JPK Huson 1863
Brev. Brig. Gen'l
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2012
- Location
- Central Pennsylvania
She looks harmless. It's a pre-war image dripping elegance and probably a lot of money. Eliza Nichols, wife of a plantation owner ( Phillip ) near Harrisonburg, Catahouia Parish in Lousiana also carried a pistol somewhere. She shot her neighbor.
I realize this may belong in a different forum ( and feel free to move ). The thing is, a long, tragic and brutal feud began when a woman shot the man she felt had insulted her. Kaboom. I'm certain our experts can find a lot of erroneous stuff in the account here- I poked around and as usual it's impossible to get an accurate read on all the ' What Happened ' without getting contrary information. Found this one- seems fairly objective. Like all feuds, no one won.
Hatfield/McCoy, Lee/Peacock- Liddell/Jones. Famous feuds linger as the stuff of legend, single common factor would be the amount of blood on both sides. No one holds the prize for best grudge holder- these are stories taking place in the southern portion of our country but it's cold up here. You'd have to bundle up a large portion of the year to pursue a feud.
It's a long story. Aren't all feuds? For the sake of brevity, a quick background. When the Grant administration announced the appoint of Cuthbert Jones to an important position all heck broke loose. His background story apparently included an indictment for murder and he was living elsewhere and was considered by many to be a fugitive from justice. So not an ideal candidate. Apparently the feud began well before his birth, passed through a whole war and resumed on the side. Had Cuthbert not been presented as candidate to this position the entire feud would have passed unnoticed except locally. We've never been happy with scandal associated with high office. This one had dead bodies in its wake.
Liddell forever insisted he had no knowledge of what Eliza had in mind much less that she carried a pistol. Hang on.
Here's what's so weird. Eliza and Phillip seem the main players, she as the insulted woman, he as the husband who should have been the one in a snit. It became the Jones-Liddell feud, not the Jones-Nichols. Huh.
There were quite a few other actors in the drama and more than one death of men whose names were neither Jones, Liddell or Nichols.
I ' think ' Charles Jones was 2nd in command of the 17th Louisiana? If that's wrong, please do correct it. Liddell was eventually a general- some military training although his experience at West Point was only one year. St. John Richardson Liddell was terrific friends with Davis.
Next post, the rest of this war sandwich.