Robert H. Crain letter, 1827.

Wells, Samuel Levi, III.

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Maddox, Thomas Harris

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Thomas H. Maddox (fl. 1827) was involved in a duel with Monfort Wells (fl. 1827) which lead to the Sand Bar fight near Natchez, Miss., in 1827. From the guide to the Thomas H. Maddox Papers, ., undated, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Crain, Robert H.

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The Sandbar Fight developed at a duel between Samuel Levi Wells III and Dr. Thomas Maddox on a Mississippi River sandbar near Natchez, Miss., on September 19, 1827. After the principals had exchanged shots without effect, a melee developed among their supporters arising from individual feuds. Colonel Robert Crain, a supporter of Maddox, killed General Samuel Cuny. Jim Bowie, a supporter of Wells, killed Major Norris Wright, Sheriff of Rapides Parish, with his knife, thus beginning his reputation...

Bowie, James, d. 1836

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The son of Reason (or Rezin) and Elve Bowie, James (Jim) Bowie (1796?-1836) moved around the southern United States in his early life, finally settling on a plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, in around 1809. During the War of 1812, James and his brother Rezin Pleasant Bowie enlisted in the Second Division, Consolidated, of the U.S. Army. After the war, the brothers bought slaves from Jean Laffite and traded them in St. Landry Parish, until raising $65,0000, which James and Rezin ...

Cuny, Samuel, d. 1827.

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Wright, Norris, d. 1827.

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