Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-07
KILLED EVERY ONE OF THEM.

They Were Gucrrillns and He n Union
Man Whom They Left for Dead.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
In the closing years Of the war both sides
of the Kentucky and Tennessee line in
Monroe, Cumberland and Clinton counties
OF the first AIMED state and the cores
pending counties in Tennessee were scenes
or tho most stirring adventure and the
most brutal and barbarous outrages. The
Scotland Of Bruce's day was not more har-
ried than the section I have mentioned.
Champe Ferguson was on the one side and
Tinker Dave Beattie and ELAN Huddles-
ton were on the other. No quarter was
asked. and no quarter would have been
given had 1t been asked. No citizen. when
he retired at night, was safe In his own
household, for in that community war
meant rapine.
In Monroe county, Kentucky, lived a most
extraordinary man, John Frame by name.
He was a tall, slender. angular man, full
OF energy and determination. whose life
had been exceptionally active. He was
trader, merchant. farmer and capitalist.
in hogs in Cincinnati, in cattle in st. Louis.
in horses in Atlanta, In mules IN New Or
leans, in tobacco in Louisville. He was
natural-born money maker, and at the be-
ginning of the war he was very rich man
for that section. He was a most disputa-
cious man and dearly loved law suit, and
he was very rarely defeated in court house.
In 1861 Frame was an ardent, active and
influential Union man. He recruited soldiers
for and furnished supplies TO Gen. Wards
command at Greensburg. Ward. made him
wagon master, a position that required Just
such a man to render that department efh-
Client He could push forward a wagon train
with more expedition than any other wagon
master in the army. Never having felt
physical fatigue himself, he would not admit
that driver or mule could feel fatigue.
oYlyy in q
scouting ear Columbia, came upon Frame,
who was the guest Of friend in the coun-
try, and captured him. He was carried to
Glasgow, thence to Bowling Green and final
ly he was landed a prisoner of war in the
prison at Salisbury, N. c. There he remain
ed about two years before he was exchang-
ed. When he returned to the federal lines
free man. he engaged himself actively in the
promotion of the Union cause, and so contin-
ued until the war closed.
About the last of July or first Of August
he was at home on his farm on Indian
creek, Monroe county, KY, looking after his
varied interests in that vicinity. While eat
Ing dinner one day the house was surround
ed by five of Champe Ferguson's men, who
We're there for the express purpose of killing
him. He knew every one Of them personally
and they knew him. Knowing that no quar-
ter would be shown him he ran for it, enter
ing cornfield with all five hot after him.
They shot him six or seven times, some Of
the wounds very serious. He fell, simulat-
ing death. They came I'd and fired other
shots into his body, and then, satisfied he
was done for, they departed. When they
were gone he dragged himself home where
he lay for weeks lowering betwr en- life and
death. After time his splendid physical
constitution and indomitable will prevailed
and he recovered. In speaking to me of it
years after the war. he closed with the sig
nificant remark: They amt nary a one Of
them fellows alive today" He slew four of
them with his own hand before the war clos
ed and he killed the other in a desperate en-
counter, in which he also was despera tely
wounded, year after the war closed