“A Mr. Hopkins and Doctor Shrewsbury met a gentleman by the name of J.L. Ware in company with another, whose name is Joseph Caldwell.  Mr. Ware offered a drink of spirits to Mr. Hopkins, who offered a toast to the health of Jeff. Davis.  Ware immediately snatched the bottle from his lips and dashed it against a rock and started on, when Hopkins said to Shrewsbury: ‘As we have got to begin somewhere pretty soon,we may as well begin with him.’  They started in pursuit of Ware, who saw them coming with their revolvers drawn in a threatening manner; immediately dismounted from his horse and loaded his rifle and prepared to receive them.  When they saw this they turned and remarked they would let him go this time, but the next time they would have him as well as every other Union man’s scalp before long.”

Reference Data:

The War of Rebellion: A Compilation of the Offical Records of the Union, by Robert Nicholson Scott, US War Dept., Lazelle, Davis, Perry, Kirkley, Ainsworth, US War Records Office, Moody, US Pension Office and the US Congress, 1897, page 552