Natchitoches County Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Terrett, Burton Ashton  October 24, 1874
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November 28, 1874
 
DIED.
 
On his plantation in this parish, at 4 o'clock P.M. on Saturday, October 24th, 
1874 of Acute Anemia, Capt. B. A. TERRETT, aged 32 years.
 
Capt. Terrett was one of the most promising young ment of our State, young, 
educated, the very sould of honor.  Life as opening up for him with all of its 
birght and luring hopes, when death came to his door.  During his last and 
fatal illness admist his sufferings and the distress of his family, nervous, 
weak and prostrated on his death bed, came the blood hounds of Marshal 
Packard, to summon him mto their bastile - his house was surrounded and the 
sanctity of his death chamber invaded by them.  Finding him too weak to be 
removed it was proposed to leave a guard over him, which the officer in 
command declined, leaving him on his  parole to report from time to time.
 
Thus he died a virtual prisoner to the U. S. deputy Marshal, prefering to 
return his noble sould to the great God who gave it, leaving his body to 
earthly changes and the darkness of the tomb. The parish and State have 
sustained an irreparable loss in his death, and to his bereaved family we 
tender our heartfelt sympathy.

We clip the above from the People's Vindicator, a paper published in the town 
and parish of Natchitoches, in the State of Louisiana, and edited by James H. 
Cosgrove, who, with many other citizens, is now suffering arrest and 
imprisonment by order of the above mentioned U. S. Marshal Packard, who is 
also chairman of the Republican Executive Committee of the State.  Thus passed 
away in manhood's early prime our very dear and intimate friend Burdett Ashton 
Terrett.  The family was originally from Fairfax county, Virginia, and were 
posessed of a decided military turn of mind, most of the male members having 
been officers in the regular service.  Three of his father's brothers fell 
upon the battle fields of Mexico, fighting for that flag which to his dying 
eyes was only the emblem of oppression and tyranny.  Fort Terrett, which may 
still be seen upon any of our maps. situated about 150 miles east of the Rio 
Graude [Grande?], was named in honor of one of these.  The father of Capt. 
Terrett was also an officer of the regular rmy, and was stationed at one time 
at old Camp Salubrity, about three miles from the town of Natchitoches, where 
he married.  He was killed by the accidental discharge of his pistol when 
dismounting from his horse.

Gen. Zach. Taylor, afterward the hero of Beuna [sic] Vista, and president of 
the United States, was also stationed there at this time, together with Gen. 
Twigg, Gen Pope, Gen. Don Carlos Buell, Capt. Charley May and may other since 
known to fame.  Gen Ulysses S. Grant, then Capt. Grant, was there for some 
time and is still well remembered by many of the old citizens.  The subject of 
this sketch was a cadet at West Point, when the first gun was fired at Fort 
Sumpter, and left with the other Southern students to join the Confederate 
army.  He was in the battle of Shiloh, where he received a severe wound in the 
arm.  On his return to duty he was promoted to the rank of Captain, and served 
as a staff officer until the close of the war, since which time he has been 
engaged in agriculture and literary pursuits.  He was endowed by nature with a 
superb physique and intellectual powers far above mediocrity.  About five 
years ago he married a niece of Gen. P. A. Morse, who was on the supreme bench 
of California, during the administration of Franklin Pierce, and is now U. S. 
commissioner in Louisiana, and of his brother Isaac Morse, a distinguished 
lawyer in New Hampshire.  Little did the writer of this think when he attended 
him on  that happy occasion in the capacity of groomsman, that his life was 
destined to so ssad an ending.  Little did we imagine that in a time of 
profound peace he was to die a prisoner in his own home, surrounded by Federal 
bayonets, in order that the detestable Kellogg usurpation might be upheld and 
that the accused pty with the people so emphatically condemned at the ballot 
box on November 2d, might be retained in power.  Heaven grant that such scenes 
as this may never more be repeated in any portion of our country.  The good 
people of the North have at last awakened to a full sense of these atrocities, 
and  the days of Grantism and carpet-bag reconstruction are numbered. - Tipton 
Weekly Record.
 



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