| Show A LANUE il and confederate scouts borgia tedon on the of june 1863 1 witnessed a duel between capt jones commanding a federal scout and capt fry commanding a rebel scout in greene county east ten these two men bad been fighting each other for six months with the fortunes of battle in bayor first of one and ahn the other their commands were encamped on either alde of lick creek it large and sluggish stream too deep to ford and too shallow for a ferry boat but there a bridge spandet sp annet the stream for the convenience of the traveling public each of teem guarded this bridge that ni cation should go neither north nor south as the railroad track had been broken up months before after fighting each other severna severn 1 months and contesting the point as to which should hold the bridge they agreed to fight a due the conqueror to hold the bridge un disputed for the time being jones gave the challenge and fry accepted the terms were that they should fight with navy pistols at twenty yards apart deliberately walking toward each other and firing until the last cli amber af their pistols was discharged unless one or the other fell before all the discharges were made they chose their seconds and agreed upon a reber surgeon as be wits the 1 I y one in either command to attend them in case of danger jones was certainly a fine looking fellow with light hair and blue eyes five feet ton inches in bight looks ing every inch the military chief ile was a man soldiers would esteem and ladies regard with ad ruination rui ration I 1 nev eisaw a man more cool determined and heroic under such circumstances I 1 have read of the deeds of chivalry and knight errantry in the middle ages and brave men embalmer embalmed ed i p 0 ell but when I 1 saw jones come to if duellists duel lists scratch fight illg not for real or supposed wrongs to himself but as he honestly thought for bis country and the glory of the flag I 1 could not help admiring the man notwithstanding he fought for the freedom of the negro which I 1 was opposed to F iry was a man full six feet big slender with long wavy curling bl ack etes wearing a ell hat and gray suit and looked rather the demon than the niad there was nothing ferocious about him but ile bad that self sufficient nonchalance that said 1 I will kill you without a doubt he was brave cool and collected and although suffering from a ter flesh wound in his left arm received a week before be maui bested no symptoms of distress but seemed ready for the fight the ground was stepped off by the seconds pistols loaded and exchanged and the principals brought face to face they turned around and walked back to the point de V bated joness second had the word fire and as be slowly dald one two three firel they simultaneously turned at the word and instantly fired neither was hurt they cocked their pistols and beliber de liber abely walked toward bah other firing as they went at the fifth shot bories threw up his right and firing his pistol in the air sank down pry was in the act of firing his last shot but seeing jones fall he silently lowered his tol drop ped it on the ground an prang to side taking his head his lap as be sat down and asked it he was hurt I 1 discovered that jones was ihfe through the region of the stomach the bullet glancing around that organ and coming out to the left of the spinal column besides he had received other frightful alb wounds in other portions of the body 1 dressed the dounda aud gave him such as I 1 had ile afterward got avell fry received three wounds one breaking his right arm one on the left and the other in the right side after months of suffering be got wen and fought the war out to the bitter end and to day the two are ners in a wholesale grocery partners Eart |
