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• j Jatm m* Vo'yla* Tuinu*}**^ — U A. IfnUh:ir«\*-j ('Iins'lrston Itiot. \1\jtl), '* ho £•»lt; rilim^t onof the d\iU)]ical *cucir«c ^! of mibsucro that had been connected and was about to be enacted wrs received in the forenoon. A knot of brcllern of the “Mighty Host” wee collected at the i.erth-cat corner of the Court- house Square, engaged in disputation with a cit i/on named Marin I ltd. The prin-Ic?pal man in this knot, and ore of the leadersvof tho subsequent fight, was John Frazier, a prominent and wealthy farmer in tb*s county.In this place I give the sworn testimony of Mr. Mr. David Johnson, a citizen of undo jbt-ed voracity, who witnossed many oftfio important events of the day:David Johnson, being first dulv sworn, savs. I• w * SIn the forenoon, I saw a collection of people j appearent listening to some angry words betwen j John Frazier and Martin Hill. Heard Frasierptell Hill he had better k^ep still, for if they got f ^into a fight ho would get hurt, for they had\ycome with tl.e utei tiun of cleaning out acer-sitain crowd. There wfts a squad of fifteen or lt;twenty mou close by, all of whom appeard to j bo friends of Frazer and Wells. Henderson O’Hair stepped up to the crowd said. ‘‘Don’t •. ^one of you Dcraociats leave for we conic hero - i . . - hto attend to :!»*s thin;: and must stick right to- [ark*encgether. O'iI.ur then remarked iO Jumoa Me- j clt; Croy that the soldiers had been running over , ^ the citizens long enough, and wo aro going to J ^ clean them out,” I observed that nearly ev- j cry man had pistols. Just before the shooting j a commenced, I saw John Galbraith run to the cast door of the Court liouso, and ask two mon who were there if they bad tbeir pistols ready, and they said yos, Two other men then joined them, all fivo went to the west of thS Court-1 v house on a fast walk. Almost immediately af- j terward, the shooting commenced. (The wit- ( 0 ness then gives the names of some persons who j ^ wore firing upon the soldiers) I saw John Frazier come on horseback In the street, firing up-!0 lt;soldiers in ths square- When ho had erapt- * ied his revolver ho rode rapidly to the other j b side of the square, where he dismounted, went to a wagon and got a shot gun. Ho then wont to the fonco and again fired upon tho soldiers in the square. (The witness further testifies to seeing other persons, after they had dicharged their pieces, get other guns, ready-loaded, from wagon The wagons were in tho street, di-roctly behind the “line of battle” which the DnaurgenU Jbraed, or attempted to form,'along the side walks, faring the square, and afterward reformed in avdifferent direction.) When tfiiiyif- • j,were forming the'second*Hfinc I hoard ono ofthem shout in a loud voice; By G—d boys, tho town is ours. ♦ I• Ibvtlt;liai
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Marshall Flag Of Our Union
Marshall, Illinois, US
Fri, Apr 22, 1864
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