REBEL GENERALS DUEL TO THE DEATH!

On September 6, 1863, Marmaduke and Walker met at the Godfrey LeFevre plantation just seven miles from Little Rock to settle their differences, neither expressing disapproval of the series of letters and subsequent events that had led them there. Moore served as Marmaduke’s second, while Crockett served as Walker’s. Advising friends were Captain William M. Price for Marmaduke and Major John C. King for Walker. Walker brought a surgeon, while Marmaduke brought his party and an ambulance. At fifteen paces, they shot with no results. On the second shot, Marmaduke fatally wounded Walker, immediately rushing to his side to ask if he was harmed. He allowed Walker use of his ambulance, and Walker died the next day in Little Rock.