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WAR SI Around Frei Editor Atlant i .Journal: While many can tell more than they know, there are many that can't write what they know, ami 1 often ace things that are disgusting to me. I have often seen men that I knew that did not know hut little about the war that could tell a nice flourishing tale about certain battles. Those kind can tell more than they know and there are a great many of that kind of people in the wurld. I shall attempt in my scattering way to give one of many of what I cousider my close calls. While camped below Richmond, Ya., in thc direction of Fredericksburg, our regiment, with thc 2d South Caro lina Hilles and others, tried to locate the Van kees. Lieut. Col. Logan was in command. Ho was Mart. Gary's lieutenant colonel ol' cavalry. Our brigade was infantry. After crossing over the breastworks where we had been camped for several weeks, thc entire force was deployed as skirmish ers as stated, with Col. Logan in com mand. With quite a line of skirmish ers, wc started down what was called the Bottoms Bridge Road. My com pany, (I,) Palmetto Sharpshooters, was on the right of the linc. Off we .started, right through woods, swamps, brush, over logs for a mile or two. When I spied a little opening I said, "Look out, boys, we will find them directly." When we reached it, it w.?s a small patch of two or three acres w,\\ some large apple trees andr, r-.i,all cabin. It was my lot to enter near the centre of the patch. As I fully entered it at the opposite side I spied a blue coat jump across a little ditch and attempt to secrete himself behind some small bushes. Just in front of me was a rail pen about as high as my head. Just at this moment the line was ordered to halt, but I ran to the rail pen in front of me and dropped upon my knees. I hadn't hardly got still until the Yank cut down on me and struck a rail just in front of me, filling my faco and eyes full of litter. I rubbed it out the best I could and tried my luck 350 or 400 yards. At thc crack of my gun I saw thc dust risc just io my right. I says to myself you are my meat if you remain there till I get loaded, and that was awful quick. Just at this juncture he threw up his handkerchief as though ho was surrendered. I hol lowed at him and told him to come in, but he did not, but bang went his gun and jumped up and ran a few paces, fell into a small wash in an old field and oommenoed loading his gun, and as he elevated himself a little I cut down on him, sticking him in the hip, the ball lodging near the kidneys. The boys went and got him and took him back to oamp and wanted me to go and see him, but I never went, and that's all the man that I know that I killed, but if I did not kill many I missed my aim many times, for I was in nearly all the battles fought in Vir ginia except when I was out, and that was threo times, that I was ab sent, wounded. I went among thc first and stayed until the last. Our regulars opened the first Manassas with Wheat's Zouaves, from New Or leans, and one company of cavalry * from Loudon County, Virginia. There's where I saw Tty firstshell and blue coat. I have many more close calls that I may speak of later. Pr. G. W. Boroughs, Company I, Palmetto Sharpshooters, Jenkins's Brigade, South Carolina V. P. S. If any of my regulars see this, would like to hear from you. Mory of Tige Anderson's Brigade. I ace from your valuable paper refer ences io the war scenes that are inter esting to mc. I will give you one that may be interesting to other old vets. It looks a little smoky, neverthe less it is the truth. We, Anderson's (Old Tige) was on the south side of the James River, near the Seven Pines battlefield, from the Darbytown road to the Williams burg road we had a field battery on each road. The Yacks oharged us near the Darbytown road through an open field near a mile through. Our artillery opened on them; also the musketry. We literally strewed the field with dead and wounded Yank-.. They come within abont 100 yards of our works, lyin;; down in an old road running parallel with our linc in j.'iaces. The old road was depressed three or fear feet, in others it was with the surface. Hood's brigade was on our left io the direction of the Ch'Tkahouiiny creek. Thcro was no Yank? to their froot and they were play lu/ "Dixie" all the while.we were fighting. After the smoke cleared off we saw die Yanks lying in the road. John L?verait, Powell Daniels and myself jumped over our works and / commenced uri J j down tho line in the WIES. iericksburg. old road. Twelve or fifteen of Hood's men joined us. Tho Yanks would throw