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\ ?-? .^/-X 0 THE LEGION AT MANASSAS A flighty Important Contribotioi History. Gea. Wide Hampton's Narrative ot Battle-Some Serious Errors C reeled-The Defence of the Kooli House-The Legion Held the He the Position and Saved tne Figl The Charge Across Jackson's Proi Justice Reudei td the Sooth Carol Troops at Last. ID the Century magazine of A there appeared two interesting a clea on the battle of Manassas, aiu reference was made in both of lb papera to my command, "The Hat ton Logion," I think it proper thc should give some memoranda of t fight. It waa the fortune of the Legi good or evil, as the reader may del mine for himself, to be engaged fr an early hour in the morning tu the close of the battle on the gron where it waa fought and won, n thia fact givea me I think, the opp tunity of knowing more of the < taila of the fighting on the platei " ~^ Houses, up to the time at which i wound waa rece>ved, than any surv ing officer commanding a regiment. Aa all the facta touching the ci war can only be brought out by c lating and comparing the experienc of those who took part in it, I ve ture to give mine, as to thia battle ? peci ai ly, as eome errors have ina '_ vertently crept into the va ious a counts of it heretof re given. I ho, to be able to show how this occurr? and how it could naturally occu without blame attaching to any on The two articles to which I refer ai those of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston an Gen. Imboden, and in these there ar I think, one or two mistakes, not ma terial aa far as general results ai concerned, but important as touchin * the part borne by the Legion in tha battle. THE MARCH TO THE BATTLEFIELD. In order to give a full understand . tog of the events of that day, as ie aa they fell under my observation, . must enter somewhat minutely ?nb details, which, I fear, may prov< wearisome, though essential. On th morning of Joly 21, my command af ter having been on the railroad thirtv hours, reached Manassas Junction about day light, and I reported at Kfcs^^occe to Gen. Beauregard, from whom 1 ?P^T?S5WTTO"ai5,,L1 P" " m lyovf-rrr - inn direction of the Stone Bridge, and to hold myself in readiness to support any troops eng-tged in that qnarter.'' In pursuance of this order we moved from the Junction about sunrise, un der direction of a guide, towards the point indicated. The guide,soon after we came within range of the artillery fire, retired without leave and with ?^N, ont notice. This was near the Lewis - House, and just as we were passing it, icaving it to our right. I met a conn? try boy on horseback who informed me that the enemy, in heavy force, had crossed Bull Run at Sudley Ford and were advancing towards the Warrenton turnpike. My guide hav ing desertedme, and not knowing where the Stol? Bridge was, I deter mined to movemy command in the direction of a ieavy musketry fire which we hean from our left, and which came fron the encounter of Evan's brigade w?h the Federals near Sudley For.? Just at this point, near the Lewis Home, I met Col. James Francia Piston, of the 4th regiment, Jackson's brigade, moving his com jrianji-Hth* opposite direction from ^^iaraTto take I suppose, some position to which he had been ordered. Know ?flflBing bim well, I gave him the informa mtion I had received from the boy, and ' i^Wie Legion moved on rapidly toward ^^^^Uw firrn^rW e crossed- i smalU^ranoh back of the Lewis House, and follow ing a road through a pine thicket, we struc ? in flank a corumn moving on a road into which our road led. In quiring what troops these were, I was told that they were Bee's brigade, then hastening to the support of Evans. It is important to bear this fact in mind, for it proves that the Legion reached the plateau where the battle waa fought at the same hour that Bee did. SUPPORTING ABATTERY AT iOo'CLOCK The Lieutenant-Colonel of the Le gion, B. J. Johnston, knew Gen. Bee well and suggested that he should ride forward to ask the General what position we should take. In a few minutes he returned bringing a mes sage from Bee that a battery was about to go into action and that he advised me to support it. This wac Imboden's Battery, which soon alter came into position,about ona hundred yards to the left of the Robinsou House and about the same distance ?oath of the Warrentm turopike. In i.bedience to the suggestion