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Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 24 March 1875
THE TORNADO

Further Accounts of its Effects

Heart Rending and Appalling Scenes

A Striking Incident of Woman's Devotion

The Power of Prayer

Debris of Ruins Carried Miles by the Tempest

Full List of the Killed and Wounded

By Telegraph and Mail to the Constitution

Augusta, March 23-Eight counties in Georgia and three in South Carolina need 
relief from the effects of the tornado.  The list of the killed and wounded is 
appalling.

COURSE OF THE STORM
The march of the tornado was west from Harris County, across Talbot, Upson, 
Monroe, Jones, Baldwin, Hancock, Glascock, McDuffie and Columbia, touching 
Richmond also, and passing into Carolina.

IN HARRIS COUNTY
The tornado seems to have commenced on the east side of the mountain this side 
of Hamilton, Harris county, passed Mount Airy and Raughaville, Talbot County.

Mr. Cannon, of Harris County, lost five children and his wife and two other 
children were badly hurt.  He was not at his house at the time, but knowing 
that his family was in danger he was struggling to get to them when he met the 
bodies of two of his little daughters being carried along by the cyclone.

The store of Mr. Sparks in Harris county was demolished and his goods blown 
away.  His calicoes, oanaburgs, and other goods are now fluttering from the 
limbs of trees outside the track of the storm.

IN TALBOT COUNTY
There seems to have been two cyclones-one in the northwest part of the county 
and the other in the middle part.

As the storm neared Talbotton, it became more furious.  Mr. W. J. Raine's 
dining room was blown down and a little daughter was badly hurt.  Elisha 
Culpepper was killed and his wife and daughter badly hurt; a young man by the 
name of Crawford was killed; A. B. O'Neil's houses were all blown away; J. B. 
Gorman's mill and gin are all gone; J. H. Walton had his houses all unroofed, 
but some of his family were hurt; J. A. C'ements had his house blown down, and 
all the family in it were covered with timber, but no one was hurt; H. 
Trussel's houses were all blown down, and their furniture and clothing were all 
blown away.

Mrs. Culpepper found her husband crushed under a sill.  With superhuman 
strength she lifted the immense piece of lumber from his body, only to find him 
crushed to death.  No two men in the county could lift the piece of timber 
under ordinary circumstances.

At Baugh's shop the academy, church, and the residences of Messrs. Baugh, 
Calhoun, Wilson and Jones were all blown down and away.

Mr. Clements, when he saw the storm coming, gathered his family together in a 
corner of one room of his house and began to pray.  The house was lifted off 
and utterly ruined, but no one of his family was hurt.

Near a little place called Red Bone, Mr. Robert Bryant's house was blown down 
and his arm was broken, his wife seriously injured, and a little niece who was 
boarding with him had her leg broken.

The cyclone passed about a mile and a half off Talbotton, but the cloud was 
plainly seen, and its roar dintinct'y heard.  Mr. Mound who was twelve miles 
off heard the roar with great distinction.  John B. Gorman's mill and gin were 
utterly ruined.  His dam was damaged by the wind and his millstones were blown 
twenty feet from their position.

IN MONROE COUNTY

Near the Towaliga river, the hail stones which fell were large and fell with 
such force as to wound men and animals caught outside of shelter.  The premises 
of Mr. Early Cleveland lay in the track of the tornado, and his place left in 
ruins.  His dwelling-house was not seriously damaged, but every out-house with 
two exceptions was either partially or totally destroyed.  He had a large 
number of out-houses, and the loss will amount to fully fifteen hundred 
dollars.  Six horses and two mules were in the lot, where there were several 
buildings, barns and stables.  These houses were so completely wrecked and the 
timbers were blown about freely, but strange to say not one of the horses or 
mules was injured.  No personal injury was sustained by any of the family; but 
several narrow escapes were made.

Near the High Fall the storm was very severe.  Mr. Wm. Childs, son of Mr. White 
Childs, of Jones, had been with his wife some distance from home in a buggy and 
was returning when the storm and rain came.  The party took shelter under the 
gin house of Mr. John Ham, where they had not remained long, when they saw the 
house falling.  Mrs. Childs tried to escape, but running in the direction the 
wind was blowing, she was caught by the falling house and covered with the 
debris.  Mr. Childs, together with the horse which he was holding, was also 
buried in the ruins.  Fortunately for him the timbers fell across his feet and 
was able to call for assistance.  A negro came to his relief, and succeeded in 
getting him out with no injury except bruises across his ankles.  He told the 
negro that his wife was under the ruins and was doubtless dead.  The negro 
pulled off the roof and flooring in several places before finding her.  She had 
been caught by the falling timbers, one large piece laying across her feet and 
another across her body.  She was unconscious, but recovered consciousness when 
carried home and was able to tell some of the particulars of the accident.  She 
lies in a critical condition.  The horse was killed and the buggy smashed into 
fragments.