up their hats and say "D^n't shoot, we will surrender" We drove them back to our lines as we came to them. I ran upon a colonel of an In diana regiment who jumped up and jerked out his sword and told his men to get up aud go to fighting; that it wan a disgrace to their Hag and eouu try to surrender to a handful of men in any such way. I then and there poked my Whitfield rifle pretty close to Iiis bread basket and told him to drop that sword or I would make a daylight hole through him in ?hort order. Fie very reluctantly complied with my modest request and wcut back to our lines. His name was Haley and j tin; finest looking man I ever saw. Ile I was at least six feet four inches. I I not his flag, what there wa.? '.eft of it. It was shut into tatters. It was not larger than a handkerchief and the stuff was about two feet long. If this brave, (?ne looking officer should hap pen to see this, I would be glad to hear from him. John Leverott gota New York stand of colors. I think it was the f)4tb. The colonel told nie that thc ladies of the city of New York presented it to him aud it cost $."H)0. I belonged to company K, 11th Georgia. I was on thc skirmish line during thc war. Some one that was in this little affair published in The Weekly Constitu tion asking if there was any of them alive. I answered his letter, stating that myself, Daniels and Leverett of company K, 11th Georgia, lived in Houston County. Since then Daniels has died. We took in all that day, 75U prison ers and I do not know the number killed, but they wero piled into the cut in the road, where they surrender ed. They were four or fivo deep and nuout 100 yards long. They were piled on top of each other like bed dine sugar cane. When I first started to taking them in I passed an officer who was wound ed between thc elbow and shoulder and the blood spurting from a severed artery, lie gave the word of distress of a Master Mason, thc ouly time I .?vcr heard it given outside of a lodge. I wont to his rescue. I took my hand kerchief and corded his arm and sent him to our surgeon. Poor fellow, I never saw him again and do not know whether he lived or died.-W. D. Pierce, in Atlanta Journal. P. S.-This capture occurred in Oc tober, ' .'04 A Sword With a History. \ i Tuesday of this we k, Dr. J. D. ] Curetou was made happy by the return 1 of what was to him a long lost friend j -an old sword that he wore during the war. It has a unique history, and 1 if it could, it would relato history 1 more vividly than we caa hope to por- * tray. ' This iuterestiug old relio has played its active part in two wars-?he Mexi can and the Civil. It belonged to ' Col. Dunavaut, who carried it through 1 thc Mexioan war. It then came into possession of W. B. Crate, of Wiuns boro, who theu gavo it to Dr. Cureton when he became Lieutenant. Shortly after this Dr. C. was promoted Cap taiu of Co. G, Sixth S. C. Infantry. During the terrible battle of Second Maoasses thc scabbard was cut in twain by a shell. Dr. Cureton stopped to pick up the piece of shattered scab bard and fell a little behind his Co. Thc unionists were slowly retreating and oue shrewd Yankee- concluded to secrete himself in a ditch and wait till thc Confederates passed, and then kill the commanding^officer of the reg iment, who was Col. Steadman. Just as he raised his gun lo tiro Dr. Cure tou turtled and almost severed his head from the body with this same sword. The scabbard was pierced by a min nie ball in the battle of Seven Pines and glanced by another, and the owner still lives to tell the story. Shortly after thia Dr. Cureton was taken seriously ill with pneumonia, and was furloughed at the home of Joseph Hager in Maryland iu charge of J. Michael Brice, one of his Lieu tenants. While thus critically ill, the Yaukces came upon Dr. Cureton and seeing his critical condition, left him unmolested. Before their approach, however, Mrs. Hager raised ono of the planks in the floor and deposited un der the house tho interesting relio of our story to prevent the Yankees from falling into possession of it. When they came up th? y entered the room in which Dr. Cureton lay, and saw that it wonld be a r"od place for some of their wounded number. Dr. was unoonsoionsof ..hat was going on about him, and when he awoke he I found 4 or 5 wounded Yankees as room i mates. After the close ol the war Dr. Cure ton tried in vain to recover the lost sword. Ile was unable to get into communication with Mr. Hager. The reason is clear now, for Mr. Hager moved to Little Rock, Ark., just after the close of the war, carrying the old sword with him as well as one that be longed to Dr. Brice. When