This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RgB.2ACE/666 Message Board Post: Madisonville Democrat, Wednesday, April 1, 1942: “Tulogahler---In regard to Gen. T.W. Peace’s recent article concerning some of the things that happened about the time of the Civil War, I think I am more or less familiar with this history, as I have heard Mr. Fowler speak of it many times. I remember quite distinctly Aunt Alphy Montgomery, Uncle George’s widow, who visited often in Uncle Newton Montgomery’s home. Uncle George built the house where Mr. W.S. Harrison now lives. Perhaps you remember it as the John R. Gaines home on Fork Creek. Uncle George never resided in Sweetwater. He had been to Sweetwater on the day of his death and was shot while returning home. His horse came home. Uncle George didn’t fall from his buggy. Imagine the shock to his wife! The people of this vicinity decided to have revenge for the death of so worthy a citizen. Mr. Bob Carter, who owned the farm which Bob Hudson now owns, had some bloodhounds. Many friends gathered and, with the aid of these hounds, ! caught the man who did the deed. He went up a tree somewhere near East Sweetwater. He told the men if they would call off the dogs he would come down. They complied, and just as he hit the earth he began using a long knife he had concealed in his bosom, making attempts to slay other men in this party. A man named Turley fired on him. No Duncan was present. The man’s body was cremated on the spot. I do not recall his name. There was a fallen tree near; the men raised the top, threw the body under it, fired the brush and watched it burn. John Duncan, who was a notorious bushwhacker, in company with others of his band came to the Fowler home late one evening. Father was at the barn feeding, consequently they entered the house and left it a wreck. Uncle Wyley Kelso, who lived in the home, was a Union man. Next day he wrote the Federal general, who had headquarters at Loudon of this visit and had Father Fowler take the letter to Sweetwater and mail it. Before Father got! home, this general had sent a squad out in Piney, where Duncan lived, and the squad killed him. He fell in the lap of a woman who was wearing one of Mother Fowler’s silk dresses, stolen the night the band had entered the house. I could tell many horrible stories of the stormy days of 1865 and even later, but this is all past and gone.”