On the Russelville road, a short distance from Forsyth, several houses in which 
negroes were living were partially or wholly destroyed.  The roof was taken 
from a house, leaving a negro woman exposed to the rain.

IN JONES COUNTY

In the upper part of the county, near the Putnam line, the residence of Mr. Wm. 
Gore was destroyed.  Mr. Gore was badly injured and Mrs. Hothe (?), a widowed 
sister, was killed.

IN BALDWIN COUNTY
The tornado swept across Milledgeville from west to east, over the southern 
limit, prostrating everything before it.  In a pathway of about one hundred 
yards in which houses were literally demolished, and many persons killed and 
wounded.  The broad apex of the funnel-formed demon of the cloud floated 
rapidly along, probably at the rate of more than a hundred miles an hour; and 
the narrow base which touched the earth lifted up and destroyed everything in 
its path.  The handsome gothic cottage recently purchased by Mr. Edward Lane 
was utterly demolished and blown away.

Seven are wounded on the plantation belonging to the McComb estate, and every 
house but one on the place, in ruins.  Dusters are being sent for from over the 
country.  Two are reported killed on Mr. Jas. Martin's place, and every house 
in ruins.  Others are probably injured on the place.  Two are reported killed 
on the road between town and the lunatic asylum.  Others are so badly wounded 
that they will probably die.

The lots of --------[cut off]
Injured.  On the place of Mr. Richard Brown, the destruction was terrible.  Mr. 
Brown's skull is fractured and he is lying insensible and will probably die.  
Here, also, three others were killed-two negro women and a negro child.  One of 
the former was killed by a falling houseshed, every house on Mr. Brown's place 
was destroyed and every person on the place was injured.  Should Mr. Brown die 
(and we see no hope of his recovery,) it will make an aggregate of four killed 
on this farm.

On the plantation of Mr. Charles Harper, ___ are reported killed, among them 
____ Tom Huson, colored.  On the Midway place of Mr. Robert Trippe, a negro 
child was killed.  In this locality the wind did great damage.  On the east 
side of the river, the damage is also very great.  Many plantations are almost 
completely ruined.  _____ chimneys, timbers and forests have been leveled 
wherever the wind passed.

Mrs. Stappleton, on the McComb place had her scalp severely lacerated and her 
life is seriously in danger from concussion of the brain.  A Great deal of 
poultry was killed and people are gathering it up for food.  The loss and 
damage to property, including the damage consequent upon the loss of fences, 
will probably amount to $175,000.  In one locality between Midway and town, 
eight houses are total wrecks.  Mr. Edward Lane, Mrs. Wm. Lane and Mr. Joseph 
Lane, all belonging to one family, have suffered most.  Each of them owned a 
dwelling, two of which were completely demolished.

The killed and dying are known to be ten in number.  The wounded will probably 
reach forty-five in Baldwin county alone.

The course of the cyclone seems to have varied.  At first, it seems to have 
come from north of west, crossing the Macon and Augusta railroad near Haddock’s 
station.  It then traveled east until getting nearly to town, when it made a 
bow and passed around the city. It then continued on its eastward course until 
it had gotten about ten miles beyond the river when it seems to have taken a 
northeasterly direction and recrossed the Macon and Augusta railroad between 
Cary’s and Devreaux’s stations. 

On Mr. Robert Harper’s place two negroes were killed, two mortally wounded and 
several more seriously injured.  There were no white persons on the place.

IN HANCOCK COUNTY

The details of the calamity on Mr. S. D. Massey’s place, near Sparta, are most 
pitiful.

There were sixteen houses on Mr. Massey’s place, and of them all there is not 
one piece of timber left upon another.  His residence was built of hewn logs, 
weather-boarded outside and ceiled on the inside.  Some of these logs were 
blown in a distance of a mile and a half, and shingles on the roof were blown 
to the distances of several miles.

