{"id":983,"date":"2013-11-10T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=983"},"modified":"2013-11-16T14:06:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T20:06:56","slug":"deadly-shooting-in-sweetwater-1867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/deadly-shooting-in-sweetwater-1867\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Shooting in Sweetwater (1867)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the 9th, a desperate encounter took place in the town of Sweetwater, east Tennessee, between <strong>Capt.<\/strong> <strong>William JENKINS<\/strong>, late of the C.S.A., and two brothers, named <strong>MCGAUGHEY<\/strong>, and a friend of theirs, in which all four of the combatants were killed. <strong>Capt.<\/strong> <strong>JENKINS<\/strong> was mortally wounded, but succeeded in terribly avenging himself before he died, as he, in rapid succession, fired a fatal shot at each of his assailants.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85033306\/1866-12-22\/ed-1\/seq-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 22 Dec. 1866, Page 2<\/a>. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 9th, a desperate encounter took place in the town of Sweetwater, east Tennessee, between Capt. William JENKINS, late of the C.S.A., and two brothers, named MCGAUGHEY, and a friend of theirs, in which all four of the combatants were killed. Capt. JENKINS was mortally wounded, but succeeded in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,651,43],"tags":[1015,1041],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-mcminn","category-monroe","tag-jenkins-william","tag-mcgaughey-mr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}