Screening Room by Alan Lightman

Author:Alan Lightman [Lightman, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-101-87003-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2015-02-10T05:00:00+00:00

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That was the era, says Harry. Mules. And duels. Just ten miles south of the mule barns on Third Street, two Memphians had it out with each other in the early morning of August 26, 1870. The altercation was over a beautiful woman, of course. The duelists were Edward L. Hamlin, a lawyer, twenty-five years old, and Edward T. Freeman, an accountant, thirty years old. The two young men followed the code exactly. Their seconds paced out a distance of fifteen yards. Each belligerent had a long-barrel smoothbore pistol with a single load, an oversize ball of lead “more likely to knock down than to penetrate.” According to the Memphis Daily Appeal, the spot chosen for the duel was “well known in the annals of Memphis dueling, several hostile meetings having occurred there.” As reported the next day:

A personal meeting took place at or near Old Shanghae, some three hundred yards beyond the Mississippi line … yesterday morning at sunrise, between Major E. Freeman and Mr. Ed L. Hamlin, in which the latter was shot through the body and died a few minutes afterward. Of the causes which led to this melancholy affair it is not our province to speak. They were of a strictly private and personal nature …

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