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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1864., [Electronic resource] 28 0 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 24 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 27. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure), Fire, sword, and the halter. (search)
tory. At the breaking out of the war, David S. Creigh, an old man of the highest social positio there being a Federal force near Lewisburg, Mr. Creigh, on entering his house one day, found a drunng himself to their contents. At the moment Mr. Creigh entered, the ruffian was attempting to forcetely drew a pistol, cocked it, pointed it at Mr. Creigh, and exclaimed: Go out of this room. What are you doing here? Bring me the keys. Mr. Creigh attempted to defend himself and family, but a piswn stairs, the robber on top. They rose, and Mr. Creigh attempted to wrest the pistol from the handsthe portico, where the ruffian again shot at Mr. Creigh, when a negro woman, who saw it all, run up it. Search was made, the remains found, and Mr. Creigh was arrested. He made a candid statement ofe army a citizen of Greenbrier, whose name was Creigh, who was about to be executed; his doom had ju, and buried it in a grave dug on the spot. Mr. Creigh had no trial, no witnesses, no counsel nor f[2 more...]