Carter v. Montgomery

The Chancellor:

— The facts of this case disclose a curious episode of the civil war, and bring to the surface, stirred up by that mighty commotion, some of the fetid material which usually lies buried at the bottom of the great human ocean.

In the year 1862, Henry Bruner, occupying a lucrative position in the quartermaster’s department of the army of the Cumberland, at Nashville, and with a wife and children at bis northern home, persuaded a young girl named Myra Thomas, then living with her grandmother, to leave her home and cohabit with him as his wife. She was the more easily seduced,…