the Dallas Reunion was held, Mr. Hager concluded to attend. While there he met Mr. E. B. Mobley, of Fairfield, and asked him if he knew Dr. Brice and Capt. Cureton, of Fair field, as he had two swords belonging to these gentlemen which he would be glad to restore to them. When Mr. Mobley returned he let the discovery be known, and the nieces of Mr. Brice who are at Winthrop College began to communicate with Mr. Hager, with the result that thc swords were re turned to South Carolina and were con spicuous at a D. A. K. Entertainment given at Winthrop not a great while ago. Seeing a brief account of the entertainment in one of the papers which contained a description of Dr. Cureton'a sword enabled him to com municate with the authorities at Win throp College and recover his long lost relic, which is now a treasure be cause of its history. - Pickona Jour nal. Cannon's Boar Restored a Mau. "There was one unlooked for result from the first battle of Bull Run," re marked an old resident to a Star re porter in recalling war-time memories, "no less than the restoration of a pa tient at St. Elizabeth's to his reason, enabling him to resume his duties as a military officer. He subsequently served to the close of the war. I knew thc officer well, for he roomed io my neighborhood not far from the Ebbitt house before he was sent over to the insane asylum. A year before the war his health having become broken while serving at an isolated post, he eame here to visit a brother and took rooms in his brother's house. On his return from a short visit tu his old home iu the South it was seen that his reason was un hinged. Ile was accordingly sent to thc asylum. There he remained until the eventful 21st of July, 1861. That afternoon while the attendants were walking the patients in the ground the souud of the guus reached the grounds and attracted universal no Lice. To the little group of which :his afflicted officer was a member the aurse explaiued that the reports were ?auaed by artillery practice, but the officer insisted that he heard in each report a call for his services which he would give them before long. That sight he was not to be found aud his jap being picked up close to the wall, t was conjectured that he had scaled ?he barrier. No one knew what course Lie took, how ho crossed the Potomac, ior indeed did they learn any tidings )f him for years. After the dose of ,he war it was ascertained that in tome manner he bad eluded the pick ets after crossing the Potomac and . ad passed into the Confederate lines, binding troops from his State and bo ng . ocognized he was given a commis non and finally reached a colonelcy. Borne of tho officials of the asylum ffhen told this recalled that the man vas not badly afflicted, but only need id excitement to bring his-mental 'acuities into full play." - The distance a farmer lives from Harket is not a question of miles, but >i ?he roads he must travel to reaoh foro. How many hours and how nany horses doos it require to haul a load to market. When thus measured :-en miles of a good, smooth highway ire not as long as a few miles of mud ind stone. A Nkjiiimare Gives point to the fact that excessive or irregular eating disturbs the digestion. Nightmare or night hag bas it's day time correspondence ?in the undue fullness after eating, with the belchings and sour or bitter rising so often experienced after too hasty or too hearty eating. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery curesMyspepsia and other diseases of the stomach and its allied organs of diges tion and nutrition. When these diseases are cured, the whole body shares in the incre&sed strength derived from food properly digested and perfectly assimil ated. "Your 'Golden Medical Discovery* and Dr. Sage'* Catarrh Remedy have been of great benefit to rae." write* (Prof.) Pleasant A. Oliver, of Viola, Fulton Co.. Ark. ?Before I used the above mentioned remedies ray sleep wa? not sound ; digestion bad : a continued feeling of misery. I now feel like a new mau. Any one in need of medical treatment for nasal catarrh contd do no better than to take treatment of Dr. ft. V. M cree. I know his medicines are all right In this class of diseases." Sometimes a dealer tempted by the little more profit paid on the sah: of leas meritorious medicines will offer the cus tomer a substitute as being "just as good" as the ?Discovery." It ia better to. him because it pays batter, but it is not as good for you, if you want thc medicine that bas cured others, and which you believe will cure you. