The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-01
NOTED GUERRILLA DEAD.

EDalIas, Tex, Cor. st. Louis Republic
Capt S. 2. Emmerson, formerly of
Dallas, died in Denver, Colo, on Tues
day last and was buried in this city to-
day. Captain Emmerson was one of the
most noted characters produced. on the
southern side by the war between the
states A native of Kentucky, he had
strong southern inclinations, and when
the war came on he raised and COM
manded an irregular confederate force,
commonly known as guerrillas.
Many of the exploits of Emmerson's
command were as daring and sensa-
tionaI as those of QuantrelI, Morgan or
Mosby. In one of his raids he was cap
tured and imprisoned in Kentucky, but
made bold escape by cutting through
the prison door. He was soon in ac-
ton again, and in 1863 or 1864 had COM
mand of the force of about 100 men
that rode into Chicago with the inten-
ton OF causing an uprising that should
capture or destroy the city. In this
hope Emmerson was disappointed. He
escaped capture, as he often related, by
stealing a horse and riding beyond the
lines of danger. He then turned the
horse loose and hoped it got back to
its owners, as he always expressed it.
Captain Emmerson was a friend of
Frank James in war days, and also of
City Marshal Pullman of Ardmore, I. T.
These men have often spoke highly OF
him as a man and soldier. Captain En-
mersOn lived for many years on his Dallas
county farm, near Richardson, Il miles
from TINS city. he was an ola DdcnelOr
and inclined to reticence on the subject
of civil war, particularly in regard to his
own part in it. He never got over his
grief for the Lost Cause" Before going
to Denver, when his health failed him,
he called on Mrs. Kate Campbell Currie.
of Dallas, former national president OF
the Daughters of the Confederacy, and
now at the head of the local chapter of
the order. He said to her:
when the Southern COnfederacy per-
ished I lost what stood to me in my affec-
tons the same as do wife, children and
los 10 fF an M
which will be soon, I ask that you see
that buried among my own kind Of
people. / desire that a plain suit of Con-
federate gray be my burial garments.
diers to act as pallbearers and to place
me in the grave. I desire the Confederate
flag to be spread upon my coffin. de-
sire that a plain monument SurmOunted
ed over the center of my grave, and that
on that monument shall be carved this
epitaph only Here lies a man who be-
neved in the traditions and teachings of
the old south
I'm my will I shall, make provisions for
my burial expenses
Mrs. Currie promised Captain Emmer-
son that she would do as he had request
ed. When notified last Tuesday of his
death, she made the arrangements for his
funeral and was in charge of it today.
The body was met at the railway station
on its arrival from Denver last night by
squad of former Confederate soldiers
who bore it to the residence of Judge Ed
which the funeral took place at noon to-
day. The grave was IN the middle of the
burial lot owned by the Daughters of the
Confederacy. Camp Sterling Price, United
Confederate Veterans, attended in a body,
and their old battle-scarred Confederate
flag was spread over the coffin.