Trivia 8-15-16 Ambushed

[Trivia Master]

What confederate general fought in nearly all of the major battles of the eastern theater in the civil war and survived only to be ambushed and killed by an hired assassin 15 years later near his home?

credit: @Stony

 

[Reb]

Bryan Grimes, Jr.

 

[MRB1863]

Major General Bryan Grimes

https://nchistorytoday.wordpress.co...te-veteran-bryan-grimes-murdered-by-assassin/

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Thomas C. Hindman

Edit - Response revised in post # 12.

Hoosier

 

[GELongstreet]

Bryan Grimes.

 

[Wallyfish]

I am General Bryan Grimes.


In 1880, two local brothers hired William Parker to assassinate Grimes. The murder was apparently ordered to prevent Grimes from testifying in a criminal trial. Parker was captured and tried, but found not guilty of the murder.

Several years later, Parker, while drunk in a bar, boasted of killing General Grimes. A mob gathered that same night and hanged the assassin from a Pamlico River bridge. No one was ever indicted for Parker's murder. The coroner's report said that it was "death by hanging at the hands of parties unknown."

 

[Brenal]

Bryan Grimes.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Bryan Grimes

http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/grimes/bio.html

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

Bryan Grimes (November 2, 1828 – August 14, 1880) was a North Carolina plantation owner and a general officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He fought in nearly all of the major battles of the Eastern Theater of that war.
In 1880, Grimes was ambushed and killed in Pit County, North Carolina, by a hired assassin named William Parker, presumably to prevent him from testifying at a criminal trial.
source: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57827555

 

[DR_Hanna]

Bryan Grimes

 

[ErnieMac]

Bryan Grimes.

 

[Copperhead-mi]

I would like to change my answer from Thomas C. Hindman -who was assassinated in 1868- to Byran Grimes, Jr.

 

[kholland]

Major General Bryan Grimes

 

[Nathanb1]

Bryan Grimes

 

[adisciu9]

Gen. Bryan Grimes

 

[SD_CivilWarTvlr]

Maj. Gen. Bryan Grimes

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

Genl. Bryan Grimes

http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/grimes/bio.html

On the afternoon of 14 Aug. 1880, General Grimes was returning to Grimesland, in his buggy from "Little Washington," as it was then called, where he had been to attend the Beaufort County political convention and to take care of some business. His only companion was twelve-year-old Bryan Satterthwaite, the son of a neighbor. While they were crossing Bear Creek, approximately four miles from Grimesland, the gun of a concealed assassin was discharged, killing Grimes instantly. Young Satterthwaite drove to the nearest neighbor and received assistance in taking the dead man home. A few days later funeral services were held at Grimes's residence. After burial services at the Episcopal church, he was interred in the family burying grounds about three hundred yards from his residence.

The alleged cause of the assassination was to prevent Grimes from testifying in court about some criminal matter. One William Parker, described by the Raleigh News and Observer as a "sorry kind of a fellow with no particular occupation, and with a reputed bad character,"was arrested on suspicion of murder. The jury found him not guilty, however, and Parker was set free.

Except as a subject of conversation, the Grimes case lay dormant for the next seven years. What happened to Parker during this period is not known. At any rate, he was back in Washington on a Saturday night in early November 1888, when he got drunk and boasted that he had killed General Grimes. He was immediately picked up on a charge of drunkenness and placed in the Washington jail. Early the next morning, between ten and fifteen masked men entered the jail, took Parker out, and strung him up on the drawbridge across the Pamlico River. A coroner's jury assembled and returned a verdict of "death by hanging at the hands of parties unknown." Charges were never filed, and no serious effort was made to solve the new murder. The people had gaine

 

[DBF]

He was good friends in Arkansas with Patrick Cleburne - General Hindman.

 

[truthckr]

Bryan Grimes (November 2, 1828 – August 14, 1880) was a North Carolina planter and a general officer in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He fought in nearly all of the major battles of the Eastern Theater of that war.

Grimes was the last man in the Army of Northern Virginia to be appointed as a major general.[1] He also led the final attack of that army shortly before its surrender to Union forces at Appomattox Court House on the morning of April 9, 1865.

 

[Northern Light]

Major General Bryan Grimes (November 2, 1828 – August 14, 1880)

In 1880, Grimes was ambushed and killed in Pitt County, North Carolina, by a hired assassin named William Parker, presumably to prevent him from testifying at a criminal trial. Grimes had taken part in an attempt to deport immigrants, and was killed by their hitman.[5] Parker was later acquitted at his trial. However, a number of years later Parker returned to the area drunk and boasted of his killing Grimes but winning acquittal. He was arrested for drunk and disorderly. That night a mob entered the deserted jail house, grabbed Parker and lynched him. Nobody was ever tried for the act. Grimes was buried in the family cemetery on his plantation, Grimesland, about five miles northwest of Chocowinity, North Carolina. A monument (a cenotaph) to the fallen former Confederate stands in Trinity Churchyard Cemetery located in the village of Chocowinity.