Our readers will remember the very bold and able Union speech by Col. Leonidas Metcalfe, at Carlisle, Nicholas county, Kentucky, on the 14th of April, which was published in the Gazette shortly after its delivery. We learn that on the 8th inst. A duel was fought between the Colonel and W. T. Casto, a notorious secession lawyer of Maysville, who was recently liberated from Fort Lafayette. The origin of the difficulty was the Colonel’s instrumentality in procuring the imprisonment of Casto. The encounter took place one mile below Dover, Kentucky. The weapons were Sharp’s rifles, the distance twenty five yards. Casto had the first fire. The Colonel returned by shooting his adversary through the heart. – {Cin. Gazette
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 1
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