When he saw the storm coming, Mr. Massey made a frantic effort to save his wife 
and child.  He ran into the house and elzing them attempted to get them out of 
doors, but before he reached the door the walls were crushed in.  He thrust 
them toward the door and was himself caught in the timbers.  When the storm had 
passed he discovered his wife lying near him with her brains crushed out.  His 
child, an only one, about two years old, he found in the garden with a fearful 
hole torn in its side.  It was dead.  Miss Sallie Berry had been blown into the 
top of a pine tree, which had fallen near by.  Her legs were broken in seven 
places and she was otherwise awfully mangled.  She lived four hours.  A negro 
man on the place ran to the nearest house for help, and when neighbor arrived 
they found Mr. Massey, who was badly hurt, sitting beside his dead wife, with 
his dead child in his arms and the dying girl lying hear him.  No words can 
describe the horror of the spectacle.  A negro woman, on this place had her 
knee broken and her right arm is so badly hurt that amputation will be 
necessary.

A field in which the wheat was six inches high, and a broom sedge field, were 
cleaned as bare as if they had been burned and the ashes swept off.  A covey of 
partridges was found dead near the house, two dead rabbits were found in the 
yard, and all the chickens, rats and cats on the place were also killed.  The 
skirts of Mr. Massey’s coat were blown off, and his shoes and socks were blown 
from his feet and have not yet been found.  The injuries to his person are very 
severe.  A considerable amount of money which he had in the house was blown 
away, so was all his silver, in fact everything even down to his clothing.  He 
had to borrow clothing from his neighbors.  

The places of Mr. Thomas Little and Mr. Carpenter were badly torn to pieces, 
and a number of negroes wounded.

The following houses and plantations were wrecked in Hancock county:  John T. 
Massey’s.  His wife and child and a Miss Singleton were killed.  The houses of 
Jessie Reynold’s, Carter P. Whaley, G. T. Rhodes, including two fine orchards 
were totally destroyed.

IN GLASCOCK COUNTY

In Glascock County the loss of life and property was immense.  It is reported 
that thirty-five persons were killed.  Mt. Zion M.E. Church, four miles below 
Gibson, was struck by the tornado about 1 o’clock and totally demolished.  Much 
property was destroyed in the same vicinity.  The dwelling of Mr. Mathis, an 
old citizen of the county, was blown down, and Mr. Mathis, his wife and 
children killed.  Mr. Vincent Davis’ house, one or two miles from Mr. Mathis’, 
was destroyed and Mr. Davis killed.  Sunday, while Dr. Barton was preaching at 
Zoar church, he received a message from J. L. Usry seven miles below Gibson, 
asking for help, as sixty persons had been killed and wounded in that 
vicinity.  Another man reported that twenty-five or thirty had been killed.  
Hail five or six inches long fell.

It is rumored that from eight to thirty were killed and fifty wounded.  Mount 
Moriah camp ground was demolished, and it is reported that out of a family of 
eight living there, there were seven killed.

IN WARREN COUNTY

When the tornado swept over that section Saturday evening, the members of the 
Baptist congregation were holding their usual Saturday afternoon services at 
Elam church, a short distance from Camak.  The storm struck the building before 
the people could perceive their danger, and leveled it to the earth.  Three 
persons were found dead among the ruins, and many made narrow escape from 
death.  A great many were injured by the falling timbers.  The number of 
wounded is put as high as twenty-five though doubtless many of these were only 
slightly injured.

The following are the reported casualities:
Young Pilcher, at first reported dead, was not injured at all.  Mrs. Louis 
Jones was killed.  Mrs. S. Robinson, Mrs. Martha Howell and Benjamin P. 
Atkinson were dangerously wounded.  F. Turner had his jaw bone broken.  Mrs. T. 
J. Pilcher had her arm broken.  Lewis Jones had his head and face wounded.  W. 
C. Barksdale, Robert Barksdale, Sterling Avery, Mrs. Katherine Nelson, H. W. 
Nelson, W. A. Anderson, Mrs. Hubert, Mrs. Atchinson, J. S. Dozier, Rev. J. 
Wellington and three others of the congregation were slightly wounded.

The storm crossed the Ogeechee two miles and a half above Mayfield and struck 
and demolished the Linn place.  Then it reached Mrs. Virginia Hubert’s in 
Warren county, killing three and wounding two negroes.  The negroes were blown 
from their homes for half a mile into a field.  It demolished Elam church.  The 
next houses destroyed were John W. Hubert'’, Mrs. Catherine Nelson’s, R. W. 
Nelson’s, Rev. T. J. Pilcher’s.  It then jumped a distance of three miles and 
demolished Camak.

