District Attorney Thomas C. Reynolds and editor of the St. Louis Democrat, Benjamin Gratz Brown, fought a duel on Bloody Island. Brown was wounded, and Reynolds was unhurt. Brown went on to become Governor of Missouri, and Reynolds went on to become the Confederate Governor of Missouri.
On this date in history, Missouri’s first secretary of state, Joshua Barton, was killed in a duel.
District Attorney Thomas C. Reynolds and editor of the St. Louis Democrat, Benjamin Gratz Brown, fought a duel on Bloody Island. Brown was wounded, and Reynolds was unhurt. Brown went on to become Governor of Missouri, and Reynolds went on to become the Confederate Governor of Missouri.
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