Claiborne-Webster County Louisiana Archives News.....Pratt - Lewis Duel August 26, 1868
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The Shreveport South-Western August 26, 1868
Claiborne Parish, La., A duel - The Minden Democrat of the 21st, gives teh 
following account of a duel which came off in this parish, last week; A duel 
between Robert S. Lewis, Esq. and the Hon. C. B. Pratt, transpired at the old 
Overton Fields, two miles south of Minden, on the evening of the 18th inst. 
The weapons used were Colt's revolvers at twenty paces. Mr. Lewis was the 
challening party. Upon the second shot, Mr. Pratt received a flesh wound in 
the side, the ball penetrating just above the right hip and coming out before 
touching the spine. The wound, though painful is not dangerous. It is 
understood that the meeting occurred in consequece of Mr. Pratt's strictures 
and denunciation of Col. John L. Lewis (the father of Mr. R. S. Lewis), in a 
speech recently made in the House of Representatives - with which speech the 
public are acquainted, as it has appeared in several of the city and country 
papers. [The Shreveport South Western, Aug 26, 1868]

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