The Louisville Press contains a notice of the latest exploits of Sue Mundy, the celebrated female guerrilla. It says:
“Sue Mundy” is believed to have been a possible pseudonym used by the Confederate media for Confederate Captain Marcellus Jerome Clarke due to his youthful appearance and long hair. Captain Clarke was eventually caught and executed by US authorities in the area in 1865. His last words were "I believe in and die for the Confederate cause."
Thursday last, Captain McCormick and Surgeon Shark, of the Seventh Pennsylvania cavalry, left camp at Bardstown [Kentucky] for the purpose of visiting the family of Mr. Grigsby, one and a half miles from town. While the two gentlemen were sitting in Mr. Grigsby's parlor conversing with the ladies, they were surprised by the sudden appearance of Sue Mundy, at the head of a gang of thirteen desperadoes. Two officers, finding resistance useless, immediately surrendered. Sue Mundy was apprised of the fact by one of Mr. Grigsby's daughters, who begged her to spare the lives of the two men.
She replied by cursing her, and told her she would be his own judge, at the same time walking up to Captain McCormick and shooting him through the head. She then shot Dr. Shark through the breast. Both men died almost instantly. The gang then left in the direction of Bloomfield, [Kentucky] where they have their headquarters. The citizens recognized among the scoundrels a man by the name of Turner, from Bardstown, [Kentucky] who was sent across the river some weeks ago to remain during the war.
Another more likely identity for “Sue Mundy” is Confederate guerrilla fighter Henry C. Magruder who was also captured and executed with Marcellus Jerome Clarke. Magruder would confess to being “Sue Mundy” is his posthumous memoir Three Years in the Saddle: The Life and Confession of Henry Magruder: The Original Sue Munday, The Scourge of Kentucky (1865).
This gang has been prowling around Bardstown [Kentucky] for the past week. They have sworn to kill every Federal soldier caught by them. They rob everybody, and are a terror to the whole county.
General Long, as soon as he heard of the murder of the two officers, sent scouting parties in all directions, with instructions to kill all guerrillas captured. We have not learned whether any of the party were caught.
The bodies of Captain McCormick and Surgeon Shark were brought to the city [of Louisville, Kentucky] yesterday, to be forwarded to their friends in Pennsylvania.
The grave of Captain McCormick of the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, reportedly shot in the head by guerrillas appears to verify the story.
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