of Bee, 1 brought my command up just be hind the battery under partial sheller of .the hill upon which it was placed, and where it waa gallantly engaging Rickett a battery, which waa Btation .d'on an opposite hill acroso Young's branch. We got into position here, I think, between 9 and IO o'clock A. B -M t and the time is impressed on my Ifftta-. memory from the following circom Benanee: Soon after we came on the ^>,- " ' ^toound I saw one ot Itnboden's men V^v^fibg iarr^ *? *oe rear? W00D(?e(? OD bis shoulder by a shell, and I se him to my surgeons, . Drs. Jo] T. Darby and B. W. Taylor, wi dressed his wound. In a convera tion with I m. boden, sometime aft the battle, he told me that this wi the first man wounded in bia batter and in answer to my questou ut wb time thia had happened he replit that he thought it was somewhi later, probably 10, but it establish the fact that the Legion was near tl Lobins?n House at an early hour i the morning. These details are give in order that I may explain a miatat made by Gen. Johnston and Cap Imboden aa to the time the Legio reached the battlefield. GEN. JOHHSTON CORRECTED. Now the alight error into whir Gen. Johnston baa fallen ie containe in the following extract on page IC in his contribution to the May nun ber of the Century : " Hampt >n with his Legion reache the valley as the retrograde move meut began. Forming it promptly h joined iu the action and con tribu tei greatjytof thftorAerly _i;borac twof th rexreerbyT??? courage and admirabl soldiership, seconded by the excellen conduct of the gentlemen composin hi? Legion." I have shown that we reached th plateau before Bee croEsed the tur? pike on his way to support Evan? and I shall prove by incontrovertibl evidence before concluding how lon we remained on the turnpike. Be< may have formed his brigade, as ha been stated that he did, on this pla teau before he crossed the turnpike but if he did I ?aw nothing of th? sort, and I made it a rule during th< war to report only what I saw ant: knew. Of course tho e officers whe had larger commands than mine had tc iepend in a large measure on the re ports of subordinates, but my obeer cation has led me to the conclusion that much of the confusion and con tradiction prevailing as to the events ind transactions of t? war have arisen rom the fact that officers constantly unbraced the whole field iu their re* lorts of a battle, instead of confining hemeelve8 to what fell uuder their personal notice. In this sketch of he battle of Mauassas I propose to ;ive only Buch incidents as came un 1er my own eye, and when it is re neml.ered that the L-gion waa from ;n early hour io the morning until hocetreatof the enemy never out idA-afLiL* ftrcall tii?--1- r- ., ? .?-. Irne drawn (rom the turnpike in out of the Rubinsou House to the ght of Jackson's position, a few hun ed yards iu our rear, thence to the m ry House, about as lar distant id thence back to the point first in cated, it will be seen that my op iituuities for observing what occur id within these lines were certainly i great as those cf any surviving offi ;r who took part in that fight. It proper to state, however, that I as wounded at the Henry House, :>oul 3 30 P. M , and after that saw othing more of the action; but it as very soon after this hour that ie retreat of the eu**roy began, as I ave been informed. THE POSITION OF THE LEGION. In order to define the limita of the riangle in which my command ope ited I subjoin a rough sketch ol lat portion of the field, which will ive the reader an idea of the posi ons occupied by us: Nos. 1, 2 and mai k the different positions of the jegion, No. 1 being the Robinson louse, No. 2 the position taken when re fell back from the turnpike, and Io. 3 the Henry Houoc. Imboden'e lattery is indicated by No. 4, and I bink that Capt. Imboden makee a aistake when he ?ays that hie first loeition wa- "abo?l 100 yarda to the lortheast of the Henry Hou8e," for viren !">aw him go into-action.firet he.. vas, asl have stated jaet to tue left of he Robinson House, and at all events t was here that the Legion supported jia battery. This difference in opinion jetween us is, however, very imma terial; but he falls into a grave error iv hen he says that "for at least a aalf hour after our forcea were driven icrosa Young's Branch no Confederate joldier was visible from our position near the Henry House. The Staun ton Artillery, so