old comrade
some distance beyond Bristol, and now,
what's his nameP Oh, yes; Simmons;
poor John Simmons. Died in 1874 of
Bright's disease of the kidneys. Left
a daughter-beautiful girl-who mar
ried q Hardshell Baptist preacher,
whose sermon ON the subjectSof justi-
fication by faith l.,
Excuse me. Major; let s get with
lsthe Morgan part of the story, br Ill be
compelled to leaves you III the very
midst of it, ..-.u.,.-. B
s.We1I, now, don't be so fdgeby!
| That's just the reason the true facts
have never been published, and per-
haps never will be. You newspaper
men all run off before l can get to 'em.
But, however, as was saying, Sim
mons's daughter, who married the
Baptist preacher, was down in South
Carolina at the time; her husband had
taken her there to get her out O. the
way yo' the Yankees. Regular rebel,
she was; kin todd Patrick Henry, who
once told her grandfather
s.But for Heavens sake, let's don't
go back beyond the Revolution. Ex-
cuse me, my dear Sir, but
"Allright,n interposed the Major,
"all right. I'm coming to i'll But
that was horrible death Patrick Hen
rvs uncle (who was one Of Simmons's
daughters ancestors) died Oft was
hydrophobia. Iguess it'll make my
story somewhat shorter to tell it as I
go long. When George Washington
was surveying over in Fauquier Coun-
ty, about 10 years before the Revolu-
tionary war broke out, ne saw o mad
dog break loose in Capt. Gilhooly's
back yard, and run into the town and
bite a COW, horse. goat, a dog. and
two other gentlemen before"
before thunder, l impolitely ejacu-
lated. "Voorhees will be done speak
ing before you get as far as Jones'
borough with your Morgan story. Pm
anxious to get it IT,
Every we'll" continued my friend,
"very well. It's an important event,
| as you say, and the true facts in the
case have never been published, and
perhaps never will be. But pYe Got