Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1902-01-15
VI ~ ON d aOAT tsl 40 ~
AN HlstorIo Aiialf of Honor III the Lons AGO.
a Settlement With Pistols &

I meetlng IN some Sc eoluQ ed 6p0 VI 9th
equipped with spisto Sd and second
aud 4 physician, the Sand Bar Ferry
lduelling ground was ia its palmiest
days. SIS rs
There have been interesting ac-
counts Of !settle ements of fends writ:
| ten whichs concern the above field of
honor. ~ has royed 80 gold mine
Tor rel Portets. They have written
Iand written again of the meetings on
hatgstage Of sduels. ss3S
ct still there id d mine Of inter-
l.esting reminisce cenoes5l left yet to- be
told Of through d The me- dium Of tho
Ipen Or typewriter. = ss3
5 The day dawn duel, the ride from
IsIthe the oitsy toss he dpelling grounds as
the, ,l,, ain Ssyaa eping ,ptho pping
off of the PAGES and i:s ls}3i
Butsit's all I'D the line that We have
heard Of go many times, yet always
new and 40 what the writer prop poses
toSsrelat y about an affair Of honor
that did. not OCCUR at Sand Bar
Ferry, but at another cling ground
farther up the river. S
What has been related to the
writer concerns a duel between two
very prominent people, two Caro-
linians, Rhichg occurred back In the
|duelling days. s. .siS slSi ; B
About ten miles above Augusta,
where the Savannah river grows
shallow and washes the rocks, lis a
bank of sand called Goat Island s
About sixty years g o that bank,
ofIsand was the essoeneg of la duel at an
early hour on a3 certain morning.
TwoSlegal gentlemen were the ( prin-l
oipals in the affair, and both were
gentlemen who were we'll known in
national politics. Louis 4 Migfall,I
Of South Carolina, and Preston
Brooke, Of the same State, were the.
men. 81
Brooks vas % years of age, Wig
fall was %. They had indulged it a
heated politics argument. The cbal-l
lenge hadSbeenSgigen. 8S &. q
Enongh said The challenge in
those days was to be settled only on
the field Of honor.
Ona falljmorning Of the year 1s41
the two gentleAen could have been
eeen to enter carriages in the city of
Augusta and drive rapidly towards
the west ~
In carriages were the seconds and;
a physician and three colored body.
servants of the duellists.
at $50 O'clock the two gentlemen
who were to settle the dispute a la
the code, stopped to their places on
Goat Island and awaited the word to-
fire.
John Laurens Manning, Of Sumter
county, South Carolina, was Wig
falls second and Brooks had Pierce
Mason Butler as his best man in the
affair.
The econds took their places, the
physicians got ready to attend to
the wounded, and as the sun began
to3blink in5the east the word s.firen"s
was given.
Two shots Were exchanged The
result of the second shot was the
wounding Of Wigfall, shot through
the thigh. Brooks also received 81
wound lin the hip. Both sank to the
ground and were soon unconscious
from loss of blood.
The physioians got to work on the
duellists and the mon were brought
back to the city.
Arriving at Augusta Mr.. Wigfall|
was taken to the home of3a friend,
and Mr.. Brooks was put to. bed in
! Boards Hotepl, in Hamburg.
q SO mlcSs the duel.
From q nanuscript8of q South
Carolina lady ], find the following,
which tells of the life events Of the
two daellists Of Goat Island
55 Louis T aWigfall married d brill.
liant belle OF Providence, Rhode
Island, and after living iii Edgefeld
a few years subseqaent to his
duel, removed to Marshall, Texas,
which State he very soon
represented in the United States
Senate, where he achieved ma
.tionai reputation aa aptorator and al
statesman. The war, of course,
found him deyotedly and enthusias-
.ticailyy or .hs side Of y his, his native
South Hc became d hero lin the
memorable and initial siege Of Fort
Sumter, q brigadier general lin the
Confederate army, Senator from.
Texasin the Confederate Congress,
and an intimate friend and adviser OF
Jefferson Davis. He diel in Gal.
lvestion, Texas, sona or tsye elya