far as we c uld see was alone iu its glory." No*-lhe fact is that the Legion, which supported his batteiy as it went into action, moved up to the turnpike, when he waa forced to re tire, and remained there for hours af ter his withdrawal. While in this latter position we saw the troopB of Bee and Evuns falling back across the road between us and the Stone Bridge which was aeveral hundred yards to our right Many of these men were rallied behind Jackson's brigade which bad previously taken position on tb? platean, a few hundred yards south of the Robinson House and in front of the pine forest that extended from the branch in rear of the Lewis House to the field in which the Henry and Lobins?n houses were situated. At that time I was not aware that Jackson had come on the ground, nor did he kuow that my command was in front ol' his on the turnpike, and this lact caused him to fall into an error, to which I shall allude before concluding these remarks. But at present I wieh to follow the account of Gen Imboden. I do not know what position bis battery took after i withdrawal from the Robinson flous for I did not see it again during ti fight, but he certainly mistook son other command for mine when he d scribes the following incident : "To reach my horse, after Jackso had given me permission to rejoin n battery, I had to pass the infantry Hampton's Legion, who were lyn down in supporting distauce nf ot artillery, then in full play, (Colon Wade Hampton's Legion at this tim as I remember, consisted of a reg ment of infantry, a battalliou of ca airy and a four-gun battery of hon artillery.) Whilst untying my hon a shell exploded iu the midst of Hara] ton's infantry, killin.; several an stampeding fifteen or twenty nearei the spot, I tried to rally them, ht one huge fellow, musket in baud, wit bayonet fixed had started ou a ruo. threw myself iu front of him wit drawn sword, and threatened to cu him down, whereupon he made a lung at me," &c, ?cc. GEN. IMBODEN'S ERRORS. The General wields now his pe quite as well as he once did his swore bu^my'reasons for thinking that thi dramatic episode occurred with othe troops than mine are these: He place the Bcene of the incident near th Henry House. Nov/, my men neve laid down near the Henry House they were not at or near the house a all until their charge upon it, order ed by Gen. Beauregard ; they sup ported no artillery duriDg the fighl except Imboden's at the Robiosor House, and no Confederate battery was near the Henry House when we moved on it. As we did so we passed the 18th Virginia lyi?g down, not far from thehou8e,andin the final charge, made ou the only two guns of Rickett's Battery not disabled and their in fantry supports, this regiment joioed the Legion gallantly. In this charge the guns were taken. Capt. Rickett was wounded, was taken in a blanket by four of the men of Company A, Hampton Legion, was carried to the Lewis Houpe, to which I had been taken, and was attended by Dr. D.ir hy, of my command. Let me say hore, iu passing, that his wife soon ioined him there, remaining with tiim amid all the dreadful scenes in :ident to a field hospital, ami by her favolion to him, in my opinion, saved Ha life. No soldieron either aide in ;h*t battle displayed higher courage ,han she did in braving the hard ihflMM - l^nniH tn which she mittoreturnt?^??^? Inch has for its purpose thb corree- ^ au of what are some errors io refer- | ice to my command at Manassaa. I )pe that my friend, Gen. Imboden, ill not understand me as criticising ' 17 ol his statements iu an unfriend- ^ spirit, for this is very far from my jject. But many years, filled with Brplexing anxieties, grave responei ilities and hard duties, have passed nee we stood together amid the orms of that great battle, und we iay both have forgotten many of itu tridents, especially those which re .te to the movement of each other's tmmand. I am sure, however, that we could now go together over that istoric field we could identify the laces where we fought and readily j ittle all points of difference between 9. But he must pardon me if, in ie meantime, I place greater reliance u my own memory as the movements nd positions ol my command than j ? his, especially as his has been BO J reacherous in regard to Miss Julia 1 ackson, who was at that time accord- : lg to his statement, "still in long j resses." Ladies ate proverbially ? eticent