• Histories
  • Origins and Traditions of Dueling
  • Code Duello
  • A Brief Biography of Abiel Leonard
  • The Age of Political Duels
• Original Documents
  • Tharp Posting
  • 1822 Anti-dueling Statute
  • Leonard Sentence (and transcript)
  • Act for the relief of Abiel Leonard
  • Map of St. Louis, 1853 
  • Bloody Island Map
  • State of Missouri vs. Ira P. Nash (and transcript)
• Lesson Plan
  • Lesson Overview
  • Glossary of Terms
  • Worksheet: Learning from Primary Sources
  • Guided Discussion Questions
• For Educators:
  • Rationales
    • Show-Me Standards and Social Studies Strands Targeted by Crack of the Pistol: Dueling in 19^th Century Missouri
  • Resources
    • Annotated Bibliography
    • Sites of Interest

MISSOURI STATE ARCHIVES
Crack of the Pistol:
Dueling in 19^th Century Missouri

State of Missouri v.Abiel Leonard (1824)

 

I Gray Bynum clerk of the said Court do certify that at the term aforesaid of the said Circuit court for the county of Howard Abiel Leonard was convicted on a charge preferred against him by the Grand Jurors for the body of the County aforesaid for sending a challenge to Taylor Berry to fight a duel and upon that conviction the Circuit court aforesaid by their Judgment considers that the said Abiel Leonard be rendered incapable of holding or being elected to any post of profit trust or emolument civil or military under the Government of this State.

 

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