"Robert Christian, who was first lieutenant of Capt. Ritchey's company, known among the Confederates as "Old Grizzley," was captured at Newtonia, October 8, 1864, and while in the act of being taken off the field, the son of the man who had previously been killed by Christian came up, and crying out, "Let me shoot the ______ that killed my father," fired at the prisoner repeatedly, killing him instantly. It is said that the slayer of Christian scalped him, and for years after carried the scalp round Texas. In connection with this terrible reminiscence of the war, it is related that when Christian killed the rebel (old man Moore) he took the head home to show his family, and his wife, seeing the head without the ears, gave birth to a child without ears." Goodspeed's 1888 history of Newton County.
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"Robert Christian, who was first lieutenant of Capt. Ritchey's company, known among the Confederates as "Old Grizzley," was captured at Newtonia, October 8, 1864, and while in the act of being taken off the field, the son of the man who had previously been killed by Christian came up, and crying out, "Let me shoot the ______ that killed my father," fired at the prisoner repeatedly, killing him instantly. It is said that the slayer of Christian scalped him, and for years after carried the scalp round Texas. In connection with this terrible reminiscence of the war, it is related that when Christian killed the rebel (old man Moore) he took the head home to show his family, and his wife, seeing the head without the ears, gave birth to a child without ears." Goodspeed's 1888 history of Newton County.
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