and sensitive in reference to , heir age, and he will have to make i n apology to this chsrming young < ady, who, if other authorities are to ie believed, was not born till long ,fter the battle of Manassae 1 But r?heTSW?ial i5 ??l a very accurate- - i is tor ian, he seem9 to have been a rue prophet in regard to that "little laughter" of the immortal Jackson, vho as a bride, has just received the ;ood wishes and the blessings of the vhole South. Gen. Imboden makes a mistake as 0 the constitution of the Legion, for ?here were but BU infantry companies u it, and they were the only troops )f the command present on the 21st )'uly. I think, too, but I express my opinion with great deference, that he bas mistaken the constitution of his D.vn battery on that occasion. My recollection is that if. was composed of four guns, but he, iu speaking of it in his article for the Century, says: "Mine, six in number, were all smooth bore six-pounders, brass." Ou page 5G9, Series 1, Vol. 21, "War ot the Rebellion," ia a report of Thoa. G. Rhett, A. A. Gen., giving a list of tbe troops of the army of the She nandoah engaged at Manassas, and in thin the "batteries in action" are given as followa: "Col, Feudleton's, four pieces; Cap.. Imboden's, four pieces; Capt. Albnrtis's, four pieces," &c. Il he had ouly four guns instead of six he is, of course entitled lo greater praise for the brilliant aervice he rendered, and which he thus de scribes : "For full three quarters of an hour we kept up a fire tLat delayed the euemy'a movement across Young's Branch. But for that they might have gained the Henry plateau be \ fore Jackson aud Hampton came up and before Bee an ? Barlow had rallied was .me ch their disorganized troops. Minutes count as hours under such circum stances, and trifles often turn the scale in great battles." JACKSON'S ARRIVAL AND POSITION BE HIND THE LEGION-12 o'CLOCfc. In a previous portion of thu? paper I alluded to a slight mistake made hy Gen. Jackson, in letters Vtritten to hie wife soon after the fight!and I mention it only to show how h leonid naturally fall into it. As I; have stated, my command reached, the Robinson House early in the morning, and we soon moved up to the turn pike. At what hour Gen. Jackson came upon the plateau I do not know, but from the reports of Gens. Jfchn ston and Beauregard, he must^t^e done so about 12 o'clock. Gen. John ston says that he left Lookout illili "about ll o'clock," and when reached the plateau Jackson ? "deploying his brigade." Gen. E eau regard says: "At ll 30 A. M. ?en. Johnston and myself set ont for the immediate field of acti reached pk^thj^reaf^T the Rob! and Widow Henry's house, abo o'clock M., and just as the commands of Bee, Bartow and Evans had tafceu shelter in a wooded ravine, bee"00* the former, stoutly held at that by Hampton with his Legion, v bad made a stand here after ha: previously been as far lorward aJ-ue turnpike." These statements fix jbjjet ;y accuratively the time at wh Jackson deployed his brigade, for be :eems to have done so about 12 M. fa I have stated, the position tal :en >y him was in the open plain, af ter unerging from the pine forest r?h cu aid between the Lewie and Hen -7 tooses. When I first saw this hriga de oon after 2 o'clock P. M., and ou nj07 vithdrawal from the turnpike, it u the line of battle along the edg he forest, its right resting on a fe yhich ran at right angles to its Hg nd its left extending beyond, bn ome distance in the rear of" ?enry House. Jackson's right w finest directly behind the right he Legion when it was on the ?ike, hut several hundred yards he rear, there being a ravine, and li ome portion of the distance a piec f woods between the two commands THE REPULSE OF KEYES. The road from Sudley Ford crosaec ie turnpike nt the Stone Houser?ndl id thence near the Henry Housfi ioa??fl?tgT-.J,?iili,-ep -ooao?e? ttery, a demonstration was the enemy towards the Robinsc Duse. The Legion was immediate )ved up to the turnpike to me is threatened attack. The po ken was a very strong one, tch and fence ran along the oort le of the road, affording very goo otection to the men. Here we were tacked by quite a heavy fore lich was repulsed with loss, tole from the report ol' Col. Eras ns D. Keyes, commanding 1st bri e, 1st division, U. S. infantry, der to show the rasult of thi tack, and the hour at which it ide. This is the proof I proini produce, to