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse the clogged system from accumulated impurities. The Half-Starved Hog. "I can't do anything and I do not suppose you can either; but it does look to me as if the legislature should dc something to abate the dog nui sance. To say nothing of tue per sonal annoyance to farmers and oth ers, it would be almost impossible to calculate the expense to which this country is put in the maictainance of worthless dogs." So spoke Mr. W. E. Gettys, of the Clay Hill neighborhood, on Wednes day. He carno into thc Enquirer office especially to discuss thc dog question, and he was evidently very much in earnest, for like hundreds of others throughout this part of the State, be has been worried and annoyed by worthless curs until further patience with regard to the matter has ceased to be a virtue. "Yes," he continued, "I think something ought to bc done to thin o"t the dogs. Wc have too many. Now don't understand me to be aa enemy to dogs. I'm not. I have a little lice that I think a great deal ot', and I would not like to see it injured, unless it should become a nuisance to my neighbors. But there is no dan ger cf that. I feed my dog and well fed dogs don't harm anybody. It is thc half-starved dog that is such a nuisauce to thc country and so expen sive. "For a great many yearn I have been raising a great many chickens, and every year I have suffered more or less on account of half-starved dogs that suck eggs add cat chickens. Thu year I undertook to raise turkeys and increase my flock of guineas. I know certainly of having lost at least 100 turkey eggs on account of dogs, and I have no idea that my losses of guinea eggs would foot up less than ten doz en. Besides this, any number of hen eggs have gone the same way, and also some chickens. "Poison or shoot the dogs? Why you know that would never do. Dogs are property and have the proteotion of the law. Of course if I would catch a dog io the aot of destroying eggs and kill it, it is probable that the owner would say nothing. I would not care much what he said. But, all the same, under such circumstances, or at least if I should kill the dog be fore he committed the act, I would be liable to prosecution, and if the owner could make it appear that the dog was worth anything, I would have to pay. And that is hard. "But leaving all of this out of the question, there are too many dogs. It is too easy to own a dog. Lots of people own dogs who are not able to -. - ? i - mmm ?-i^ own thom, and here comes tho trouble. You think all the dogs in the country arc returned for taxation? Not by 50 per cent., hardly. Why? Well, I can't give you all the reasons; but 1 can tell you some of them. Some dog owners simply do not make returns. Then again, many dogs are owned by negro children, and are not claimed by the fathers of the ohildren. Ask the fathers who feed the dogs, and they are pretty apt to tell you 'nobody.' That in a sense is a faot; but in an other sense it is a long way from the fact. Those of us farmers ' y JIG try to raise chickens, turkeys, sheep, etc., feed them. These are the kind of dogs that kill sheep and suok eggs. They live off the very fat of the land, and each year cost the neighbors an amount equal to the value of the finest bird dog in the country. "I hardly think that there are a great many farmers who will disagree with me in my statements. I am sure there will be no disagreement with me on thc part of any farmer who tries to have chickens and eggs. If any of these have experiences different from minc, they are certainly fortunate. "Now I can think of only one rea sonably satisfactory remedy for the situation. 1 have discussed the mat ter with numerous people-farmers, business men and others-and all agree on the idea that something should be done. As the best thing in sight we have arrived at the conclusion that it would be well if tho General Assembly would pass an Act providing for the levy of a tax of $1.00 a head on all dogs. Let it be arranged so that on the payment of $1.00, the county will issue a collar and tag good for one year. Then let the law go further and offer, under proper conditions and safe-guards, a bonus of $1 a head for ! every unlicensed dog that may be killed by the public" The reporter acquiesced with Mr. G et ty s in everything that was said; but went on to remark that the gen eral assembly had considered some kind of a proposed dog act at every session since the war, and had never had the manhood to enact such a law yet. "Yes, that may be true," repli?e Mr. Getty?; "but I believe that pub lie sentiment oan yet be aroused on the subject sufficiently to accomplish something. 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