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The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1861., [Electronic resource] 8 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 5 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: September 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Murder in Alabama. (search)
aldwin county, Alabama, on Tuesday, the 17th. The writer gives the particulars as follows: On Monday a man named Wm. McLeod went to the house of Joseph Bates and insulted Mr. Bates by a somewhat indiscriminate abuse of him and the neighbors gelan,) who having occasion, as is said, for a little ar, was going into the house to procure it, when he was requested by McLeod to de Bates to come out, as he wished to talk to him. Bates went out near to McLeod, some hundred and fifty feet from thMcLeod, some hundred and fifty feet from the house, when the latter demanded why certain names had been applied to him the day before. A quarrel followed, during which Bates took a maul, when McLeod ordered him to go to the house. Bates was fifty or more feet from his antagonist, when the lMcLeod ordered him to go to the house. Bates was fifty or more feet from his antagonist, when the latter, taking deliberate aim, exploded, fruitlessly, one of the gun-caps. The other barrel unfortunately went off, lodging forty-five buck-shot within the space of a man's hand, near the region of Bates's heart.