IN MCDUFFIE COUNTY

There were two different tornadoes.  One came directly from Milledgeville, 
traveling almost due east, veering a little in the north, passing through 
Hancock, Warren, McDuffie, Columbia and crossing the Savannah river near the 
mouth of Uchee creek; the other coming from the direction of Foot Valley, 
passing through the lower edge of Hancock, the centre of Glascock [unreadable]
Columbia county and struck and demolished the house of John Bartlett, killed 
his child and wounded several others.  It destroyed the farms of George Dorsey, 
Da___ [unreadable], George [unreadable] Baston.  At Appling it demolished the 
house of Dr. Wiley(?) wounding Miss ____ mortally.  ____ ____ ____ place on the 
Petersburg road, fifteen miles from Augusta, the tornado swept away 
everything.  The negro quarters were completely demolished and eight or ten 
negroes killed.  A number were also wounded.  Mr. Ellis Walton’s house near 
that of Mrs. J___ Walton was picked up by the wind, carried forty feet and set 
in the middle of the road.  One of Mr. Walton’s children was killed.

At Mr. George Gray’s place every vestige of the highway was obliterated.  Trees 
were blown down, fences carried entirely away, and the face of the country left 
a desolate waste.  Mr. Gray’s place is on the Thompson road, about two miles 
from Appling.  At the court house the cyclone raged with terrific violence.  
The court house itself, one of the finest in the country, was badly damaged.  
One end was blown in.  The ordinary was in the building at the time.  Mr. Wm. 
Benton, who was in the court house, also was badly bruised.  His horse, 
standing outside, was killed.  The school house, Methodist and Baptist churches 
were demolished.  A Mr. McCay was driving his wagon along the road when the 
storm struck him.  He was blown some distance from his team and had his 
shouldered severely fractured.  At Mr. George Gray’s a colored child was picked 
up by the wind and carried sixty yards, at least, from the house and dashed to 
death.

Mrs. Walton’s dwelling was one of the costliest and handsomest houses in 
Columbia county.  The loss here will be very great.  On this place the loss of 
life was absolutely fearful.  Three negroes were killed and from twenty to 
twenty-five wounded, some of the injuries sustained being of a very savage 
character.

On Dr. Hamilton’s place the damage was also heavy.  Ten houses and all the 
barns, stables, etc. were destroyed.  Edmund Kelly had his arm broken.  Two 
more negroes have died at Mr. J. E. Smith’s place.  One hundred thousand 
dollars will not cover the damage.  The suffering is very great.  The people 
are without houses and as many as twenty persons, some of whom are wounded are 
huddled together in small houses.

IN RICHMOND COUNTY

In the 124th district of Richmond county, 14 miles from Augusta, the 
destruction was great.  The path of the tornado was about six hundred yards 
wide at its widest point and two hundred at its narrowest.  An eye witness who 
was some distance outside the extreme limit describes the scene as fearfully 
grand.  The cyclone was a cylindrical shape and rotated with fearful velocity.  
It would rise to a dizzy height and then swoop down like a bird of prey with 
with terrific force, tearing up trees, grass, fencing and everything else as it 
struck the earth.  A large dead tree was picked up and carried end over end 
across a field, for three-quarters of a mile.  Fending was whirled through the 
air and lodged in the middle of the fields.  Huge trees were uprooted like 
reeds grasped by the mighty powers of the air, and carried with immense 
velocity hundreds of yards.  At. Col. A. C. Walker’s plantation, sixteen houses 
were destroyed.  At Mr. Barney Greiner’s three buildings including the barn 
were demolished.  Mr. Henry Kelly’s houses were all blown down.  At Mr. John 
Elliot’s the tornado struck the dwelling and tore it down.  Mrs. Elliot was 
sick in bed.  The timbers fell upon the bed crushing it, but did not injure 
her.  She was taken out of the ruins sometime afterwards.  Her husband was at 
Mr. Kelly’s.  The house of the latter was blown down, but nobody hurt.  One of 
the walls was upheld by a bedstead and thus prevented from crushing Mr. Kelly’s 
children.  The storm struck Mr. T. F. Branch’s place and demolished several 
small houses.  Sawed shingles from the houses were carried four miles.  Several 
buildings on Mr. Collins’ place were demolished.  Two colored churches were 
destroyed.  The loss of property is very great.  The storm crossed the river, 
passed into Beach Island and played terrible havoc at Mr. Foreman’s place.  
Every house and fence was leveled and five negroes killed.  It is probable that 
there were other disasters at the island.

