The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-11-15

When this was done it WAS dinner time,
and The General, with true Soathern court
esy, invited the guerrilla TO dinner The
invitation was declined with thanks.
No sooner had Mccullough and staff dis
appeared in the direction of the dining hall
than QuantrelI sprang through the door of
the bedroom, seized his revolvers, disarmed
his guards, and, running down the stairway,
shouted to his men:
mount your horscs I'm arrested"
Mounting, they galIoped swiftly away,
disappearing up the road by which they
came. Eight miles from Bonham one of
their horses showed signs OF giving out.
Meeting a man well mounted they halted
him, exchanged horses, and continued on to
camp.
The next day the infantry reached their
camp, only to find the guerrillas on the OPP
posite bank of The river in the Indian Terri
tory and outside their jurisdiction.
The officer commanding the troops and
Qu8ntrell parleyed across the river, which
Is here very narrow. Quantre1 informed
the officer that he did not wish to fight
Texas troops, but that he would not be ar
rested. As the result of the conference,
Quantrell agreed to leave Texas for good if
he should be let alone. In few days he set
out for Missouri.
1t is Just TO say that at this time the band
was falling to pieces. Bill Anderson and
% men had left the original gang and gone
To BoDham. The occasion of this was
Fletcher Taylor, who had been accused OF
murdtring and rObbing rich old planter
mp on Red RiveT-Maj. Butts. For this
crime he was tried by ii cOurt-martial con-
vened by Quantrell, found guilty, and con-
demned TO he executed.
Has guard desi2Dedly gave linn an opportu-
nifty TO escape which he improved promptly.
Toward morning he rode up to cabin some
three miles east OF Sherman, and requested
10 be allowed to stay the remainder of the
aiubt The old man, owner Of the cabin,
T.lustd 10 open the door, for the gueTrillas
bad made the times too squally 10 run any
g,-E. But when he learned the name of the
fIgltiEe he tod him there was a ladder out
SIDE az the end of the cabin leading 10 the
loft tie was welcome TO 60 up there and
sleep with the boys, and his old woman
would feed him in the morning. Not long
after this he joined Anderson at Bonham.
These men all accompanied the infantry
sent 10 arrest Quantrell, but they took no
part al the time either way.
Bill Anderson was subsequently killed on
the banks IF the Missouri, above Bonneville
His wife was a Miss Bush Smith. 1t was
reported that she received at the hands of
the band, who returned from the Price
raid, 81 500 in gold and greenbacks, to-
geiher with some silks, which were all
packed in pair Of pants and strapped
behind the saddle. The idow published
in Texas PIPER, The Mckinney Messenger,
issued by Quaker throughout The entire
war, a parody on John Anderson, my 10
John, which she changed 10 " Bill Anderson,
my Boy Bill"
AS for Fletcher Taylor, when peace was
restored he returned home with his empty
sleeve. Subsequently he married very
estimable young woman, the adopted daugh-
ter of Mr. s. Noel, OF Nashville, Tenn. The
band went to pieces in Kentucky. -EDwARD
Il. HEAToS, Of Gen. Frank WEeatons
Headquarters, Alton, Iowa.