The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-01-25
GOVERNOR MARMADUKE's DUEL
Killing Fellow-Oticer While the Enem.
Were Advancing O Their Troops.
From the St. Louis Republ

Were Advancing o, Their Troops.
lFrom the ST. Louis Republican,
General D. II. Frost has been ac-
auainted with the deceased ever since
the opening of the Rebt Mon, and gave a
Republican reporter an account OF the
duel between the deceased governor and
Brigadier General Walker, of Tennessee,
last night. At lhe time the duel was
fought, General Frost was in command
of division under General Price before
Little Rock, and, as General Price was
in Memphis at that time, General Frost
was practically in command of all the
Confederate forces at Little Rock. Gen
eral Frost relates the story or the duel IN
this manner:
'sBoth of the men were excellent gen.
tlemen and there vas no necessity for q
duel. Everybody knows that Governor
Marmaduke belongs to an excellent fam
lily. Both bore the title of brigadier
general, and Marsh Walker was con-
nected with the best families of Tennes-
see. He was related to the Knox and
Folk families of that State, and his OWL
family was of high standing. There vas
some jealousy existing between the two
men on account of rank. Walker was
Marnaduke's superior in rank, but IN
some manner or other jealousy arose be-
tween them and General Marmaduke
made some reference to General Walker
in conversation. It was not long until
Marmaduke's remarks we're carried to
Walkers ears by busy-bodies. Walker
demanded that Marnaduke make re-
traction, which the latter refused to do.
Walker then sent challenge to General
Marmaduke to fight duel, and he could
lot do otherwise than accept the chal-
lenge. The duel was fought while Steele
was making advances on Prices COM
mand, and our pickets were actually en-
gagged with the enemy at the time
Pistols were the weapons resorted 20,
and only one shot was fred b7
each. General Marmaduke's bullet
pierced Walker through the kidneys, and
he died after lingering for several days
in great agony. General Marmaduke
escaped unhurt The unhappy occur
renee was source of much regret to him
even up to the present time. He never
spoke of the duel, but know that be
has always lamented that it ever took
place. have never read any of thecor-
respondence which passed between the
two generals on the subject, but I have
always thought, and the army generally
believed, that the duel was the result Of
bad management on the part Of the Sec
onds of both men. They passed through
my camp as they vent out to fight the
duel, and had I known what they were
going to do I would have placed both Of
them under arrest, and thus the duel
might have been averted. It was no
time for an occurrence of that kind, any
how. The enemy was advancing on our
works, and we needed all Of our men for
fighting purposes.
:sI think be was at one time engaged
to be married, shortly after the war
closed, to young lady of Memphis, but
I am not positive as to that. He was
very attentive to the lady and they had
quarrel, and if an engagement ever ex-
listed it was broken off as result Of the
quarrel. Afterwards the lady married
some gentleman in the South. The
Governor was wocshipper of little
children and always seemed happy IN
their presence.