Martinsburg Gazette And Public Advertiser

Port Gibson, (Miss.) Oct. 19.
A duel took place on Tuesday evening last, at four o'clock, between Col. Joseph G. Gibbs, of this town, and Mr. Allison Ross, of Jefferson county. They fought with muskets, loaded with fifteen buckshot, at thirty paces distance. Col. Gibbs was wounded in the left hip, and in two places between the hip and knee, but met with no injury to the bone. Mr. Ross received a buckshot in the left breast, a little below the nipple; he did not fall, but his wound is considered the most dangerous. The fires were exchanged within two seconds of each other: Mr. Ross' being the first. Mr. G. shot as he was falling. They fought on the Louisiana bank of the Mississippi, opposite the Grand Gulf. Major Walter M. Denny and Dr. D. D. Downing were the friend and surgeon of the former, and Mr. John M. Manry, and Dr. Elias Ogden of the latter.—Correspondent.