. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . with a drawn revolver. 1 promptly told him to go down thestairs, to which he replied that Captain Ferguson had ordered meto let no one pass up the steps. I pushed by him going en up thesteps while Major Stringfield remained behind contending with theguard. ( )n the next flight of steps I met Cham]) Ferguson and hismen, and I said to them, Gentlemen, you must go down from herethis is a place for the sick and wounded, and you must not disturDthem, to which Champ Ferguson said with an oath, I will shootyou/ Standing within a few feet of each other
. Battles and sketches of the Army of Tennessee . with a drawn revolver. 1 promptly told him to go down thestairs, to which he replied that Captain Ferguson had ordered meto let no one pass up the steps. I pushed by him going en up thesteps while Major Stringfield remained behind contending with theguard. ( )n the next flight of steps I met Cham]) Ferguson and hismen, and I said to them, Gentlemen, you must go down from herethis is a place for the sick and wounded, and you must not disturDthem, to which Champ Ferguson said with an oath, I will shootyou/ Standing within a few feet of each other T .-aid to bun, This .11 \mi- l i:i;«.i SON. ..-J is a Confederate hospital, I am in charge of it, I command here, youmust go down from Champ Ferguson then advanced to with-in three feet of me, raised his cocked pistol and pointed directly atmy breast saying, ] dont care who you are, damn you, I will killyou. Realizing the desperate character 1 had to deal with and be-ing myself unarmed, yel impelled by a sense of duty, I again said to. COLONEL M. L. GORE,DIBKELLS CAVALRY, ARMY OF TEN-NESSEE, C. S. A. him, You must go down from here and out of this hospital. Whilewe were standing in this threatening attitude, face to face withFergusons pistol at my breast and swearing he would kill me, Lieu-tenant Philpot of Fergusons company stepped in between us at thesame time motioning with his hand to Ferguson when they all wentdown the steps, I, going down with them, Ferguson cursing andswearing as he went. They passed out of the hospital, mounted theirhorses and as they rode off shouted, We have killed the man thatkilled Hamilton. Afterwards I was told that Lieutenant Smith, whom Champ Fer-guson had just killed, had mistreated Fergusons family; that hemade Fergusons wife undress and marched her before him along thepublic road in a nude state. The killing of Smith was promptly reported to General Breck-enridge at Abingdon, he being in command of the Department of 530 BATTLES AND
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