show how long ?gion held its exposed position e turnpike while no reinforcemej are in sight : "About 2 o'clock P. M. Gen. Ti dered me to take a battery on hei front. The battery was strong isted and supported by infantry fiemen, sheltered by a buildin nee and a hedge. * * * As oved forward we came under re of other large bodies of ?emy costed behind breastwor id on reaching the summit of ill the fire became so bot that, cposure to it of five minutes wo ave annihilated my whole line." UK LEGION HOLDS THE TURNPIKE TIL AFTER 2 P. M. "Thia -describ.ee. legion when it was on the t?r ear the House. The ditch, o lenlion has been made above, ie appearance of "breastworks," ideed served pretty well the ose of them. The report of K roves conclusive ' that the L ras on the turnpike as late as I., and remained Borne time aft ttuck on it had been repulsed his repulse the enemy moved L sit, and striking the Sudley nme down to the Stoue Hous he turnpike. Here a battery ilaced in the road and as it cou! ?lade our position perfectly, I Irew my cominan I, falling, .cross the ravine and euterin ield where Jackson's brigad onned. We halted first just M-est of the hill above tba r spoken of, in front of Jackson 3ol. Pendleton coming up at tbi ment with some guns whic wished to place ou the groun DCCupied, we fell back to tb mentioned, our line being a angles to Jackson'^ and our le lng on his right. FIGHTING AROUND THE HENRY Here I saw Gen. Bjaurega the first time that day, and dressed a few complimentai y coiiraging words to my men. ing us, he went towards the House, where the tiring wi heavy, and in a short tim aides, Samuel Ferguson, sn1 ly a brigadier general, and siding ia Greenville, Mies., br N ' order that I should move my i maud at a double quick to the H House. Wo had proceeded bt short distance when Gen. Evana dared us to move to our right tow a body of woods, from which a had been opened on us; but jua this moment Col. James Ohesuut, ing as volunteer aide to G?n. Bea gard, repeated the order ex ten through Ferguson. We moved rapidly aa possible in the direcl indicated, paasing obliquely ac the front of Jackson's brigade an. a few minutes we were fightiugaro the Henry House, where Bee, Bu and Fisher had been killed or t tally wounded. Two guns of Ricki battery, the horses of which had been Lilied, were near the creal . je.?'ill abandoned ; two other, in same condition, were a little lo down nearer the house, and the maining two he waa stubbornly f?? ing just beyond the garden of house, on or very near the Sut jroad. Aa we passed the house, .1 whilat we were in the garden command to "charge bayonets" h ing just been given, I was wound The command was turned over Capt. James Conner, senior capt: and I was taken from the field. ' Legion followed the retreating ene as far as any of our infantry did e the men had been under constant for eight hourn. These detaile given in order that an explanat may be offered showing how the c take made by Jackson came ab naturally. JACKSON'S NATURAL ERROR. In a letter to Mrs. Jackson, writ on the 21 July, he uses the follow language : "Whilst great credit is ( to other parts of our gallant an God made my brigade more inst mental than any other in repule: the main attack," and on Angus he writes as follows: "I know tl the 1st brigade was the first to m .and pass jur retreati og forces, to pi !'th no other aid but the smi d, to boldly take its positiou w tillery that waa under my co , to arrest the victorious foe iward progress, to hold him until rein forcements arriv iually to charge bayonets, a advancing pierce the euem, 1." The world recognizes t guished part borne by G< in and his gallant brigade in t ide of the service of his men c ccasioD. The same pride thi d then his warm words of praii ts me to do justice to my me: conduct and services were 1 ' of commendation as those 1 ter troops. No soldier eau ar e this feeling more keenly tba Stonewall Jackson would have don and no living soldier could be mo: em? tient iu doing j ustice to hie con rades than would have been that dea hero. He has done injustice to m command by hie accounts of this bal file, and I have not one word of cou ?Uintto make against him. loni Mah to show that, not knowing of th Ance of my command on the tum ?then betook position on th 9k'n ?ur p**i'i he supposed, a f? Bctly T- ' ,ral, that when Be M ML'' -ack all of our troop! en in advance of hip, bai Hence the error int M fell when he stated that thit H^?ue was "the first to meet and pat our retreating forces," and "the fire to arrest the victorious foe in his oe ward progress. The following extrae from the roport of Brig.