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The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1861., [Electronic resource] 12 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
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ven the falling tears glisten like bright dew-drops in the sunshine. Eloquent and exalted as he was in intellect, Sargent S. Prentiss was as genial and chivalric as he was gifted and great. No Southern man born was more completely Southern in all e walls of Mexico, like Ripley, of Fort Moultrie, and thousands like them, who have made the South their permanent home, Prentiss was as true and loyal to the South as any of her native-born sons; far more so than the Crittendens, Guthries, Carliles, and others, who are simply Northern men, born in a Southern latitude. If that brilliant intellectual comet, S. S. Prentiss, originated in a Northern sky, his path of light was always loyal to the Southern sun, and when in its mid-heaven it disappeapaper than it always has been, is now, and always will be, till its editor is resolved into his original mire. As Sargent S. Prentiss in his ardent and sympathizing loyalty was the type, we firmly believe, of large numbers of Southern citizens of N
eir home on Ozark Island, about two miles below this place, living together in the same house, and uniting their labors in the making of their small crop. A difficulty occurred between them some time since; the parties were arrested, brought to Prentiss, examined, and the case discharged, it being considered the result of a drunken brawl, both parties being addicted to drinking. On Friday night last the quarrel was renewed. On Saturday morning, while Cleveland was in the garden gathering ot gun; which he had loaded with twelve buck-shot to each barrel, and going to the corner of the house, took deliberate aim and fired, the shot entering Cleveland's side, killing him instantly. It is supposed that Cleveland's wife, hearing the report of the gun, ran out to her husband, when Crawford fired on her, the shot taking effect in the back, killing her instantly. Crawford then covered the body with weeds, and in the evening came to Prentiss and gave himself up to the authorities.