IN SOUTH CAROLINA

Between Williston and Windsor on the South Carolina railroad, the tornado 
accumulated great damage.

At Mr. Woodruff’s place the only houses left standing was the store.  Out of 
twenty laborers on this place only three escaped unhurt.  Five were killed and 
fourteen wounded-all colored.  It was reported that Mr. Kelly’s wife and child 
were killed and Mr. Kelly’s right arm broken.  Mr. Kelly’s place is also 
between Williston and Windsor.

At Mr. George W. Turner’s place, eight miles the other side of Graniteville, 
all the buildings were blown down and his wife’s arm was broken.  Dr. Jenning’s 
buildings were destroyed and his son-in-law’s leg was broken and three mules 
killed.  The Catholic church at Aiken was demolished and several of the 
pictures carried several hundred yards by the wind.

From Columbia county the storm crossed the river at Fury’s ferry, sunk the 
ferry boat, tore the top of Mr. Dearmon’s house and passed on into Edgefield 
county.  The Currytown section in that county was completely desolated.  Dr. H. 
A. Shaw who was in the city yesterday, reports that the destruction was 
terrible.  All but two houses on General M. C. Butler’s plantation were 
destroyed.  At Mr. Jas. Callahan’s six houses were levelled.  At Mrs. Tilman’s 
nineteen buildings, including the gin house and screw were blown down.  At 
Joseph Thurmond’s all except two negro houses were destroyed.  Mr. John Briggs 
resided sided in a handsome brick house.  The top of this was torn off and the 
house otherwise injured.  

All except two small houses on this place were destroyed, and two negroes, one, 
a child, killed.  Loss fully $5000.  No fencing is left on the place.  At Mr. 
George Turner’s the tornado was terrific in the extreme.  Fences, houses and 
trees were swept away like straws.  The gin house and screw were both 
demolished.  At Mr. Whitlock’s place the gin house, screw, and other buildings 
were destroyed.  Mr. James Holly was crushed and it is supposed that his 
injuries will prove fatal.  All the houses on Mr. Joe Willin’s place, near the 
Charlotte Columbia and Augusta railroad, were destroyed.  Mr. Robert Butler’s 
mill dam, just across the river, was washed away.  The water came upon it like 
a solid wall and towered above it.

DESCRIPTION OF THE TORNADO

Those who viewed it from the south describe it as being densely black, while 
all who viewed it from the opposite direction agree to describing it as being 
____ as flame.  It was funnel shaped, with the point rotating upon the ground, 
and its broad top melting in the distance where the eye could not reach.  It 
moved with a lumbering sound, as if thousands of pieces of artillery were 
pouring an ____ ____ upon the earth.  One gentleman says if every cannon in the 
world had been fired simultaneously and incessantly, the roar could not have 
equalled that of the wind.

Never was such a tornado felt in Georgia.  The front cloud was pitch black, 
half a mile high, and half a mile wide.  It was barrel shape at times, and at 
times it took the form of a half moon, revolving north to south.  The roar was 
illuminated with a lurid, phosphorescent, but wholly unnatural light.  It 
traveled at the rate of seventy miles per hour.  It was flanked on the north 
and south sides with dense clouds that stood out in bold relief alone.  It 
demolished each plantation in twenty seconds.  It was accompanied by a sound as 
of five hundred cannon in the decisive ____ of pitched battle.  Not a drop of 
rain fell from it, but a great rain storm came up three hours afterward and 
deluged the earth accompanied by hail, wind, thunder and lightning.

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being about ____ and the breadth of the main column not exceeding 400 yards.  
The senses were utterly deadened, appalled.  There was a crash, a roar, the 
mingling of a hundred terrific and unknown sounds, the glass, shattered by the 
mere force of the wind, were thrown across the rooms with force enough to 
penetrate the flesh; the shutters were wrenched from their hinges.