-Gan. Evau will throw some light upon this poinl aa clo indeed the reports of Gens. John eton aid Beauregaad. Ger, Evan saya : TESTIMONY OF GEN. EVANS. "The enemy by thj^?^were ii 10nch largeforce thai our poefiion wa no longertenaDTS? and I ordered m; command, now greatly ecattered, t fall back, under cover, towards th i Lewis House. The commands 0 Gen. Bee and myself were now com pletely scattered, when we were time ly covered by Hampton's Legion am other reinforcements." IEvans himself passed througl mand while it was 00 the tum be was retreating, andi kno\ ia wa9 the first Coufederat at he met as he was retiring be repulse of the enemy 0: npike they moved dowu tb road, crossed the pike at th Stone Hoime and ul ruck I he left c Jackson's line in front ot the Hem fe House. This explanation of the move I mmts of the e lemy-one thal I hav never steii given iu Hoy report of tb "Tn?it?e- reconciles accounts whic otherwise seem contradictory, and 1 ' proves that while the lett of Jackson' line was engaged, the Legion coul ^ very well have been fighting in iron of his right, for his line, while nearl parallel with mine, was four times u long. JOSTICE TO THE LEGIOIT. Tbeee facts are given simply i ? justice to my old command, in who? . reputation and well-earned glory - feel now the same pride that I tel y when 1 had the honor to lead then y On every field they did their whol ia duty aa soldiers, and on the first the t* left more than ODe-fifth 0.' their nun I- ber dead and wounded. The Arm n of the Potomac, to which the Legio was attached, had 9,477 on Lt of which number six hundrc twenty-four were killed and wc Of the six hundred men of t gion one hundred t>nd twei fell. They .surely deserved thc Gen. Johnston bestows on theo he speaks of " the excellent c of the gentlemen compoping t! gion." CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCI lu this rambling I have sou details iu order to elucidate < two points which may b* of i to the brave auivivors cf the I and I have consulted several ol that I might verify my recoil? of the incidents of the battle, gentlemen, amongst whom are T. G. Barker, who wws the f, and efficient adjutant general < command, Dr. B. W. Taylor, ( its surgeons who was io the m the fight, and Private Bill, a soldier who subsequently beca rfrfnratr.rfljpiQftgnr in the accur the statements made as to the tiona and movements of the I during the fight. I have end ea to state only such facts as fell my own observation, and I hav diously avoided everything that possibly be construed as a refli on any of my comrades. I onl; sire to see the whole truth rega the conduct of my men brough I did not realize at the time o battle the importance of the ec rendered by them, but in the lit the experience taught me by years of duty in the field, I be now that the accident which li to take position on the turnpike a material in thence in shaping fortunes of the day. Our pr?t there delayed the advance of th< erny for several hours and thu abled the reinforcements to be bro up, which turned what at one seemed to be a defeat into a vic! It is ceitain that but for the dt lion of the enemy at the turn the battle would not have been foi where it was, but might prob have been made at or near the J tion. This is, of course, but sp lation, but au incident that oeeu a lew days after the fight shows I am not alone in entertaining opinion. THE LEGION SAVED THE FIGHT, Some time after the battle Get R. Trimble, a graduate o? V ti ngufs bed ^tcer^m^^^r^vicet% resides now A Baltimore, joined < army. Wishing to study the batt field, be rode over it a few days af his arrival, in company with seve officers. After examining the vu ous positions held by our troops, said to one of the officers when came to the place on the pike wh< the Legion had made ita staod, a without kuowiog what troops h held it, "This ia the key to the whi position; the troops who held it nav the fight." Thia was repeated io i by the officer to whom it hal be said, and waa afterwards told to i by th? General himself. It waa Li j praiae, which I appreciated great! and I put it on record in honor of n old, my gallant and my loved coi radea of the Legion. WADE HAMPTON. Of all the cool thinga in this wor of cheek, tho passage cited I rota tl sentence of death passed by a Wyoi iug Territorial judge upon a coi demned murderer ia certainly tl cooleet. 