This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dunovant, Eldridge Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/5792 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald – Thur., 21 August 1902 Trial - W. T. Eldridge, charged with the murder of Capt. Dunovant had an examining trial in Houston before Judge W. H. Wilson last Friday and bond was set at $25,000. Dunovant served in the Confederate army when but 15-years old in Evans’ brigade, McLaw’s division. His left arm was shattered at the second battle of Manasas and he lost his right arm at the battle of Petersburgh crater. He was an impetuous, overbearing man but was the soul of honor and integrity. In 1898 he was associated with Eldridge in the construction of the Cane Belt road and testimony showed there had been trouble between the two men for some time. At the primary election at Eagle Lake on July 19th, the two men met and Dunovant drew a revolver and a shooting melee was averted by the retreat of Eldridge. When Dunovant was shot, he had a revolver in his coat pocket and the supposition is that it hung when he attempted to draw it. It was turned sideways in his pocket and the hammer was faste! ned in the cloth.