Of five hundred noble oaks that had withstood the storms of a century not a 
half dozen were left standing, and of that host of oaks ____ ____ ____ ____ but 
a solitary one stands defiantly over the graves of its brethren.  A negro man 
who saw the tornado cross at Furry’s Ferry says it was a ____ ____ ____ ____ 
____ ____ shingles and limbs of trees, whirling along at a tremendous speed.

In Baldwin county a shingle was driven, sharp end foremost, several inches into 
the body of a small oak tree it happened to strike directly.  The lifeless 
negro woman was found lodged in the branches of a lofty tree not exactly in the 
hurricane’s path; and a child of the same race was blown away and has not been 
found at all.  Dick Gunder was killed by having the upper half of his head cut 
off smoothly by a plank driven with the wind, and the missing top of his head 
has not been found.

Mr. Brown was found with his head under a heavy plate.  His skull was fractured 
six inches.  Mrs. Brown was severely bruised, but their child, a little boy six 
year old, was unhurt.  Three negroes on this place were killed.  One woman was 
blown 150 yards through the woods and was broken and mangled fearfully.  A 
child was blown from the arms of one of the women, and its body had not been 
found up to the time that our informant left.  ____ entrails were found in the 
woods on Sunday, which, in the opinion of Dr. Hardeman, were those of the child.

In crossing the river, the wind lifted the water up in a solid mass until it 
seemed a perfect wall of water.  Charles J____, a man employed by Colonel 
Johnson, was hauling a load of lumber to town from Scotsboro, and seeing the 
danger hastily unhitched the horses.  The wind picked the horses up and dashed 
them against the ground, injuring them quite severely.  Charles, the driver, 
sustained a painful injury – the wagon and lumber were blown away.  A goat on 
the plantation of Colonel Fair was blown off, as was all the poultry.  Small 
rocks were blown with such force that they were imbedded in trees and are still 
to be seen there.

In Columbia county, little Charlie Avery had his clothes stripped from his body 
by the wind and coarse sand driven against his naked form with such force as to 
enter his flesh.  The grains were afterwards picked out.

Mr. Edwards saw stones that were imbedded in trees by the violence of the wind 
and a shingle which struck a telegraph pole penetrated through the pole and 
remains there with an end projecting either way.

THE CASUALITIES

As far as ascertained we give the list of casualties:

Harris county – Killed:  John Todd, wife and five children, Mrs. John Cannon, 
three daughters, two sons, two daughters of Hilliard Pitts.  Wounded:  Dr. 
Peters and family, E. Brannon, Charlie Hunt.

Talbot county – Killed:  W. J. Raines’ daughter; Elisha Culpepper, Mr. 
Crawford.  Wounded:  Mrs. Culpepper and daughter, Robert Bryant wife and niece.

Monroe county – wounded – Mrs. W. Childs

Jones county – Killed – Mrs. Horne, three negroes whose names are not 
reported.  Wounded – W. Gore

Baldwin county – Killed – Mrs. Thomas Johnson, Dick Gonder (col.), Tom Huston, 
(col), and 6 or 8 negroes names not given.  Wounded – R. Brown, Mrs. Stapleton, 
and ten or twelve negroes.

Hancock county – Killed:  Mrs. Mrs. S. D. Massey, child and Miss Berry.  
Wounded – S. D. Massey and negro woman.

Glascock county – killed – Mr. Mathis, wife and five children; Vincent Davis, 
Mrs. Johnson and two of Mr. Kitchen’s family.

Warren county – Killed, Thomas Geesling, Mrs. Lewis Jones, and several 
negroes.  Wounded – S. B. Fielding, T. C. Kuelter (?), Edward Skinner, Albert 
Tamison, Mrs. Wright, five daughters and two sons, Mrs. S. Robinson, Mrs. 
Martha Howell, B. P. Atkinson, F. Turner; Mrs. T. J. Pitcher, Lewis Jones, W. 
C. Barksdale, Starling Avery, Mrs. Katherine Nelson, R. W. Nelson, W. A. 
Anderson, Mrs. Hubert, Mrs. Atchison, J. S. Dozier, Rev. J. Wellington and 
several negroes.

McDuffie county – Killed Mr. Dorsey and five or six negroes.  Wounded, J. T. 
Stovall and several negroes.

Columbia County – Killed, Miss Malone, Miss Maggie Hally, Mr. Walton’s child, 
Mr. Bartlett’s child, and fifteen or sixteen negroes.  Wounded, W. Benton and 
twenty five negroes.

According to reports, the killed foot up about 100, and wounded 123.


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