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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863., Chapter 19: (search)
near Fort Scott rebel women carry information to the; enemy cholera and small-pox at Fort Gibson probable cause of cholera breaking out a soldier killed by Captain Tough a little too much drunkenness Major Blair closes the whisky shops resisting the draft great riot in New York City remarks on neutrality arrival of Colonet we were no worse afflicted during the spring and summer, and no doubt would have been, were it not for the vigilant eye of Colonel Phillips. On the 28th, W. S. Tough, Captain and Chief of Scouts, shot and killed a soldier on the street. It seems that the soldier was drunk and making some demonstration which led Tough to believe that he was endeavoring to draw his pistol. From what I can find out about the matter, however, I think it would have been much more creditable to Captain Tough to have turned his pistol against the enemy. Why a Captain of civilian scouts should be one hundred and fifty miles from the front is unaccountable to me anyway. No