The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-12
HOW QUANTRELL WAS KILLED.
New Account" Not i'm Harmony with
That Written by the GuerriIIa's
Historian.
From the New York Sum

Historian.
From the New York Sun.
r~a days ago a woman 80 years old, was
sent under escort from a little town in Ohio
to the Confederate Veteran Association
Home in Lexington, KY. Her name is
Caroline Clark Quantrell. She is me
mother of Charles William Quantreu
guerrilla.
Following the account of the removal
of this woman to a home where she Is
to be cared for ,as long as she lives, was
a story purporting to be, new account
of the killing of the most remarkable man
of his type that the war produced.
AS the writer of the new account spells
the name incorrectly throughout one need
not expect to find all the statements in
accordance with the facts.
There is only one true account of the
killing of Quantrel. 1t was written by
one who had Quantrells confidence who
was Quantrelrs adviser up to the time
that Quantrell left Missouri for Kentucky;
this man was the custodian of the data
of the guerrilla warfare of the West. He
wrote the history of the guerrilla organi-
zation-the only history of that organiza-
ton ever written and printed. Not state
ment in that history has been questioned. 4
The story of the last fight and the
shooting of Quantrell, and his death la
ter was told to Maj. John NJ Edwards
by Quantrells lieutenants. who were
there They knew Edwards as their
friend, and confded to him the message
of Quantrell and his report of the fight at
Wakefields house in Kentucky in June,
1862 The story, as Edwards wrote it, is
too long to be reproduced here, nor is 1t
necessary that it should be. But as
new account" is out, it is well enough TO
summarize the old account, which is the
correct one.
The men with Quantrell at the time
were John Ross. William Huse, Payne
Jones, Clark Hockensmith. Isaac Hall,
Richard Glasscock, Robert Hall, Bud
Pence, Allie Farmer, Dave Hetton and
Lee McMurtry. A rainstorm of unusual
severity drove Quantrell and these men
to a barn. They dismounted and hitched
their horses to a fence. While the horses
were feeding the men amused themselves
with a sham battle. using cobs for am
munition. They were unusually hilarious
Glasscock was the first to give the alarm
He saw coming toward the barn a column
of Federal cavalry. 100 strong. Here
they arew was his shout. Every man
rushed for his horse. The attacking party
was led by Capt. Edward Terrell. who
had a special and rowing commission to
hunt down Quantrell. He had fought
Quantrell once and knew the man. He
did not, however, know that he was with
in hundred miles of Quantrell until one
of his company accidentally discovered
the horses of the band
The attack was quick. Before the guer-
rillas could bride their horses the men
We're In a hail of carblne bullets. The
| fight was close. When II was hottest
Quantrell called out: "Cut through, BOYS:
cut through somehow. Don't surrender
while there's a chance to get out"
Five of them did cut through; they were
Ross, Hulse, Farmer. McMurtry and
Pence. Quantrells horse was a spirited
animal 1t had broken from its hitching
and was running excitedly about the LOT
Quantrell was trying to get it by coaxing.
The horse was frightened and no lonyer
under control of his master The new
account says this horse was lent to Guam
treil by woman. The animal was a IA