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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 10: the last invasion of Missouri.--events in East Tennessee.--preparations for the advance of the Army of the Potomac. (search)
triotic. She gave the Unionists much information concerning the movements of Morgan's brigade; and under the erroneous impression that she had betrayed him at this time, when his command entered Greenville on the withdrawal of Gillem, they brought a halter wherewith to hang her on a pear-tree near the place of their chief's death. She was then safe from harm, in Knoxville. Coincident with the testimony of the above cited witness, was a letter written the next day to Morgan's wife by C. A. Withers, of the staff of the guerrilla chief, in which he says: General Morgan was killed in the garden of Mrs. Williams, in Greenfield, while endeavoring to escape. He was struck in the center of his breast, the ball passing through his heart. It is stated that Morgan, when killed, was dressed in the National uniform. See Knoxville Whig, September 14, 1864. The whole region of the great Valley of East Tennessee, eastward as well as westward of Knoxville, is clustered with the most stirrin