James Miller, C. S A.
Sboi in Retaliation at Chesterfield,
fc\ C., March. IS65, by Federal
Orders.
(News and Courier).
Amid the conquVmg crowd lie
stood,
A captive undUma\ea
N ? knight with noM?r oause or
blood.
A soldier unafraid.
To liiin tho ragged grey lie worn
Was as the cloth of gold;
The throngs his manly bosom bore
But bound a heart unsold
With culm, white face he heard
them say,
As if his strength to tr) ;
Your luind bus drawn >our
doom today;
Step forward, you must die.
No sob, nor faltering step betrayed
The heatt-brouU in his breast,
As head a-poiso he proudly said:
"I luivo but one reqtiest;
"Not for my country's cause 1
plead,
Nor yet that 1 might live ?
The God in life who guided me,
In doath His strength shall
give."
"1 ask no quarter at y jur hands
I beg ye for no grace,
But this, that you remove my
bands
And shoot to spare my face,
"G( d made me free ! No blemish J
i 1
(Mil 18
My birthright or niv nam*1,
This face for kin or country, siis.
Has nevct blushed for shame!"
O'er Carolina's sacred fields
Screech for the tollq'uer's guns
And bowed, heart-broken, Dixie
yields,
A martyr from her sons.
James K. Kerr.
Charleston, S. 0 , dune 21, 1905
A Monument to James Miller.
To the Editor of The Sunday
News: To the noble and patriotic
woraon of South Carolina has
been added to their hundreds of
patriotic daeds already performed
at least, one more duty, without
which, if not. attamntftd #nii o/?.
complished, shall make their loving
duties incomplete, ank that is
the erection of a suitable m onument
to the memory of James
Miller.
Let it ho done under the uuspices
of the daughters ef the Confederacy,
organize, and put your
committees to work through the
State, and 1 feel that this benuti
ful work can be accomplished.
All Veteran Camps will respond
I'm satisfied, and give, if only a
little. Don't expect any great amnnnt
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uuul 11 uul UIJJM.MIU, IJUl 1UI 118 an
trne Carolinians, feel it our privilege
to give, and to give whatever
wo can, ho it much or little.
Chip in our ponnies. nickleu and
dimes, and dollars where they are
pie tiful, and a handsome shaft
can be erected to take the place
of tho simple mound that now
marks the last resting place of
Jas Miller, the hero.
Bo brave and "nob'o a wearer of
the grey should not be forgotten.
Yielding to tho inevitable, as
he did to die for no crime that he
k?.l ?? *
uau uiMuujiiiuu, sigoirying ti 1 s
prepaiednoss to meet his Maker,
with only one plea, that he be
not blindfolded, and that hie face
thatGod had given him, be spared
from mutilation, bravely, without
a quiver of his eyelids, he
faced bis executioners, showing
that beneath hie culm aad composed
manner there was a deep ?
divine and religious sentiment
that shone forth, illuminating the
hero's character and giving dignity
to the last moments of his
life.
1 feel n natural prido for the
accomplishment of this beautiful
work, through the devotional patriotism
and untir ng energies of
tre loyal aad noolo matrons and
daughters of South Carolina, and
feel also confident that the day
i?i n<>t far distant 'hat to his memoiy
will be trum-mitted to posterity
a monument that will not
only ho an ornument to gallant
eld Cheater Held County and our
Sta'o ?ia well, but nround which
we ail cin unite In paying a true
tribute to the virtues of our hero,
to wh mo mime it will forever
stHiul, in lofty and lusting uttestati
hi .
II. Frank Ford.
No Gl), il*y htieet, Charleston,
June 22, 1905.
I.J IU II.IJ
man anu numan new
for Grime
Revolting Details Of The
Murder Of Rev. H. D.
Grainger.
Verdict Of 'Ihc Coroner?Commander
Johnson and His Par.
amour, Charlotte Sim
mons, C h a r ge d
With Assassii'ii.
Special to The Stater
Conway, June 24.? Another
tragedy has oceured to stain the
fair fame of Ilorry county, sickening
and revolting in its details.
