Major General Meade's Report on the Ashburn MurderGeorge W. Ashburn was a Georgia politician assassinated by the Ku Klux Klan in Columbus, Georgia for his pro-African-American sentiments. He was the first murder victim of the Klan in Georgia. |
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MAJOR GENERAL MEADES REPORT ON George Gordon 1815-1872 Meade,United States Army Dept of the South No preview available - 2016 |
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16th Infantry 1st Lieut Acting Assistant Adjutant Amanda Patterson arrested Ashburn was killed asked believe Betts Bill Dukes Bostock Brevet Brigadier Brigadier General C. C. Captain 16th Captain Mills cell Chipley Columbus Bedell Columbus prisoners Commanding Post confined conversation Court Democratic Department of Georgia door Duke fired Florida and Alabama Fort Pulaski George Betts GEORGE G HEADQUARTERS SUB-DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS THIRD MILITARY heard Hudson J. C. GREGG J. E. HOSMER Jim Barber Judge Advocate Kirkscey Kluxes knew letter Major Smyth Major Whitely mask Mayor Mayor Wilkins MEADE Muscogee County negro night Norah obedient servant Oglethorpe street party Perry House persons positive Post of Atlanta POST OF COLUMBUS prosecution Pulaski Questions R. C. DRUM recollect respectfully Signed spoke Stapler statement SUB-DISTRICT OF GEORGIA swear TELEGRAM tell THIRD MILITARY DISTRICT told TRUE COPY vacant lot wanted Wiggins WILLIAM MILLS witness Yes sir
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Page 52 - ... by his excellency the governor aforesaid to grant such permit or license, and without having taken the oath to support and defend the constitution and laws of the state of Georgia, and uprightly to demean themselves as citizens thereof, contrary to the laws of said state, the good order, peace and dignity thereof.
Page 37 - I was of the opinion that the trial of all civil prisoners illicit be and should be left to the civil authorities on the admission of the State. Since my arrival, owing to the developments in the...
Page 12 - ... murderers. I did not send any board to investigate because Mills and his subordinates were doing everything it was practicable to do. I have been fully alive to the necessity of action, but am waiting till I see the time when action will be available. Captain Mills has made some ten arrests, principally of people whom he has reason to believe have knowledge of the perpetrators of the deed. I have sent Major...
Page 11 - G. MEADE, Commanding Third Military District : Will it not be well to extend the number of days the polls are to be kept open at the Alabama election, in order to give full opportunity to all who register to vote! Two days will hardly give sufficient time.
Page 32 - ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, " Washington, January 4, 1870. " By direction of the President of the United States, so much of General Orders No. 103, dated headquarters third military district, (department of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama,,) Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1^68 ; and so much of General Orders No.
Page 12 - ... practicable to do. I have been fully alive to the necessity of action, but am waiting till I see the time when action will be available. Captain Mills has made some ten arrests, principally of people whom he has reason to believe have knowledge of the perpetrators of the deed. I have sent Major Smythe, of the Judge Advocate General's department, to assist in the investigation, and have written to Mills to gçt his judgment on expediency of making removals of the civil officers.
Page 51 - W. Barber, William A. Duke, Robert Hudson, William D. Chipley, Alva C. Roper, James L. Wiggins, Robert A. Wood, Henry Hennis, Herbert W. Blair, and Milton Malone, on the 31st day of March, 1868, in the city of Columbus, in the county of Muscogee, State of Georgia, in and upon one George W. Ashburn, then and there being in the peace of the said State, feloniously and willfully did make an assault; and did then and there feloniously, unlawfully, willfully, and with malice aforethought, discharge pistols...
Page 8 - Iras, reports he is doing everything in co-operation with the civil authorities to detect and arrest the murderers, and if any are caught I intend trying them by militarv commission.
Page 52 - Elisha J. Kirkscey, Columbus C. Bedell, James W. Barker, William A. Duke, Robert Hudson, William D. Chipley, Alva C. Roper, James L. Wiggins, Robert A. Wood, Henry Hennis, Herbert W. Blair and Milton Malon.
Page 50 - HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, January 4, 1870. ' By direction of the President of the United States, so much of General Orders No 103, dated...