The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 30, July 1926 - April, 1927 Page: 193
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Extracts from the Reminiscence's of General Morgan 193
Never was there a more chivalrous duel and never did braver
men confront each other on the field of honor. But a dark cloud
has ever hung over the affair.
Early on the morning of the fight, whiskey made its appearance
in the camp, and kettles filled with it were passed from tent to
tent. Where it came from I do not know. I not only believe,
however, but I am morally certain that Felix Huston was wholly
ignorant of the fact. Nevertheless had Huston been killed, and
Johnston survived the encounter, the latter would never have lived
long enough to die at Shiloh; and the chances are that this narra-
tive would never have been written, for my gallant brother and
his men would have stood by Johnston and I would have died or
lived with them.
So deep was the abhorrence of the contemplated treason, that
strange as it may appear, no one alluded to it and now for the
first time in all these years I refer to the fact. I have never heard
it mentioned but once and that only a few years ago, when Jacob
Sappington, a member of my brother's company, who then did,
and may now, reside near Danville, Indiana, with his grandson,
made me a visit at my home. He told me that it was the first
time since the dark transaction that he had ever spoken of it, and
he did so, in a very few, solemn words.
Within two or three months after the Johnston-Houston duel,
mutiny again broke out in that Texas camp. My brother had
the good or evil fortune to be captain of the guard on the night
cf the rescue of the mutineers, who had been arrested, and were
in irons in the guard house.
Not long before, on a black and tempestuous night, when the
roar of each thunder peal had sounded like the discharge of a
park of Artillery-Colonel Teal, of the Regulars, was murdered
In his tent. On the day preceding that night, Colonel William
Cook, universally esteemed as one of the best citizens of Texas,
arrived at the camp, and became the guest of Colonel Teal, who
insisted on Cook's occuping his narrow cot, while he, Teal, wanted
to sleep upon his Buffalo robe spread on the ground. Teal was
the senior, and Cook refused to accept the courtesy, and by doing
so saved his own life.
Some time during the night, while the storm raged, the hour
and the name of the assassin have never been revealed-the mur-
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