From the same October 5, 1866, issue of the Jonesborough, Tennessee newspaper that contained the article about the Reverend William B. Carter, and the missing money, another brief story from the bridge-burning period, is recalled. It is a death notice for Col. Leadbetter, who hanged the two Union men in Greeneville, Tennessee, in 1861. It appeared as follows:



            Death of a Rebel

Rochester, New York, September 27.-,
Gen. Leadbetter, late of the rebel army,
died of appolexy at the Clifton House, C.
W., last night. He belonged at Mobile, and
left a considerable sum of money and valu-
able effects when he died.-- Telegraphic Dis-
patch.

Divine Oracle tells us that there is a place
of future punishment for the wicked--a HELL.
It also tells us that "no murderer can enter
the Kingdom of Heaven." If Lead better has
not received his due compensation of reward
within the confines of the lost--then we
infer, there is no hell, and the Word of
God is a "cunningly devised fable." The
purest blood of East Tennessee's loyal sons
cries from the ground against this foul mur-
derer who has gone to his final account.


It is obvious that the local writer who wrote the comments following the above death notice, still had very strong feelings about the political issues of the period.

Although most of the key "players" in the sad drama of 1861, were dead by 1866, it would take generations for the wounds to heal. Among the dead were President Abraham Lincoln, Captain David Fry, Jacob Harmon, Jr. Henry Harmon, C.A. Haun, Jacob M. Hinshaw, Henry Fry, Thomas Harmon and Colonel Danville Leadbetter.

Even after one hundred and thirty-five years, and five major wars in which citizens of all the re-United States, fought together, some scars still remain in the lives of the descendants of East Tennessee families who lost fathers, husbands, and brothers to the senseless acts of cruelty, which were poured out on the unfortunate citizens of "Pottertown", in 1861.

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