Yestorday morningl Rev. Harmon
1). Grainger, a Baptist minister,
who lived on his farm near
Baydoro, was shot dead in his
field about 9 o'clock in the forenoon.
The crime was perpetrated
by an assassin who had hidden
himself in the woods adjoining
the field and who fired both
barrels o, his shot gnn, each loaded
with a full load of buckshot,
for 32 shots were found in the
body. MrGainger was the psatcr
of several country churches,
and it is said that no man in this
country had preached more funerals
o- married more couples.
T T wn? l-nnitn nnft ~ - ?
.. V.W Vff (in v.* 1UVV.U IIUL SJIIly
in his immediate neighborhood
and community, but throughont
the length und breadth of the
whole county. His family consisted
of bis wife and four children,
some of whom were working
in the field near him when
the dastardly crime was done.
Feared to Approach Scene.
When the sh ootiDg occured the
_il m
oLiicr mcmoers or the family were
so badly frightened that they
did not go at onco to the prostrate
body, but raised such an
outcry for help that neighbors
soon came. The body fell at the
first shot, and death must have
been instantaneous, for the shot
ranged from the waitt to the head
piercing very vital organ?liver,
spleen, kidneys, lungs, spinal
column and brain. The mule he
was plowiug stopped, and the
chin ofthefaliing body caught
on the cross bar between the
plow handles. The body was
not touched or moved until the
arrival of the coroner. The
friends of the family had erected
a shade out of blankets,pine tops,
and so forfh. The direction fron
which the shooting was done wa<
llplprminoil fii-at- W... ?? * *
??. Vjy piuuiug lll(
wounds, and was afterward con
firmed by finding the wadding
from the gun in nearby bushes.
At first, no suspicion was entertained
of any one in the community,
/or it wna not thought
that Mr. Grainger had an enemy
but first one little circumstance
and anohcr combined to casl
suspicion upon a near neighbor,
Commander Johnson, and hii
paramour Charlotto Simmons,
nee Price. Johnson and this woman
had been living together in
open adultery for some months
past, and had been the subjeet of
severe comments by Mr. Grainger,
whb was understood to be
agitating, having them presented
- i
fcfote ilie next nueting t f the
graud jury.
Threats of Johnson.
The testimony developed the
facts that Johson had made several
threats to various parties that
if Mr. Grainger persevered in his
intention, he (Johnson) would
"make him smoke," or would
"hloocly his shirt/' etc. AlsC
that some tintc ago, about two
Weeks earlier, he had purchased
buckshot. He and his paranioui
reached the se *ne together abotil
5 o'clock in the afternoon, Haying
that they had been fishing,
and had just rsturned, which was
the reason of their not coming
sooner, When Johnson was pul
^.? t K/v 1 * ?A?/* - *
vmi um Muiiu nc icsiiued to tilt
fact that he and his ''won an" hat
been fishing, and thai lie ha?l carried
his gun in the hope of shoot
ing squirrels, but the only shellt
he had were loaded with No ;
shot. Mis actions, expression and
general demeanor were such a
to increase these suspicions. Foi
sometime he seemed to be unaware
theof, but finally took the re
alarm,and it was only by the cxei
cise of the greatest finesse that tin
deputy sheriff, was able to holt
him on the ground until the ordei
for his commitment coul 1 be prepared
and signed. He has nevei
directly denied the commission
although he has done so by pa
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ettt implication. After his arrest,
he l?roke down in a fit of weeping
and howling, which was repeated
at the station this morning, just
before pu'ting him on the train,
and again after he was lodxed in
the jail. The woman, who scpara
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I ago, altering his infide:itv as the
I ! reason, answered in the most
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with the accused, admited that
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r thai she was enceinte, all of which
t was ret dered tho mote i evoking
by her assUmption[]at t'mcs of a
false modesty.
1 The finding of thn c ?? *? t"*
! jury Was thai the deceased came In
I | his dentil from gunshot wound-tut
t i 1 hn hands of ( Nuuniand f dolo-scn,
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special attention to our
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