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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 9: Governor Warmoth. (search)
lows is a mystery as well as a tragedy. Daniel C. Byerley, a Lieutenant in the Confederate army, a, takes the quarrel with Warmoth on himself. Byerley, a strong man, but maimed of his left arm, foom these blows, Warmoth retreats some steps. Byerley rushes on him. They close, and Byerley throwsByerley throws his enemy to the ground. Twisting and fighting, the two men roll to the kerbstone, Byerley beatinByerley beating Warmoth on the head, and Warmoth jobbing his knife into Byerley's side. A crowd runs on them, aByerley's side. A crowd runs on them, and lifts them up. Byerley shakes his cane, but leaves the ground, leaning on the arms of two friendByerley shakes his cane, but leaves the ground, leaning on the arms of two friends, who bear him to a hospital close by. Warmoth gives up his knife, and yields himself prisoner to a captain of police. Byerley lingers a few hours, and then expires. Having met his death in fighting an intruder, Byerley is the hero of New Orleans, and a long train of carriages follows him todge, he is at once discharged. I thought Byerley was fully armed, says Warmoth, in explanation