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(MAIN SERIES) 1871 -1880 Roll 67, 1872 Papers relating to crimes committed by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, 1869 - 1879 Hd. Qrs. Camp at McClungs Spring Reports that John Henry Evans arrived in Camp and reported that Willis Stevens has a Co. of 34 colored men, and that he had a skirmish with some white men called K. K. K. one white man killed, one (col'd) wounded, when he left the fight was still going on and requests assistance. Hd. Qrs. Camp at McClung Springs Lieut. James Ulio/ 2nd Infty.
Sir: I have the honor to report that John Henry Evans has this moment arrived in Camp, and reports that he had to fly yesterday from Wild Goat Cove, said to be distant from here about 12 miles and 5 miles from Vienna, that Willis Stevens a white man had a company of about 34 colored men, that he had a skirmish with some white men who call themselves K. K. K. one of the white men, Willis Monroe Evans, was killed, one colored man, Henry Rivers, wounded, and the fight was still going on when Evans left. The man who was killed was brother of the man who carried the news, and from what I can learn he also belongs to the K. K. K. and Stevens is after him. They sent to me for assistance. I await the General's instructions in the case. I Am Very Respy., P. S. H. McL. A true copy Hd. Qrs. Camp at McClungs Spring - August
26, 1869 Reports that in compliance with note from Genl. Crawford he started for Vienna to quell any disturbance if any existed & upon arriving at Vienna the people were excited so the Evanses were about 2 miles from town and had threatened to burn it - about a half dozen of the inhabitants mounted and drove the desperadoes out of Madison Co. and encloses the result of his labor. Head Qrs. Camp at McClungs Springs Lieut. James Ulio, 2nd Inf. Sir: I have the honor to report that about
3 o'clock on the morning of the 25 instant I received Genl. Crawford's
I am Sir Very Respy. A true copy Shanult Plantation near Paint Rock, Alabama Henry Rivers makes affidavit in regard to his being shot by Benjamin Evans on the 23 Aug. 1869 On the 23rd day of August 1869
I was returning from my brothers to where I live, about two miles and
one half from Deposit towards Vienna, two men met me on the road, one
of them was white, the other a mulatto. I believe that the white man's
name was Benjamin Evans, the colored man's name was Bob Ice. The white
man cocked his rifle and fired at me, the ball passing through my thigh.
I never gave the man any provocation to shoot me. Witness Milton G. Young Sworn and subscribed before me an officer
of the United States Army at Shanult Plantation near Paint Rock this A True Copy McClungs Spring, Ala. W. C. Stephens makes affidavit in regard to endeavoring to arrest W. M. Evans, John Evans, Robert Ice, Burgers Finnell and Green Horton on the 21st Aug./69 for disguising themselves and going to a house and forcibly taking a shotgun. On the 21st August 1869 I had
a warrant and tried to arrest on it W. M. Evans, John Evans (white), Robert
Ice (col'd), Burgers Finnell & Green Horton (colored). I arrested
Finnell and Horton, I also arrested Evans, W. M., but he succeeded in
getting away. The warrant for arrest was issued against the above named
men for disguising themselves and going to the house of N. Stevens (my
father) and forcibly taking from him a shotgun. On Monday last the 23rd
of August I summoned about twenty men as a posse (they were white and
black) and tried to arrest W. M. Evans (white) and Bob Ice (colored) they
were at Squire Bronson's at Wild Goat Cove, I surrounded the house but
they broke and ran out the back part of it, accompanied by Ben Evans,
his brother. They were halted by a colored man (one of my posse) named
Elliott Cottrell, when L. A. Bronson leveled his gun and fired at Cottrell,
wounding him slightly. Cottrell & others then fired, shooting W. M.
Evans in the arm. The parties then got away, and up to this date I have
not succeeded in arresting them. All of this was at Wild Goat Cove near
Fearns Ferry, Alabama. Witness: H. Morrow Sworn and subscribed to before me an officer
of the United States Army at McClungs Spring, Ala. August the A True Copy |