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' Agent for the BRAZILIAN SPECTACLE. WATCHES and CLOCKS repaired and warranted. WOT. SCH WEIGERT, Oct. 18, '82. - ly] 732 Broad St.. Puder Cintrai Hotel. Angosta. "The Waterbury.^ ONLY $3 and 50c This Watch will be sent to Subscribers who pay one year in advance, for $250. A SPECIAL OFFER* 0r w?l be^vea 88 a TLi. Adr.,: li Edgefield, S.O. THE WATERBURY WATCH 1, n stem-wlud- Pri-millTYl fol* ?HtTA er, and will nm 28 hours. Thc caso is NICKEL- lAOiUlUUl LUI J? 1VU SILVEit, and will always remain as bright as a new silver dollar. The Watch has a heavybeveled . - edge, and crystal face. Tho works of the Watch } VJ 0301*1 D6rS? are made with thc finest automatic machinery. Every Watch is VESTED in varying positions and lsperfect before lenvingtbe factory. Each Watch * ri ri f ti ca ? put up In a handsome nr?jB?fcfOved 6ATIJV- ?Ull lOCH . --.NED cate, for ?u;c t^-JI^MI through isw Sb "well-known havo these Watches become, thousand are buying them in preference tobipber 5riced Watches. Tho Company are now n;..ki;." .OOO Watches each day, an average of li? Watches per minute. You would imagine tho whole country supplied hy this time. By no means. This is th8 merchant's Watch, the farmer's Watch, tlie miner's Watch, the laborer's Watch, the boy's Watch, tho school-girl's Watch-in fact, every body's Watch. (TO cn On receipt of 4) J. JU V.O rend Ihfs celebrated Watch and a handsome Xlckel-Plnted Chain, with Charm attached, by rcglntcrci mall, prepaid, and guoranteo lt to reach you carel y. The Waterbury Watch Co. has a national repu tation for making the BEST CHEAP WATCH IN VUE WURLD. We have received from them their NEW Vatch. a great Improvement over the mst ones mad , and a marvel of simplicity and accuracy, containing more Ingenuity tuan i.ny ether art I clo placed be fore the publie tor many years. The cut shows EXACT SIZE nt' Wal (h. A Watch mado by bund would cost as much as a cottage by tho sea Muir.: or a email yacht, and take as long to build. Ko perfect is the machinery used In making this Watch, and so exact are all its parts, that if lt needs repairs, if wat direct to tho factory, the charjre for actual repairs (Including parts used) never exceeds ?0 cia This will explain why they are so cheap and so emily repaired. EVERY WATCH IS WARRANTED TU DIVE SATISFACTION. New Q O .a jy "3 OJ ja *i pli sa Bs Kid Ililli* 9 o o -2.a . S - S 8 fe .* .O ? S ?? ~ 0 O 4 Or. RU. (j, 0, ?BIlil C?" BEST IN THE WORLD The Great Savings hisiilune. $10 TO ^t?0~SAVED ! If You Are Going: NORTH, EAST, OR TO ANY POINT IN THE GREAT WEST, -AND WANT Cheap Tickets & QuickTime, WRITE TO OR CALL ON OHAS. B. WALKER, Traveling Passenger Agent, SAW ROUTE, (Western and Atlantic Railroad,) ATLANTA, - GEORGIA. NOTE.-When you arrive in Atlanta call on me. You will lind it t? your in terest to &ne mo before purchasing tick ets from auy one else. ASK FOR WALKER. ARTHUR 8. TOMPKINS, Altorney-at-LaWj Edgefield O. HM S O. Nov. M884. Prices Lout' and JHeantf?iiii Than Elsewhere. E I. O. M. Our Pianos and Organs, Selected from Twelve of the Bast Makers, are acknowledged io blTSuperior by the Great At tisis of the World. We Deliver our Pianos and Organs, Freight Paid, to any point in the South, with Music Bool; Revolving Stool, and Instruction Book. Also, a Good Cover with every Piano. P.A.S.M.A.T.H. Our long experience of over Forty Years enables us to place in every Horne the Fintst Musical Instrument in the World, guaranteeing Satisfac tion and our Price to be the lowest. Musical Merchandise and Instiu menttof every description Sheet Mu sic and Music Books. The Latest Publications. Orders filled on day of reception. Write for Catt logues, Prices, Dis counts, and Easy Terms of Payment. T. M. H. 0. T. S. 6. 0. ROBINSON & CO. 631 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA. Jan. 27, 1885. FOR SALE. MY FARM of "ibout Fifty Acre?, ly ing, nearly all, In the Incorporate limits of Trenton, S. C. ' The tract con tains a (rood dwelling, all necessary out buildings, and also a fine orchard of choice fruit trees. For -further particu lars, apply to the undersigned at Tren ton, 8 I v. 3, 1884.-48 J. A. C. JOOTS8,