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The Daily Dispatch: August 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee Officer killed at Vicksburg. (search)
Col. A. B. Watts, who was noticed in your paper for his gallant conduct at Port Gibson, has again rendered his name a glorious one.--Just after the surrender of the city he went down to the landing to get a lemon from one of the boats, and had returned and was in the act of mounting his horse, when a Yankee captain, with a guard, informed him that the horse belonged to Uncle Sam. Capt. Watts informed him that he was an officer, and was entitled to his horse and side-arms. Whereupon Capt. Yank called him a d — d liar, and cursed him for some time, and commenced abusing the women of Vicksburg, and called them a d — d set of outcasts. Capt. Watts then drew his pistol and remarked to the Yankee that he hated to kill as mean a dog as he was, but his honor compelled him to do so, and fired, the ball entering the right breast and killing him. The guard cried out, "Kill the rebel!" "Cut him down!" Capt. Watts presented his pistol and said, in a very composed manner: "Proceed, gentleme